The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-14

feet that there is no danger of a coal
famine The yards and docks are well
supplied with. coal. and the present
stock is sufficient to last for a long
| time.
The strike is at the present time con-
fined to the .bituminous coal regions,
and the use of soft Goals is compare
lively limited in this city. Should the
strike spread among the anthracite coal
/ miners there would undoubtedly. be
good cause for alarm One thing in
! favor of the ordinary consumer is that
little coal is required at this season of
the year. OF course the railroad cCmpan-
! les, factories and other large consum-
ers are in a far different position They
use large quantities of coal at all sea-
sons of the year. In this city, how
ever. they are prevented from using
bituminouS coal by law, and conse-
quently the strike as yet has not put
them to any Inconvenience, as II has
in Chicago and other western cities.
Comparatively little bituminous coal is
used in Brooklyn. A few factories there
usevit, as do the trolley roads at their
power houses. A movement has been
started to compel the latter to give up
its use.
The great railroad lines that reach
this city are well stocked with coal at
the present time. The majority of
them now burn anthracite coal in their
passenger locomotives. The bituminous
coal, however. is used almost exclu
sively on freight locomotives
Superintendent Brooks of the Penn
sylvania road said that the railroad
had stock of coal on hand sufficient
to last it a month. The locomotives of
the passenger trains, he declared,
burned anthracite coal almost eXclu-
sively, as did some of the locomotives
=, g. 2 r@e.
come necessary. all the locomotives, in
Guiding those which draw the freight
trains, could burn anthracite coal.
The Pennsylvania is a large carrier
of coal, including the bituminouS Goals.
and should the strike continue it would
feel the loss OF these freights.
Other railroads carrying large guam
titles Of coal are the Philadelphia &
Reading, which runs to Jersey City
over the New Jersey Central tracks;
the Lehigh Valley and Delaware, Lack
awanna & Western.
The, Philadelphia & Reading Coal
company and the Lehigh Valley both
operate coal mines of their own.
All these companies report good sup
plies of coal on hand at the present
:;me.
The Manhattan Elevated Railway
company burns only anthracite coal in |
its engines. consequently it is not af-
fected by the strike. Even the owners
of river craft are not as yet much |
worried, as anthracite coal is almost |
exclusively consumed on the boats of |
all classes.
The time is drawing near for the deal
ers 10 lay in their winter stock of fuel |
and COAL and should the strike continue
it will delay. at least so far as btu
coal is concerned.
director of one of the Ohio soft
coal roads said:
I'VE have evidence from the west
that the soft coal strike is really going
to be the salvation of the transpor-
tation companies of that district. be-
cause it will eventually get the price
Of soft coal to a place where there will
be money in hauling it. 1t may be
called outrageous that soft coal is
selling at 60 cents in East St. Louis.
where it used to sell at 50. The rail-
roads are hauling it at less than a
mill a ton a mile, which does not pay
'or simply the wear and tear of rolling
stock. Everyone is glad that the strike
s so general and has excited such
attention from the pub
ic This very fact will pave the way
o an easier and larger advance in the
price of coal than could otherwise be