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Show Zi WOULD RAVE ITS OWN GOAL MINE NOW tONMDMUMI PHOPOS1TION TO ItUY PHOPKHTV. IxK-ntlon Huppoecl lo Ik' Somewhere? In Carbon County WlUiln Uracil or Um Denver and IHo Ornnelc, Hut Persons Making Offer Aro Hctlcvnt Until All Details Arc Completed. That Bait I-ike fit) will acquire a valuable tract of coal land In Utah, establish n municipal coal)nrd and be In a position to supply fuel to tltlxens at n greutl) reduced cost wns the Intimation In-timation given by Ma) or W Mont Ferr) following nn executive session of the 7nt city commission n few da)ie ago Although the meeting was held behind closed doors nnd the tentative plans fur the purchase and operation or the coal Meld held strictly confidential. confi-dential. Major Ferry admitted after tho session that ever) thing points fa-vorabl) fa-vorabl) to the city's owning and operating op-erating Its own coal mine nnd fuel yard before the advent of cold weather wea-ther next fall Fred J l.conard, president of the I consumers' league ami representing an organization of business men, ad-dtessed ad-dtessed the commission In exeuutlve session Leonard told the commission several months ago thnl ho had several sev-eral hundred litres ut valuable coal land with h the city c until inquire nnd operate for u nominal sum Blnrc Hint time, according to lonnrd, special spe-cial Investigators have been working on the scheme and have reported favorably fa-vorably on the possibilities of (he field. The commission agreed to cooperate co-operate with leonnrd and lend Its financial fin-ancial support to the silicon If round practicable. Although the commissioners are reticent to discuss what definite action ac-tion was taken. It Is understood that lxonnrd presetted fnets and figures regarding Hit- scheme which were fa-vorabl) fa-vorabl) received b) the commission It Is understood ulwi that the city at-tome) at-tome) has bent appointed lo re pre-sett pre-sett the rlty In the negotiations toward to-ward the acquisition of tin laud l.riinurd said that uigotlntlons art ul-rend) ul-rend) under way and that the mutter of a inutile Ipal coal mine and market ate prat tit ally settbd The clt) Is nt prevent financial!) able lo float the proposition nnd present pres-ent Indications alt Hint we will huve both a mini ami inarki t In fore in xt wlnttr, suit! Mn)or Ferr) after tin couferente We are not at llbt rt) to ilieiusN tin mutter In tit lull at this time us some phaes of the proposl Hon are still tentative MINI HM I.CUIMI IIIIIll Milt iiirrri'ii pay o tin: cos"i II K lwls gi urrill tllHlinger of Hie Btieudurd Coal tolllpati) propt riles, sa)M miners ure leaving the Carbon fit Ids ut this lime In large uumtars anil huve been for months During Februar) Klnndardvllle best more than fort), who went to the shipbuilding plants nn the renest, pre fe rrlug tin prtwpet t of a stead) six dollars a da) to the average Hint dollar pt r working work-ing da) mid the possible flftiin tlul hers or more eueli working tlii that the) receive In the Utah rem! fields win re, hnwtvir the number of Idb du)s greull) cutM down Hie aggregate pa) loll 'These men, l,ewl fenrs will lemilti on Hit toast so long ns stood) work Is offered Hun The) etinnnt be n placed Mitlsfiietorll) by in vv In-It.r In-It.r fot mining Is u skilled occupation and one In w tilth one man b) care lessiiMSs or Ignorant e can plate In J. opart!) the I Inch of five hundred For the reason of the car shortage whbh he sa)s will start l Mil) 1st and the labor shortage Lewi sa)s the toil) wit) In with It the ttrrltor) trlbutar) to the Utah mines ctm Ih sill piled with fuel Is b) kit ping next winters suppl) t omlng nil uoxt summer sum-mer JOHN IL laUhON IIIIMIS 'I UK M'.W VI IN HI th" I MON DKNVKIt, Colo, Morch ! The ex-ecutlve ex-ecutlve council of the new I) orgunlzid Independent Union or Mine Worker or America closed Its first meeting here late todu) uftrr John It liwson hud been chosen president and H U Doyle secretary and treasurer until u regular election cuu be held The new union was formed b) former for-mer members of District No 16, United Uni-ted Mine Workers or America, at u convention held last week ut Pueblo, Colo, because or illswitlnfactlou with the method or conducting elections held b) the United Mine Workers lit whkh 1-ewson fulled to be ebctetl district dis-trict president l.iwson, who Is president or the Colorado Htate Federation ot l-ibor, ruslgntd elective Murch 16th, lo head the new union It wns uuiiounied b) tlie executive committee thut u number num-ber of local unions In Colorado hud been given rhurtrrs b) tltt new or-gnnlxatloti or-gnnlxatloti lnsectloii Is Ordered WAHIIIMITON, D C. Mure h Numerous complaints during the last winter of the poor quullt) of ooal furnished fur-nished for heating houses has resulted result-ed In a nationwide Inspection s)stem at the mines h the fuel administration administra-tion The order becomes effective Murch lltlt The Inspectors 'III puss upon ull conl, whteher In railroad cars or nut, and will huve uuthorit) to reject Impure Im-pure coal on approvul of the district fuel udmlnlstralor Whin Impart coal Is allowed to pass b) the fuel ud-niluistrutor ud-niluistrutor u deduction or flft) cents n ton will be made ijirly Hiiylng 1'ncetl Karly purchuse of coal this year b) the dealer and consumer will save the (Continued on page eight.) -I ZHH WOULD NAVE ITS OWN GOAL I MINE wlH (Continued from page, six.) llVI fllvl situation, It I asserted ll) 11 It ljflH IrfitvU, gem nil mmniirr nr the Stand- Ml nril Cum I rompnuy's mints, (trowing ftHffi Hi-nrrlty of mil mine labor inn) ox HH pectetl iHir stmrtiigts will crtnto n fiul JUC famine next winter, iicmrdlng to ipH lMls, If supplies ur mil getienill) H lint In id ever) niinrtiinlly during H Ihe siimnitr month. At least hi says, . HO "" undesirable eonl Kltualliiii ilurliiK JM nxt wlntir mm be ver) target) itverl Avail "' ''' l"l,nm,'r pureliiiseH nf fin I A fe iuill trrtnlnty Hint nn li tlepttided iiimiii, J; HH wii, I that nail Mill nut eome & H down lii price Tin present liu reused &. j99! I'Mir. II In asserted. Id eaten up liy !- MfflHH valient wagt to coal inlnu mid other FjJH lulir, IIM Will nn III ItdVUIIIIll lOstS of KUfjH np riillim tif mines through Inrreasid IMmoI prlrvH of nil materials iimiI |