Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-23
SHORT LINE MAY
SOON HAUL WOOD.
Figuring on Relieving the Fuel
Famine With Carloads of
Corded Timber.
COAL MINERS TO CELEBRATE.
Expected that Little or no Coal VIII
BE Dug Between Christmas
And New Year.

The coal dlggers in the camps Of Utah
and Wyoming are going to work tomor-
row all day in order that they can lay
OFF for Christmas. Past experience
teaches that II takes the miners from
five days to week to regain their nor
NAL condition after Christmas 1ollif-
cation, so It Is on the schedule that the
real pinch for coal will be felt through
out the country during the first week OF
January.
Officials OF the various coal companies
are personally on the ground onerlng
inducements for the men TO work anu
they are also sending ont right ana LETT
for more miners to relieve the situation,
which Is becoming critical.
RAILROADS NOT 40 BLAME.
The story that has been In circulation
for some time that the railroads are IN
measure responsible for the existing
shortage owing TO the lack OF motive
power and cars proves on investigation
10 We canard. Win the exception or
about three weeks In october and early
November there has been no famine
Of cars on the contrary both the ore
gon Short Line and the Rio Grande
Western nave been promptly hauling
all the available coal delivered at the
mines.
General Superintendent f. Bucking-
ham OF the oregon Short Line this
morning stated that he would be only
too glad to be allowed to haul $50 more
carloads of coal every day and would
take care OF them. but the mines abso-
lutely cannot deliver more than they
are at present under existing conditions
There Ia coal enough TO supply west
ern America In Carbon and Iron coun-
ties and Utah and western wyoming
The trouble Is that there are not enough
miners and the country has outgrown
the present available supply
WOOD AT SWITCHING RATE
In order that there may not be any
great distress In the matter OF fuei;
General Freight Agent j. A. Reeves oi
tho Oregon Short Line has instructor
his assistant, Mr.. Plaisted, to invest.
unte the wood situation, 1t Is proposed
that should the worst come to'the worr
that the Oregon Short Line VIII begin
hauling carloads of wood at rates WINCH
will be practically switching charges
Even with this relief wood VIII De Twice
as expensive as coal. A carload oil Wooi
would represent about 10 cords. III tno
nominal rate OF $40 q car were pun ~
incl would still be decidedly high, but
the average householder would get
splendid exercise morning and evening
with an axe
SHUT DOWN ON THEM.
The short Line and Rio Grande have
| ahsn,utely shut down on shipping coal
| out OF the state. In the meantime tle
| General freight agents of both systems
are belng flooded with kilograms from
| Rntte Denver, Portland and San Fran
| cisco for relief Both the Southern ra-
| cifc and the O, r. Il NJ, VINO IN nleas.
! ure have relied IN the past on Ian
| coal are feeling the pressure anu aie
| frantically wiring for relief Without 'e-
| suit. IA ,h.ra
| arc stories of the motive power or the
| various big roads being Handicapped
for fuel 10 the extent that shipments
| are seriously delayed.
PROBABLY A COAL POET,
In connection with the assertions on
the mart of some dealers that II If the
| fault of the railroads that sufncieht Goa
ia not being delivered q budding poe',
who undoubtedly Is a coal dealer. mas
mailed TO General Freight Agent J. A.
Reeves the following libelous enusiof'
| A coal man went 10 heaven one day,
As sometimes coal men do.
And they gave him job with princeiy
pay, -
OF running a coal train through,
Right across the Styx, with instruc-
lions to haul
From the fiery birthstone bars.
All the railroad men he could recall
But they gave him no cars.
So message was sent to the realm OF
| well,
For the railroad men to be
On watch for his train. and me rang
| with chuckle Of nendish slee,
And the men lined up as they writhed
In pain
| on the fiery birthstone bars,
But when the coal man showed UP with
his train,
Great Scott! lie had no cars
And so through the endless cycle OF
years
The railroad men line up,
With hope dispelled. With groans and
tears
As they dIpiS the bitter cup,
While the coal man makes his run on
time
From the gates Of pearl to the fiery
bars.
And the railroad men In anguish chime.
Hartman, Gould, please send them
| cars"