The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-09
irresponsible Paper Prints An
other Knock in It's Campaign
of Maligning City.
DELIBERATELY MISQU0TES
FIGURES ON STEAM COAL
Declares Prices TO Manufacture
er Are Twice as High as
They Really Are.

The "Morning Gimet." sometimes
called the Herald Republican, oyerlooks
no opportunity to misreprcsent Salt
Lake City Whom opportunity hicks,
il manufactures il on its own hook and
goes at thc city's fair reputation with
a slcdge. The constant knocking of
the .Gimlet'' would be serious mat
ter il anyone took for truth any OF
the things its pages contain, but, hap
PLY. everybody knows that the "G'm-
Lei - rarely prints anything that is so:
The latest oticnsc of tho "6imlet.
aud one tina, is violently fragrant and
would be harmful did not the condi-
;ions obtain with reference to the
"Gimlrt' previously noted, is lis at
tagcous place for the location and opcr-
atop of manufacturing plants.
First OF all, the Gimlet' says That
Salt Lake has practically no manufac-
turing plants. which is lie. Next, the
''Gimlet' says the reason why salt
Lake has So very few manufacturing
establishments is because the coal COM
pauies charge these enterprises $623
ION for coal, which is also lie.
"Gimlet's'' Peculiar Logic.
After long flight into the magma.
having moro factories, the ''Gimlet
concludes that Salt Lake will have TO
struggle along indefinitely without IN
dustrial pavrolls. and then, with lis
customary crack Drained logic. il says:
Sui none of these things is possible
long as coa Is sd.25 ton. In tie
first place. manufacturing plant Is
going To be located where fuel Is so OK
pcnsive because 1t would bc impossible
TO make profit; and in the sccono
his family TO u city whore fuel is ut that
price And fuel * going To remain at
that price so long as the trust can Keep
IL there.
1t is probably fact that no manu-
featuring plant could long survive with
coal at S6.25 tor. but inasmuch as no
such price has ever been, Is not now
and is likely never to be charged, the
"Gimlet" wilfully misreprescnts.
Actual Rates on Coal,
The fact is that steam coal. the only
. kind used bv manufacturers, is told TO
the owner Of the plant al the mines at
sl.30 tho ton. The freight charges on
a ton of this class Of coal is $50 the
ton {. o. l.. Salt Lake. where the manu-
featuring plant has trackage, and AS
all the plants, with exceedingly few
exceptions. are located on tho railroads,
they receive the benefit of this rate on
coal.
In fixing this schedule. the conl
companies make no distinction be-
tween the small manufactures or the
big one; one rate is made for all. In
proof Of this assertion is the fact that
some of the manufacturers who have
l,cu enjoying this priviIeps do not con-
sumo more than two carloads OF steam
coal in Il year. These are the small
creamcrjcs canning factories, small
foundres and the like. Some of the
large retail dealers buy ten to twenty
cars of steam coal Il week, and they pay
facturer pays.
II the manufacturer has not tracka%e
facilities and buys from the dealers, the
cost is $3.50 the ton. This total Is made
up of the first cost, Sl.30 at the mine,
sI.50 freight charges, % cents to
teamstcrs. and 10 cents for reloadiDg,
leaving profit to the dealer Of %
cents the ton.
Are Brazen FalsehoodS.
In view of these facts, therefore, the
ftGimlet.'' In printing that which it
does. boldly and brazenly prints false
hoods from beginning TO end. So far
from steam coal costing manufactur-
ers s625 the ton, the price to the man
ufacturer with trackage is much less
than half the HCiimIet 50 figures, and
in the case Of the manufactures who
has not trackage facilities, the cost is
little more than half the figures pub
lishcd.
The people of Salt Lake are patient
and long suffering. but it occurs to one
that there is a limit TO the patience
OF even Salt Lake people, and that
something ought TO be done TO repress
the SANDERS Of the notorious "Gim
lct' and its campaign of deliberate
. Justification and wilful m;sreprosenta
ton The only saving grace i'll this con
ncetiou, az already pointed out, is. that
few read the "Gimlet'' and those who
do know in advance that its statements
are never true