Show daiev ov lj l J COAL A better in asien and salt lale for several days past ogden us well aa sat lake is bufi tring from a coal famine iron of business aa well as families complain com lain that the supply of H not half enough to ordera for the black diamond commo commodity lity many of the si loong in liis city are reduced to great straits to procure fuel oliue it if all that other business hours are not necessarily so many each day can do to keep up the nor essary amount of warmth in their establishments aa air aa can be lea tho local agent here mr millis is not to blame as that aleman divides up the small amount of coal received each day in quant ties not exceeding ft on o each customer io order that as ruamy us possible can bo accommodated during the present cold apell the cause of this fin tine la to ninny cassea but the most plausible reason as ar as we can learn i that i to work the coal mines besides the large number of laborers new engaged from all parts of utah on the denver and rio grande railroad a great many hands who al this time of year heretofore were out of cm have utah eastern railroad company this latter enterprise promised prom isea to be a great benefit to salt like city when completed as a great deal coal will come over that line nd it is to be hoped that the U P will then be relieved of a groat deal of the of furnishing not only the capital OH with this useful article in order to br ng about this mist deniable den rable object the good people of silt S lake have numerously signed the following be presented to the council of that city this evening and which no doubt will be unanimously adopted by that body the petition reads as follows 70 the the auyor and awn of salt lake aty gentlemen we the citizens and taxpayers of salt lake city respectfully ask your honorable body to assist by the purchase of stock of the utah eastern company in completing their road to salt lake city at the earliest poss biblo date and in support of tho request we present tue following reasons to wit First This company has been ins augu rated not as a private speculation but with a view to have the control it and has for its object the furnishing of the inhabitants of salt litie city and neighborhood a steady cheap and continuous supply of coal at em prices and of better quality than hao heretofore teen supplied bup plied to abis ma second to prevent the recurrence froal famines and to furnish a remedy for the i adequacy of the which hab hitherto of toiler from Cu alville and it is con execl fd tint by cal ditl b delivered at kirn balls at h rates that teamsters ann cnn haul it in tn he city with abr compete market rates fourth one of the advantages to be ruined by thia bom road is the on the price of fuel per ton to the con nd ahn buin of mony mon y for a burp foreign chih now lands leaves t is territory fur fifth ve awn the coal and we chii furnish the labor to extract it and if we own the of transportation we can aavo in the territory a quarter of a million of dollars for circulation and also thus afford one opportunity of stopping the weak minded policy now in sending our money out of the territory to purchase the products build of and kiy up other parts of we therefore ask your honorable body to take into consideration the worth of 01 purchasing the utah capital stock of the eastern railroad BO much thereof company or as in your judgment the exigency of the demands and the peoples nee Is tho circumstances of city admit bound and as in duty pray ac your petitioners petition ers will ever |