Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-13 | Page 12 | Lion Coal Co. Gives up Yards

LION COAL CO. GIVES UP YARDS Ellis Fuel Company Takes Over Retail Business of Ogden Operators Rstall coal yards of the Lion Cosl i c-mpany of Ogden will be discontinued discon-tinued immediately, according to an .i nnounrement made today by James T. Hill, general (sales manager. The continued Increase In the wholesale business of th company Is given as the reason for the abandonment of I the retail yards The relall yard In Ogden will be known In the future uh the Kills Fuel company with Wallace fiiis, former chemist at the Amalgamated Sugar COfnpanj general manager. Mi Illll t.'d.n Issued the following statement with leganl to the change In the policy of the company; "The Dion Co;i I company, operating mines in the Rock Springs district of southern Wyoming, and In the ar-bon ar-bon cotintv district of I'tah, with an annual production of approximately "00 000 tons, ha adopted the policy of confining their efforts to the pro-duction pro-duction and wholesale distribution of coal onl ' At one time th Dion Coal company com-pany opeiated a chain of 2.1 retail iij mruuKiioui uorciieiii i lan jcikii I sout heastern Idaho The transfer of 'the Ogden yard U the Kllr. Fuel company com-pany completes he sale of all I tah ' yards. The Ogden yard wa established in ithe spring of 1 V 1 1 l he tonnage handled 1' the Ogden urd durlna 11920-1921 classed it as one of the largest retail yards tn cigden. Patrons j of the Dion Coal coinpan will still be able to obtain the same coal from the j . Kllis l-'ue conipanj-. "The Lion Coal company's reason for retiring from the retail business is on account of its Increasing whole-ale whole-ale business, and the further fact I that the tonnage of the retail yards was increasing and consequently requiring re-quiring more of our time and Btten-! Btten-! tion. and on account of the fact thai 'the wholesale and retail distribution of coal are separate and distinct the management of the l.ion Coal company com-pany has adopted tits policy as afore-I afore-I mentioned that of confining our ef- forts solely to the production and wholesale distribution of coal." oo I