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Show GOAL WILL GO HIGHER SLACK IS UP NOW OTHERS SOON M OPERATORS AND MINERS IN- H DITET) WITHOUT FAVOR. H Government Warning That Heavy H Buying at Present Anthracite BBJ Miners are Denied Their Demands BBJ Even in Europo the Situation Is BBJ Critical News from Local Camps. BBfl DottiecXic eonl, lump nml nut sizes, BBJ will advance in Ulnh before the Urst BBBJ iky of Mny. Surli in the nnnoiinee- BBBJ Writ of A. I). I'iersoti, general sale BBBJ iiMwtMr of I lie Ulali FiihI company, BBBJ nt Suit Lake City Inst Monday. Slack BBBJ for rrnnitwrrinl uw went up ywler- BBBj ilny. Tlw advance on dimmlio eonl BBBJ 1mm (tot been decided on. lint xlntk BBB will et hereafter $2.36 nt ihe in no BJBfl InMead of $1.86, with tho same BBB frellit, war tax, delivery and donlers BBB profit applying. According to the BBB operator, slack nml linn been handled BBB nt n Ums it being clnlmed that $1.85 BBB iW txit meet the cost of production. BBB Thin prirt m fixed by tho govern- BBB went and despite tho increased rost BBB of production oKirntorx vero not per- BBB mittml to charge more. With nil re BBB MrietiotM to be removed the operators BBB nniHHinetd that tho new ndvnnccd BBB prirea would k into effect April 1st. BBB Operators ony Hint domosttn eonl BBB mn will be ixnniltcd to imrtiupnto BBB for another month in tho present BBB prtctr. Present price of domestic nnd BBB poMmrienl ewl nt Holt take ( ity BBV nr $8.28 nnd $6.10 tic ton, respec- BBB lively. Domestic eonl Nt tin initio BBB oiMtM n.lN with -W.10 h1iUhJ f..r BBB freight, six cent for vrnr tux, 1 'JJ BBB dray nnd $1.11) dealer profit. BBB Stuek sell nt tho mine for $1.85 BBB. (fixed by government rvgultition), BBB $liK is added for freight, five nnd n BBB hnlf rent for wnr Ihx, seventy-five BBB rents for delivery nnd sixty-five cents BBB dealers' profit. H NO FAVORITES PLAYED IN BBB MATTER OP INDICTMENTS H INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Mnrch 27. BBB The iiaiiim of approximately n bun- BBVj dn.il mid twetity-fivo eonl operators BBB) mill miner in tho stnte of Illinois, BBBJ Indlmin, Ohio mid Western Ponnsyl- BBV vanin, indicted recently by n speoinl BBV federal grand jury here for Alleged BBB violation of the Utver net nnd eon- BBBk splntey section of the federal ciimi- BBBT nal Mnle, were made imblie here to- BBY night by federal official. The inin- BBB era liwlude International President BBB Lewis, Secretary William Oreen, nnd BBB Chif S(titleUn Tollow. The opvr- PBB ntors nsiiifd include Thomns T. Urew- HBH Mer of St. m, cliNinimn of the BBbJ ojwraloni tenlo eoiiiinittwi, Phil IT. HBH I'mihh of Terra llmite, Ind., s)okM- PBVJ hmm for the ojHtrnlom in eonfttrenoo HBH in WMhiiiKton, I). C. jiiKt preeedinc HSH th strike of itiiiiMni last fnll nnd 1 . ! 8. I'wbody of Chieao, one of the HBH ' ltdra mtMiiiK the Illinois operators. HBB Auioiit; tlo not identified ns min- pBVJJ era or opttniUini nre Joiihs Wnffle, PBpJ J secrotury of tho Conl Tntde liurcati of I Torre IlHiite. Ind., It. W. Couffer, J rsproMiitntive of tho rational Conl HBVJ nolntlon, Cliieiipi, mid W. K. J, Field, irosldvnt of tho l'itthlmrn HBBW Coal comHiny, I'ittkbuiv. Tho first HBV four ooiiiiU of tho indictment, brought PBH under tho Lover net, oliHre (jenonil PBH eonspirucy to "limit the facilities PPK for tnunjMirtint,', iiniduotine, supply- PpHi iti(,', storfni; mid denlinc In curtain B. iieoessltios bitumioiius eonl, by ro- PpM1) fusing to mine, will or deliver eonl for PH storage imroM by increoninn mid PH maintaining oxeeoMivo prieoe of eoul PHj by oolllm; nnd euusiiiK strikes rnnont; PPV( mine workera, Mil by ehwtini; down PH minw." PH , Counts five to nine of tho iudiut- PPwt meut eoiitmn sinulai- cluirffo. but nre PBAI liftiuhl on the amendment to tho Iover PpKi not imummhI Oetober '22, 1011), mid PpHl rover the Hriod from tho patuHigu of PHj ' the nmeudment until March 11, 1020, BHl the dnto the indietmunt was mtuni- Ied. Othor eounts tnko nil umlor Miantte heads elinntes iuoliided in , the KMiernl alletrutioiM in tho early PPJj I tjuuiits Mud the eleventh count oitos PP&t .ten overt nets. H Lewis Not Alarwad. H , XBW YOItK, Mwreli ST. John L. PP9 ' I - wit, iiilertMliuital presideut of the PPB i 11 iliuo Wuiicors of Ameriea, PBK tutnwtl among tli eoal oHmiru ami) B Hier imlieted for ntUped iouiion K of tin Ivti uu, ileelNred in n stnte- PBB meut here tonight that "there are no PPM proper grounds," for the iudietment PPjii, of fitiiMwlf or ins oasoeiates. He nd- PP& dod Hint lie does not "fear invontgn- PBH l tion by any court of eoinpetvnt juris. PBH dUttion." Lewis sinil neuspapur re- PBH ports of his indiotmnt uero tho first PBB annouiieomuiit of suoh fiction ho had PPH received, hut that he hud "under- PBm stood that the entire porsonnol of min- PBB era' offloials" wcro to bo named. Tho HB minera off! turn havo nlwuyd conform- Vfl cd to tho law," ho duolnrod, "and VK have adhered to all its precepts so HI ' far as official nets nro concerned. I BMi am confident that when trial of tho H enuaa is held it will result in showing W,. their iuuoeense." -H, Wind Up Convention. HVf fi Tho convention of tho Woetern engi- BHjTf ' neers fof (ho United States bureau of 1 ininea in eUssiort moat of last week at B J, " tho offices of Carl A. Allen, district BBB1 engineer for the liiiroau nt Salt Lake bV;" ' City, cl&sed Inst Saturday when thoic present wont to n photograph cnllery nnd hnd their picture tnkon. Technf-cnl Technf-cnl matters in oonneetion with the work of the bureau look up the bust-nesn bust-nesn hours of the sessions. Snturday night visitors were hosts nt n theater party at tho Salt Lftko in honor of Allen, II. V. Agelon, tho engineer in ehargo of tho Ilnrenii of Minos Car No. 10, nnd Dr. A I Murray, surgeon with Car No. 11. Tho preceding evening even-ing the party wcro guests of Allen and Thomas Vnrloy, station superintendent superin-tendent for the bureau at the University Uni-versity of Utah, nt dinner. COAL CONDITION CAUSES BRITISH GRAVE CONCERN LONDON, Mnrch 27. The morning morn-ing now i papers today take tho gravest grav-est outloook concerning tho coal situation. situ-ation. They dcclnro thnt if the last word has been said n strike with a resultant stoppage of tho entiro in-diistr in-diistr of the country is inevitable. Tho situation nt that, howorrcr, dooi not seem to ho entirety clear, nnd Mino of the ncwip.ipcrs call on the government for fuller informntion. The newspapers opposed to tho government gov-ernment charge that tho administration administra-tion is mishandling the whole coal situation sit-uation nnd is failing to keep faith with tho miners. Tho Koulh Wnlcs men, who nro wild to bo receiving the highest wages, nro necuscd in some quarters of "siwiling" for n fight nnd to be playing their own hnnd ngninst the other miners nnd forcing the pace. ItMcntmcnt against tho government's refusal to nationallro tho mines nlto is exerting considerable influence in tho controversy. The London Times, while charging tho government with part of tho lilnino nnd demanding full inforoin-Hon inforoin-Hon concerning the controversy, contends, con-tends, novorthcloM, that on its merits tho case of tho government is mninly right nnd that of tho inimr.) wrong. Tho newsnaper says tho government's offer to increAse wages not only is ample, but genorous. It remarks that it would ndd mora than twenty million mil-lion imiinds sterling to the nnnunl wngo bill, which must bo borne by the consumer, whilo to concede tho full demands of tho miners would involve nn ndditionnl forty-fivo millions of Kunds. which would bo impossible. Tho Dally Sketch says it has learned learn-ed that Premier Lloyd Ocorgo has do-cided do-cided eventually to conccdo tho miners min-ers their full demnnds, providing they ngrco to rc-estnblish payment nceonl-ing nceonl-ing to tho output. But, tho newspaper adds, tho men htrcnuouily opposo this. COAL PURCHASERS ARE OIVEN TIMELY CAUTION WASHINGTON, D. C, March 20. Tho iireeidtmt' bituminous coal oummtiMioii, which failed to nwrh a unanimous agreement on the bituminous bitumin-ous coal strike issue, sounded n warn, ing to the public jestorday ngnlnM unneeeiMMry coal buying in April, immediately im-mediately after government price ro-dtnctioiiH ro-dtnctioiiH are raised. "In tho matter of purchase and storage of coal," says u statement issued by the com-iiutMtion, com-iiutMtion, "the thing to lie uvolded during lb month of April is a tern-IMirary tern-IMirary peak in prices before It become be-come pottdhle to ifntoek the coal bins of the country. For that mittou tho purchase mid ktorago of coal by tho public should be carried on in Mny, Juno nnd dul), instead of April. The lee unnecessary biuiuewi done In April, the loan chance for u flurry in coal prices." OPPOSE THE DEMANDS OF TnE ANTHRACITE MINERS NKW YORK, March 2fl.-Anthracito mino owners went on record today as opposed to granting the hard coal diggers demnnds for an inorease in wages of nt least 18.3 more tlinu the 25 per cont increase just granted the bituminous miners. Statistics and data to show that tho earnings of the anthracito nnd soft coal workos were on nn "equitable basis" woro introduced intro-duced by the mino owners nt tho ros-sion ros-sion of the sub-committee nppointed b both hide to negotiate a new wage ngrcoment for tho hard coal fields AlthoUKh nil the employ era admitted that tho hard coal workers' wage soalo might not now he as high as that paid tho hituminoim men, they pointed nut thnt tho earnings were "about tho Hfimo" as tho nnthrnoite minera "got in mora working day in a year." AROUND THE LOCAL 0AMP8: PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE England last Saturday lifted (he embargo on ooal to tho United State. l'riw retailor i hne advance! ioal to six dollar a ton lu in n lw day ago it was $5.75 duliv jrod in tho bin. Washington ami Utah produoed 87-1,000 toil of beehive ooko in 1010 a against 611,000 ton tho previous yenr. During tho yonr 1010 n hundoril and twonty-oight exiko oven tho country over were abandoned or 10 robuilt ns to bo classed as new ovens. M. P. Smith, n mining englneor, is a recent nrrivnl at I'neo with headquarter head-quarter nt tho Savoy. Ho i looking lifter eoul proportios in Hinory county and RiipMiMd(y reproscnts big Okla-honm Okla-honm and Wjoming interests. Ho will bo in mid out of hero for tho uexf six weeks or more. Ono of tho reason for tho shortage of open top eoul car is said to bo tho use ot them u automobile car. Each of tho railroads has a supply of auto-mobilo auto-mobilo cars, but these havo been used for grain and other puqwsos, and the open top cor taken over to bo used for transjwrling nutomobilos. Ilnil- (Continued Un Page Klstit ) i GOAt WILL GO HIGHER SLACK 1$ UP NOW OTHERS SOON BBfl rrnnrliutfd ) r in Togc Hit ) BB road official now are rnilcnonnfr to BB ffathtr ii t lie nutmnoliilp car nnd lo BB w tlietn for I lie urHsp for winch BBJ thpy were built BB Tli total on I put of coko produced BvJ in byproduct oons in 1010 was 23,-' BBI 171,000 not ton, a decreaw nit com BBJ pared with 1018 of 8J7.000 ton, or BBI 1.2 par wnt. The of feet of tlio !c-1 BBB eliiM in demand for byproduct cokol BBB tixm production whs largely counter- BBB acted nr 'k completion of mnn nci BBB plants. The rate of production wns BBB higher during January, Kcbninn nml BBB Marsh iban during the remainder of BBB Hi year. BBB The Utah Coal and Coke rnmpnn BBB thrmijrh Duncan MacVichic, its man BBB nirer, baa rciHtrted to the stale lionrd BBB nf eqnalisatlnn tlmt the alue of tit BBfl real eatate lmbling in Carlton r 'lints flBJ i $306,9115, while surveyors' outfit' BBfl and all other property are nlucd nt BBfl KM. The eoMMn stales thnt It Bfla tin made preiarationn for cstm c BBfl development, iiiclitiluiK it branch lino BBfl from tne Denter nnd Rio Orandc near BBfl Piwayslde. |