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In weighing coal B illin g Agents must #h©w grows tar# andnet weights Oh a i l w a y b ills in the usual way and must in d ic a te in evs*ry case whether actual cr forked tare Is used. Shipments cohered fey such waybills must not he rewetghed*. Under these t a r i f f s , to which the Union P a c ific , Short Line and the <j& .4 Sait Lake road# are p arties, i t seems p ositively clear that the revenue % upon coal hauled can only he assessed on the actual weight# obtained by weighing over track scale# a t poin t o f origin , subject to lainimvaw weights at provided in .the t a r iffs * I do not know whether-, as m atter o f fa c t , the weights were obtained by using Union P a c ific h a ilrea d Company's tra ck scale# a t Heck Springe or n ot. I f they were n ot, I do not know o f any way toy which the t a r i f f p ro visio n could be ex a ctly complied w ith . I t i » p o ssib le that the weight# wore taxon from the Onion P a c ific Coal Company' a track scales a t the mines, or in some other way. #> fh e snowing o f weights a t d e stin a tio n , I am advised, were upon the scales approved by the western Weighing A s s o c ia tio n , d iich are used by the Smelting Company in i t s purchase and sales o f ore, and so fa r as I have heard, no complaint has ever been made o f the accuracy o f the Smelting Company's scales a t d e stin a tio n , Query: How s h a ll the true weights be determined? I t is probably true