The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-23
NOCOAL, NOL|GHI,
OGOEN'S PLIGHT
Breaks in FIume Continue and
Shortage of Fuel Becomes
More Serious.

The coal situation is not the only prob
lem that is confronting the people of Og-
den at the present time They are up
against a somewhat difficult proposition
in the matter of electric lights. OF course
the people can get along much better
without light than without heat but to
he without the former is inconvenient 10
say the least. Ill luck seems to follow
the efforts of the Utah Light q Rail
way company to repair the pipe line run
ming through Ogden canyon to the power
plant about a mile east of the mouth of
the canyon. Since Monday night the
company has been struggling with
breaks that have occurred along the
fiume. As soon as they could repair one
break another would follow. Yesterday
the second break which occurred near the
dam was patched up and the water was
turned into the pipe again. Immediately
another and still more serious break oc-
cured opposite the Oaks resort. The men
doing this work have been working night
and day ali of this week and II was neces-
Sary yesterday to give them a brief rest
befOTe work was commenced or the
latest break
The question that now arises is: Has
fhe pipe line lived its period of useful
uess2'' Ii has been i'm service for eight
A-ears and this is the first time that any
serious break has occurred. The men en-
uloyed in repairing the breaks to the
flume have been surprised at the rot
tenness of the wood composing il. Doubt
is expressed as To the strength of the pipe
To Withstand satisfactorily the great pres
sure that Is constantly bearing upon It.
The coal situation is if anything worse
Today than il has been before. The con-
finued cold weather has brought to light
:, number OF cases of actual suffering on
the part of the poor people of the city.
Among the cases reported yesterday was
- family named Parker, residing near
avenue. consisting of a mother and six
children. Deputy Sheriff r. 3. Wilson
Jailed upon the family. He reported that
he family We're in abject want. With
nothing 10 eat in the house and no coal
coal for three days they were actually
suffering Deputy Wilson purchased a
small supply of wood and sent around
q bag or two Of coal to tide them over un-
Ill today. The mother had put her little
children to bed in the hope of keeping
them warm The house was one of those
that suffered in the recent windstorm and
Is practically a wreck. 50 that the family
will have to be removed from their pres
ent quarters The Utah State Journal
Of last evening came out with an appeal
to the people for aid for the poor. 1t
is claimed they have had many appeals
for aid in cases of restitution and here
an appeal was made to Poor clerk
Joseph Stanford who was recently ap-
pointed TO that position when he resigned
as commissioner on account Of charges
brought against him by attorney j. d.
Skeen. he replied that he was busy.
The Salvation Army is doing all it can,
but is handicapped by conditions. 1t is
reported that people with bins full OF
coal, fearing a continuance of the famine,
have called uD the dealers and insisted
that their condition demanded immediate
attention and when coal was sent around
II was found by the drivers that they
had plenty of coal on hand. A. a result
the dealers have given strict instructions
TO their men 10 refuse To unload coal at
any place where there is d reasonable
supply on hand.
General superintendent r. Buckingham
OF the snort Line in Ogden Yesterday
and among other things gave some at
tentiOn TO the coal situation Among the
things he did, in this connection, was the
ordering OF a representative 10 Rock
springs. This was done for the purpose
Of seeing that the Short Line got its
full quota of loaded cars from the mines
a compared with the number Of empties
placed there by that line. Il appearcd
that the Union Pacific has been doing
about as II pleased with the cars when
loaded. Many Of them that should have
come west have been ordered east hence
the necessity of the Short Line keeping a
man or the ground to take care of its
interests
Local Short Line officials declare that
they are doing all they can TO bring
coal into Ogden. They call attention to
the fact that within the past week they
have diverted number Of ears of coal
from their own private supply TO the coal
dealers. Approximately 100 cars Of coal
destined to the Utah division of the Short
Line were ut Granger and Green River
yesterday forenoon The destination of
these consignments are not known but
ogden viii get portion. The Salt Lake
division Of the Southern Pacific Is still
United in it, supply and yesterday had
- than a twentyfour hours supply on
hand
The ogden Rapid Transit company is
again hard pressed Early yesterday
morning it was forced to use the scrap
ings from its bins 10 keep IN the fires
This fuel did not make much steam and
the movement of the street cars was
much retarded during the day. One car
occupied exactly one hour in making the
"trip one way on the Washington avenue