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Show Salt Lake People Are to Get Coal At Actual Cost SALT LAKE, April 10 Plans for the formation of a company to mine and sell coal to consumers of this city at cost were discussed last night at the mis and county building. F. J. Ueon- Jard presided oe the meeting and spoke, in part, as follows; "For $100,000 the citizens of Salt Lake City could secure 320 acres of ! coal land at Spring Creek canyon, near Castlegate, Utah, which is acknow- j ledged by experts to average 12,000 (nn of coal to tho acre-foot This means that if the coal was two feet jdeep there would be 24,000 tons to the acre. The average depth of this coal bed is thirty feet. It is computed that if the city consumed 500.0u0 or' I 600,000 tons per year there would be! j enough to last for ear 'The initial cost of $100,000 would, not only buy the coal land, but It would pay the cost of building a rail-I road to the claim, open up the ground and pay the cost of building the tipple "Iu Missouri, slack coal is mined and hauled to St. Loula for $1.85 per ton Recently they raised the price, 5 cents per ton. and the result wag a , near-riot Here the same coal sels forj $5 per ton. 'The city cannot, under the present pres-ent laws, mine and sell coal, but we j can form a stock company which will do so for the consumer. I believe thai , we ousht to insert a proviso Ji the, constitution of the company we form so that the city, at any time it is legally le-gally equipped to mine and handle coal can buy the stock at par value " The following were appointed to J meet next Monday at 8 p m at the Cullen hotel to lay further plans for, the formation of a -operative coal' mining company: Mr Leonard, W. c f A. Visaing, secretary, J. P. Morris. G ! L. Sneff, L P. Larsen, A White and! W. J Dooley. rr |