Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-06
It's VAGUELY limited
THE WORST IS
YET TO COME
SINISTER RUM0R THAT COAL
MAY JUMP ANOTHER DOLLAR
In Denver It's Only SIS a Ton
and the People Have the
Nerve to Make a Howl About
the Price.

A dark and sinister rnmor reached
the Albuquerque housekeeper las
night as he carefully counted the easf
in the penny savings hank, TO see il
there might be enough 20 piece out m,
price Of a bucket Of coal. that the
price Of tina gold lined commodity
WAS about TO do another little stunt
IN high jumping TO the une Of an ad.
ditional dollar O ton. It's true tina
the price of coal has reached a point
now where a few additional dollars "a
the ton do not make any particular
difference save for sentimental rea
sons. The price has climbed so high
that no m but q sheep wner thinks
OF buying any coal any way. But a
raj can look at a king and sometimes
N he's a hard and seasoned old cht
he can look at a pair OF kings, and so
Il isn't surprising that the common
Reezcr should still occasionally 90 out
side to eaeape the smell of his gasO-
line stove. and gaze appreciatively at
the dizzy antics Of a ION OF coal: a
short ton AZ that. n wonders sofNe-
times how . short ton can climb fast
er and higher than a long ton, but
there are 50 many things the con-
sumer cannoi seem 20 understand, ana
the height the short ton has reached
makes him dizzy anywaY SO that his
think tank doesn't work.
Hourly bulletins are not being IS
sued from the offices Of the coal deal
ere. in fact. nothing Is being Issued
from said offices. II doesn't seem TO
be a art Of the coRl business 10 issue
anything but coal and bills, and this
seems TO be "A universal practice else
where as well as here.
Now up IN Denver there seems 10
be some little inclination to figure out
y coal trust, OF course there eve
was such a thing az a coal trust. and
nc cpal dealer was ever known To en-
ter into a combination with another
coal dealer, but 10 In Denver the silly
people are asserting that something cf
that sort has happened. and they're
making an awful fuss about Il. IN
fact. uD IN Denver the people az.
bowling like the p%rOverbial wolf on q
windy night. 80
And just listen. It's enough to draw
screaming shrleks from a chimpanzc.
A Denver newspaper says.
Denver has the highest coal rates
on earth, considering the noarness Of
the coal fields"
Wouldn't that make you long for a
lemon sherbet7
Denver's coal rates the highest ON
earth, considering the nearness OF the
GOA fieida@und coal Ia Denver can
he had for SO q ton.
Think Of u. dear brother. Sc a ton
five samoleona-cRrt wheels-do-
bies' Wouldn't u make YOU weep.
Can any one rise aud remember
when he bought = ton OF coal around
these diggings FOR So per ton--short
or Iona
He can't, The party isn't present.
Denver isn't 80 very much nearer "a
ITS coal fields than Albuquerque II ia.
~ coal fields. but s. a Tor oh
paimy days when a hundred per cent
profit was plenty
n the coal dealers a induce Den
Yer to shut up iis yen about paying
So. How gladly we'd dig up 50
the ton. wouldn't we, neighbour We'd
pay u and buy the coal man q cigar
ana consider him our friend and name
our baby FOR him.
Hut. oh. hush rs time 60 make the
tire In the range and the wood CRATE
Il IN and the thing Just Won't work.
What's the use Of dreaming.