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Show COAL SHORTAGE ! LOOMS IF STRIKE , KEEPS UP, REPORT Prediction that the stocks of many retail coal dealers in Og- j den will be exhausted by Saturday Satur-day because of the stoppage of incoming shipments by the railroad rail-road strike, was made today. "Fortunately," one retailer said, "the demand at this time j j ; is light and arrangements will j ! 1 He made between dealers to di- i ' vide the tonnage on hand in ! j case the strike extends into an-I an-I other week. ' An official of the Utah Fuel ! ; company who made a survey of : the( yards last Tuesday estimat- I ed that 4265 tons, or about t j enough to satisfy the normal de-j de-j mand for two weeks, were on i i hand this data being gathered i' with the aid of J. W. Shepherd, Rio Grande agent, here ! A number of manufacturing j plants in th,c city arc also re-i re-i ported to be near the end of their poal supply. |