The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-21

coal came in the public would take
readily to the storage idea.
Woods l.. Miller, coal dealer of ST.
Anthony, Ida, gave evidence along
the same lines. He had never been
able TO get all the coal he could handle
in his experience of eleven years in the
business, until the past year, when he
was buying Utah coal in spite of the
differential His part Of the country
was rapidly developing, and there was
an ever increasing market for tho Utah
coal if it could be brought IN Speak
ing of rates, he brought out the fact
thnt though il is ten miles further to
Sugar City than st. Anthony, the,
former town enjoys an advantage of
81 ton on certain kinds of coal ship
ments.
o. w. Smith of Boise told OF the will
rates were given by the roads that would
permit OF Its shipment there, Even now
he said he bought II and considered II
coal that could be stored in corrugated
sheds or In the open. To store Wyoming
coal at all 1t was necessary 10 build ce-
mcnt and brick warehouses and even
Utah. He predicted large market In
short time His experience Of nineteen
years In the coal business covered many
shortages and many times he had been
forced TO refuse his customers more than
half ton at time during SUCH Boise
wanted more coal and the more points
supplying II the more chance II had TO
get II WIS his summing up OF the situ-
alton.
Finds Coal Scarce.
o. N Etter OF Twin Falls said he was
brought from Omaha 10 go into the coal
business by an agent OF tho Union Pa
cihc Coal company, who promised nm
that he would see that he received the
coal he wanted. n promise never kept.
Coal had been scarce ever since he went
there until very recently.
II. r. Clcever OF Caldwell. Ida. told
Of coal famnes he had been through.
others and he like them. felt sure that
such troubles would be averted when the
Utah coal could come in as they would
]. e. Petit, state coal mino inspector,
was called TO corroborate some figures
concerning the capacities Of Utah mines
ly cross examined as TO the methods by
which he arrived Mt his ngures,
James H. Mayes. president of the Cas-
tie Valley, Coal company and vice presl-
panvs-of which Windsor V. Rice of Salt
Lake is president. detnlled the history
OF The mine. which had heen under de-
Guiding the acquisition of the railway.
of which II owned the entire stock. the
company had invested about SS7o.o0o.
tcmber 10 last Concerning the details
OF sales and conditions he preferred TO
let p C. Kittle. the general manager
tell.
Indication of Favoritism,
Mr., Kitue was examined later. The
important feature OF his evidence was
that another company which owned q
tSe @ Unlon Paee main mi aT line over and
charged no per diem for the use of equip
ment. This was the Grass Greek Termi-
nal railway-which ran from. the Park
City branch OF the Union Pacific at Grass
Creek Junction to the mine. distance
Of nine miles. The Union Pacific. he
said, paid IL, cents a ton for The haul
to the JUNCTION and asked nothing for
It's cars. all of which it supplied. The
Grass Creek road. he said. had but one
locomotive and was In much the same
owned little equipment beyond two loco
motives. He said he was general man
ager OF the Castle Valley Coal company
and the Castle Valley Railway company
near Coalvile. 10 which the
Grass Creek road ran. ms well as In mines
in Wyoming owned by the Wyoming Coal
The. principal markets for his
were in Utah and part OF Idaho.
They had no eastern market, as had the
Wyoming mines, which sold pretty much
pany had been insufficiently supplied
with cars during nine months of the
year and were thus greatly hampered.
When this happened 1t was the north
western territory that suffered as rule.
Empties, he said. were obta med directly
from the Denver Rio Grande.
Before Mr. Kittle concluded he re-
cRved little reminder from Special Ex-
afnincr Burchmore. who said he had re-
ceived from the commission the lnforma-
ton that the road had not filed reports
OF some accidents OH II. One Of these
accidents had been referred 10 several
times during the hearing and in 1t the
Only passenger car owned by the COM
pany had been destroyed.
Uncertainty of Position.
During the morning +. 4. Sweet, presi-
dent of the Consolidated Fuel company
one. of the complainants, concluded his
evidence on cross s-eSamination. He re-
peated his statements that lack OF as.
surnnce that the Denver &c Rio Grande
would handle the cars had prevented the
Southern Utah from ordering It's own
but they would not hesitate
TO do so when thcy had such assurance.
Motive power had frequently been fur
nished by the Denver s. Rio Grande TO