Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-24 | Page 5 | Oil as Against Coal for Fuel Considered

OIL AS AGAINST COAL FOR FUEL CONSIDERED Board nonn of uC Clerk CIrk lutI gating Relative Merits Diet of oC l u ci The proposition of or using oil instead of oC coa coal as fuel In the public school chool buildings of or th the tho city is being leing Investigated investigated gated by Clerk L. L J P. P Ju Judd of or the board of or c education Oil Is use used in the tIme Tacoma high school which Is about the time size sizo of or the new hast East Si Side e high school Mr 1011 Judd received a letter from Clerk Cleric Alfred Hrc Lister of or the tIme Tacoma board boar of or education education tion ion stating stath that th tha oil had been found m much ch cheaper and more satis saUSa factory Mr Mi Ir Lister says that Tacoma formerly for for- merly paid 4 I and 40 per ton for coal coal while now new it gets oil at per barrel and the cost of ot heating heating- the h high gh school is about 2000 a year ear as against double that amount with coa coal The fhe cost of Installing an oil burning burning- apparatus apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus is and time the use of oil cuts the tho force in lii the time engine room down from two to 10 one man In Salt Lake Talco the time cost of or heating the tho pr present hi high h school with coal at 35 and 75 per ier ton Is about 15 03 per imer year yeal and tho time cost for all nil schools is With the oil It is Js claimed this tills cost could b be cut practically Int in t two we There is some son question as to the lasting qualities of boilers bollers when oil is isU U use used S e d. d