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Show PROFITS .-MADE BY THE III DEALERS WEBER CLUB COMMITTEE COMPLETES ITS INVESTIGATION INVESTIGA-TION AND RENDERS A REPORT TO PRESIDENT HEYWOOD. vcmber 25, wo beg to remain, YourB vtry truly, "WILLIAM CRAIG, "GEO. H. MAT SON, "FRANK J. STEVKNS, '"Committee." ' As wtated yesterday, the comuiltteo was not given the legal authority to 1 carry Its investigation beyend the re-, re-, tail dealers, and for this reason the Jn.dy has completed Its work and will Le discharged by President Hcywood iollowing his official acceptance of tho report. Claiming that the people of this city are being literally crucified on the cross of high prices by the public service corpora. ions which control the ci al output of the Jntei moantaiu country, coun-try, the Weber club committee, r pointed to Investigate the alleged coal combine, made its report ic President A. R. HeywooJ last evening and recommended rec-ommended that the local urbanization exert its Influence toward the securing secur-ing of a railroad and public utility commission. No Combine Among Dealers. Primar.ly the Investigating body discovered only this: That there la no combine or organization of any land whatsoever among the retail dca'.ers of Ogden and that their profits are not excessive.. The report outlines in no unmistakable terms that the mine owners are charging an excessive price for their product, mid that the railroads are charging excessive freight rates. Profits on Coal. According to tne Investigators, local coal dealers realize a profit of from 10 to 90 cents per ton on Wyoming coal; Cr. cents per ton on Castle Gate lump coal, and 65 to 00 cents per ton on Castle Gate nut coal. These facts were ascertained after examining a dozen retail dealers of this city. The complete report of the committee commit-tee as submitted to President Hey-wood Hey-wood last evening, following a long afternoon session, Is os follows: The Committee's Report. "Ogden. Utah. Dee. 1, 1910. "A. R, Heywood, President Weber Club. "Dear Sir: Your committee appointed ap-pointed to investigate the high price or coal lu Ogden City respectfully report re-port as follows: "Wc requested nearly all of our local coal dealers to appear before the committee and they came willingly willing-ly and answered all questions asked, and from such Information we llud that the present price of coal at the mines on the .cats is as follows; All of the Wyoming, Rock Springs, Dia-mondville Dia-mondville and Kemmerer lump anil nut coal, $3 per ton, and tho Utah "Castle Gate" lump at $2.75 and nut M $2 50 per ton. The railroad rates are $175 from Castle Gate, Utah-Rock Utah-Rock Springs, Kemmerer and Dia-mondvllle. Dia-mondvllle. Wyoming, per ton. "We find that coal Is being sold by the retail dealers at from $0.00 to $6.60 for Rock Springs. Diamondville end Kemmerer for lump and nut, and the Castle Gate lump at $6 and the Castle Gate nut at from $5.75 1o $f We find that the prico one year ago was $5.75, except during a part of the winter, when it was $5.50 for all kinds of lump and nut coal. Tho teamsters charge seventy five cents per ton in ton lots or over, and for less than half a ton 50 cents for delivering the coal, and It costs 10c per ton for the unloading from the car, making the cost of lump and nut Wyoming coal as follows: On the cars at tho mines $3.00 I rcight , 1.75 Drayage 75 Unloading from the cars 10 a $3. CO Selling for, from $6.00 to C.50 Castle Gale lump coal J Cm the cars at the mines $2.75 j Fie ght 1.75 Drayj'se 75 Unloading from the cars 10 $5.35 Selling for 6,00 I Castle Gale nut coal J On tho cars at the mines $2. GO 1 Freight 1.75 Drayage 75 Unloading from the cars....... .10 $5.10 Selling for, from $5.75 to C 00 "We are satisfied that the local coal dealers of Ogden are not in any trust ci combination to control or make uniform prices on coal in the city, and that the price of coal was ad-' vanced by the Wyoming producers 50 cents a ton ou the 15th of October, 1010. and by the Utah Fuel company on the 20th of October, 1910. "We are satisfied that on the first oi November there was over ten thousand thou-sand tons of storage coal on hand which cot the dealers 75 cents per ton less than it could be laid down In their yards for now, being the 25 CenU allowed by the railroads on storage coal and the F.O ceuts' advance made by the producers about the last of October. 'Owing to slack aud short weights we do not consider the profit unreasonable, unrea-sonable, but on account of the large a:nount or storage coal on hand at the lower price, we recommend that a reduction re-duction of 25 cents per ton be allowed for cash sales. It appearlug that tho cost or coal Is excessive at the mines and that the railroad rates are much too high, wo recommend that the Weber We-ber club exert Its Influence with our Weber county leglxlators to work for a railroad and public utility commission commis-sion to care for the Interests of the people and to protect them from excessive ex-cessive charges, as at present the people have no tribuual to go to with thc-lr complaints, but have to take what they can get uy way of relief from the public serving corporations. Believing that tho ntjove figures furnished fur-nished answers your request of No- |