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Show EVIDENCE OF , BIG COAL COMBINE Soft coal costs $G 23 a ton at retail in Salt Lake City. Tho Commercial club traffic bureau and some others think this Is too much. The bureau yesterday filed with tho secretary of state information tending to show that the Union Pacific railroad and the Union Pacific Coal company and the Rio Grande railroad and the Utah Fuel company have entered Into a combine to keep up prices, the penalty for which, under the Utah statutes, would be forfeiture of tho charters of the two coal companies. Tho next step will be tho submission submis-sion of the evidence to the attorney general by the secretary, of state. |