Show TWO TWO SIDES FOUND I TO FUEL QUESTION Coal Prices May Be Increased S as Result of Fight Between Dealers and Railroads CAR CAR SERVICE INADEQUATE Railroads Railroads on Other Othe Hand Say Coal Coa 1 Men Do Not Provide for Cold Snaps The t. quarrel between the tho o coal dealand dealer deal deal- I ers g er and the railroads s. s with a a. raise f In Ini i tIle the price o of t coal coat n nb one of ot the possibilities has been resumed The con coa coal dealers denIers a assert that their thell supplies o u of f coal are arc growing low an and that the thc they may have to Increase the tho price per per ton tOil j the tho railroads s cannot furnish enough cars to keep up UI with their doI dc- dc I inand Tho railroad officials declare that there aro arc enough cars curs to lo j supply an at ordinary y demand but that the press of oC outer other fi freight eight ht traffic Is such that they cannot add enough h coal cars to the thc coal coni traffic always f to take caro caroo of o tho limb Increased l demand for coal re resulting rc- rc from each cold snap simp They say that the coal dealers areto aro are to blame for Cor any shortage existing or threatening in that thc they did not store coal during tho the warmer warmer warrner spells to be drawn upon at the times of oC sudden demand In tho meantime tho the talk lalk of oC increases in the price of oC coal to consumers consumers con con- sumers is steadily going on Two months ago the first complaint of shortage o of or cars and the inability of oC the railroads to haul enough coal for the tIle Salt snit Lake market upon the part of the local dealers was heard Tho Denver t Rio Grande which was the chief railroad complained of or immediately im Im- mediately adjusted matters b by throwing throwing throw throw- ing Its entire available equipment into the coal carrying traffic and tho the cr cry o of impending shortage o was dropped r With the recent cold spell there ap appeared appeared ap- ap again an uneasiness upon the part of oC the coal dealers who now that the drawing too heavily heavily hen h assert they are II ily upon their reserve supply and that if the railroads cannot put more coal cars Into Use uso between n Salt Lake Lako and the mines the shortage e will become serious and cause serious inconvenIence inconvenience inconvenience I to the consumers available Supply Short Shor I F Almost every even retail coal dealer denier In Salt Lake yesterday esterday declared that the they r. r rere were running short on coal supply and that the railroads were directly ro- ro for or this condition At every coal office however there was no hesitancy hesi hesi- hesitancy tancy In getting the promise of ready read delivery of or any amount of coal up to twenty or thirty tons S. S V. V Derrah assistant general freight rel ht agent ns-ent of tho Denver Rio Grande lines tines sal said yesterday that his road was experiencing no abnormal shortage of coal cars but that this season of the thc year ear always alway brings s to er e every roa road heavy crop traffic and that this called for a a. large percentage percenta c of or orthe Ithe the cars usually used to haul coal f It If coal dealers would take a lesson from their experience o of every year ear said Mr lr Derrah and la lay lacy In a supply o of coal during the summer months that would tide them over o the heavy de demands demands demands de- de mands of th the first cold snaps there would never be an any trouble about I shor shortages ot ut supply or probability n Increase in to prices J. J A. A Reeves general freight agent of the tho Oregon Short lI Line had virtually virtually vir vir- the same Namo to sa say of the tho situation Both admitted that tho the railroads cannot cannot cannot can can- not put us as man many coal cars in service during these moving crop seasons a as asal asal al at other times of or the y year vear ar and that tha coal dealers would always n have C to look Jook for tor just such situations unless they the put In their supply I of ot reserve coal Inthe 1 In Inthe the tho summertime Both officials intimated Inti- Inti mated however that extraordinary efforts ef efforts ef- ef forts Carts would be put forth orth to bring I In all the co coal 1 the mines had orders for forand or and both seemed to believe this could coul be done Jonc for the rest of the winter S S |