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Show 10 ADVANCE li PRI6ES0F COAL A story printed in Salt Iakc papers to the effect that neither a strike among the employe? of" the mines in Wyoming coal folds, or the granting of a demand for a 25 per cent raMe in wages, would necessitate a 75c advance ad-vance In the price of fuel is denied by Ocden coal dealers II. C. Mar-ob-Mit. engineer for the Wyoming Coal company declares that no trouble is expected, although the operators aud miners have been in conference since Juno to como to some agreement a-i to the schedule of wages for the men. Dealers in coal profess ignorance of any such situation and anticipate no increase in prices. Considerable d'filculty will be experienced expe-rienced in getting both parlies to rgree on the new scale, the miners asking a 10 per cent increase. Mr. MarchaDt, who is in a position to r.now the ins and outs of the controversy, contro-versy, asserts that the men will con-t'nne con-t'nne to work, pend'ng the signing of the new contracts; that there will bo no strike, but that he does not be-Hove be-Hove that the companies operating tho mines will grant tho 10 per cent advance. ad-vance. During the coal famine two winters ago, when miners were hard to pet and coal was exceedingly scarce, the miners inhisted on a contract which the operators were perforce compelled to acrept. The contract was to lust two years Yesterday Is the last day of that contrpct, and it has been made known that the miners demand an increase' in-crease' in pay over the old schedule. All the local coal officers have received re-ceived notice of the demand and a. committee from the dial mine operators opera-tors In Wyoming is now, and has been for several days In session with a committee from the Miners association. associa-tion. In an attempt to settle the question. ques-tion. The miners are demanding an Increase In-crease ranging It Is said from 10 to 10 per cent for the different varieties of coal mined. This the operators refuse re-fuse to grant, but at the same time, assure us that the matter will be settled without nny serious results; that there will only be the usual winter win-ter advance of 25 cents but that even this is not as yet contemplated i |