Show UTAH COAL IS BEST Tests Made by Quartermasters Quartermas-ters Department Army THE FIGURES ARE RELIABLE I Number Pounds Required toE to-E ual Cord Oak Wood Hundred Pounds of Utah Coal at 40 Cents Is Cheaper Than Fuel From Other Stato at 20 Cents TRIBUNE BUREAU 1 13 Postal Telegraph day Washington da-y 31 The QuartcrinaatcrOcneral of the army will soon award contracts for fuel for nil the posts > In the Department of Colorado for tho coming fiscal year Tho coal required will como from the mines of Wyoming Utah and Colorado and the contracts will be given to the lowest bidders on the basis of equivalence equiv-alence It may Interest the public to know what IB meant by basis of equivalence equiv-alence and more to know something about tho quality of coal mined In Utah and Wyoming OFFICIAL TEST MADE coal has In years past whenever a been discovered and placed on the market mar-ket the quartermasters department has caused an official test of the same to be made and the result recorded BO that when a bid Is made on two or more coals the price is considered In connection with the known quality The test determines exactly how many pounds of coal Is required to produce as much heat as a cord oC standard oak wood The figures are quite reliable because in the course of years conIc conI-c and mines have made efforts to obtain through new tests better ratings rat-ings and the tests now of record have stood undisputed for some time ONE EXAMPLE GIVEN For example It takes 3898 pounds of Clear Fork Wyo coal to equal a cord of standard oak wood but It only takes 1016 pounds of Sunnyside Carbon county coun-ty Utah coal Thus a hundred pounds of Sunnyside coal for 40 cents Is cheaper cheap-er than a hundred nounda of Clear Fork coal for 21 cents because It will generate more heal Here arc the tests the figures Immediately following the names of the coals Indicating the pounds required to equal 1 a cord of standard oak wood WYOMING Clear Fork 3803 Cumberland lignite mine Ko 1 Ulnta county 229 Deep scam lignite Inez Converse county 3S55 Deer Creek Glcnrock Converse county 3375 I Dlamoadvlllo 1 2169 llanna aOlJ Kcmmcrcr No1 2137 Commercr No J I c 2310 Lender Fremont county 2862 Munkres Johnson county 38C2 Newcastle Antclopo mine Weston county 27CO Rqck Creek Albany county 3391 Rock Springs 2207 Savory Crock branch of Snake river n 2553 Sheridan Dicta mine 3001 Spring Valley 2270 Swcetwatcr 21SG UTAH Ashley Valley near Fort Duchesne 2150 Castle Gate Carbon county 2272 Cltac Creek Carbon county mini bituminous 2104 Labrum mine Indian reservation twcntythrco miles from Fort Du Chesno 3333 Pleasant Valley Carbon county 2 2 Pleasant Vdllpy Utah Central Coal company > 2IOS Pleasant Valley Winter Quarter mine Pleasant Valley Coal company com-pany 2I07 iunnysldc Carbon county 2016 Vasatch Rocky mountains 24M Weber lignite coal Summit county 3163 No coal from Nevada or Idaho has ever been tested and It Is understood that those States have no peal mines |