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    M Rajit jjaice, Utah, uctoper j.yua, . . . .Weights on coal from Rock Springs.. . . On a rriv a l in S a lt Lake Oitv A o f 8th, X visited Mr.O.H. G r iffin , Agent, Western Railway weighing A s s 'n and talked with Mm re la tiv e to situation among smelters on paying freigh t charges on coal from Rock Springs and other Wyoming points. I learned f o r the f i r s t time that fo r the past three or four years there has teen a great deal o f d issatisfactio n with a l l the smelter people on the coal question, irrespective o f origin , and the situation as i t now stands i s that the Utah Fuel Co., whose mines are in Utah on the Rio Grande tracks, and that destination weights are Obtained inpayment o f freigh t ebarges; also the price o f coal to the mine. This governs on a l l coal handled .at Murray Smelters, as w ell as G arfield , where the Rio Grande makes entire haul. The scales at mines are under ju risd ictio n o f Mr. G riffin , as well as those at smelters and i t was because Mr. G riffin was s a tis fie d that more dependence could be placed on aocrtmcy o f scales at smelters than those at mines, that the destination weights govern. I also was advised that the R o Grande t a r if f s covering rate on these coal shipments from Utah Mines, does not. carry the same previse as the Uhoin P a c if ic , Oregon Short Line and SPLA&SLRR join t t a r i f f does/ viz; Mine weights to govern in a l l cases; or words t this effect. I also learned from Mr. G r iffin , by looking through his f i le s , that' the quest ion o f Rock 0 rings scales being nsLisbls* had been up a number o f times since f i r s t o f A p ril, 1905, and that to th is date, very l i t t l e i s anything had 'oeen done to better the situation. On December 20,. 190 G, i t was arranged by Messrs ilm tsehnitt and Stubbs, on behalf* o r the Union P a c ific Coal Co. and c a rrie rs, with Mr. F.O.Packer, Chairman, Western Railway Weighing Ass*n, to take charge o f a l l the weighing o f coal at mines in Wyoming/ am that Mr. Becker placed th is under the ju risd ictio n o f Mr* Arthur H all, at Denver, who has had charge cf same sines sons tii© in February; 1907 to date. I learned from further correspondence I was permitted to read,that on Nov. 1, 1903, Hr.C.TI. G r iff in w ill be given charge o f weighing on a l l coal mined in Wyoming. On taking -he matter up with Mr. Reeves of OfB.L. , -am also with Mr. A.B.McHitt of same comp .any, I fin d that th is subject hass boon • subject of much discussion and dissension between carriers and mines and smelter people since s&ma time in 1904. Position now taken by U.P. and 0.8. L. on a i l coal from Wyoming points to v a lle y smelters i s to adhere r ig id ly to mine weights, unless investigation o f claim based on shortage o f coal : developos the fact