Show j UTAH COAL IS THE BEST A washington special to the tribune says the quartermaster general of the army annly will soon award contracts for fuel for alt all the posts in the department of colorado for the coming fiscal year the coal required will come from the mines of wyoming utah and colorado and the contracts will ber be given to the lowest bidders on the basis of equivalence it may interest the public to know what is meant by basis oj of equiha lence and more to know something about the quality of coal mined in utah and wyoming official test made in years past whenever a coal has been discovered and placed on the market the quartermasters department has caused an official test of the same to be made and the tb result recorded so that when a bid is made on two or more coals the price is considered I in connect connection tion with the known quality the test deter determines minos exactly how many pounds of coal is required to produce as much heat as a cord of standard oak wood the figures are quite reliable because ina the course of years coal companies and mines have made efforts to obtain through new tests better ratings and the tests now of record have stood undisputed for some time S one example given for example it takes pounds of clear fork wyo coal to equal a cord of 1 standard oak wood but it only takes 2016 pounds of sunnyside Sunny side carbon county utah coal thus a hundred pounds of sunnyside Sunny side coal for 40 cents is cheaper than a hundred I 1 pounds of clear fork coal for 21 cents be cause it will generalee gener atee more heat here are the tests the figures immediately following the names of the coals indicating the pounds required to equal a cord of standard oak wood wyoming clear fork cumberland lignite mine no 1 uintah county 2249 deep seam lignite inez converse county t deep creek glenrock glenbock Glen rock converse county diamondville Dia 2169 hanna kemmerer no I 1 2137 kemmerer no 4 2310 lander fremont county 2862 johnson county newcastle antelope mine weston e county 2760 rock creek albany county f rock springs 2267 savery creek branch of snake river 2558 sheridan dietz mine 3 spring valley 2270 sweetwater 2286 f utah s ashley valley beai near fort duch duchesne esne 2450 castle gate carbon county 2272 clear creek carbon county semi 1 bituminous 2404 labrum mine indian reservation 23 i miles from fort duchesne pleasant unpleasant valley carbon county 2822 cleasant beasant valley utah central coal J company 2498 pleasant valley winter quarter mine pleasant valley coal company 2407 sunnyside Sunny side carbon county 2016 wasatch rocky mountains 2406 weber lignite coal summit county 3 |