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Show CITY OF DENVER IS RETAIL COAL DEALER DENVER, Sept. 15. Five hundred tons of lignite eoal were sold by the city of Denver today in the first half day of its operations as a retail coal dealer. The price was $4.15 a ton delivered. At the main office a forty-ton carload of eoal was sold in the first fifteen minutes the office was open. Two others were sold at this office before noon. Approximately 150 persons gave orders for the fuel. The coal was sold to persons of limited income only. |