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Show i . . . . ; " ! . 4. fp ;l , ..... . ' VTASIIIXaTC::, D. C. June 1. The - C irter; ister-Ger pral of the srrry vll soon award contracts far furl f t t:i the posts In the Dfrartment cf Ccloraio f:r the cor..:rj CscU year. The coal required will come from the r lriPB of vryor-.lr- Utah und Colorado, and the contracts nill he flven to the lowest- tliiers on the taala. of equivalence. equiv-alence. It may interest the pilbUc to know what is meant by "basia of equivalence," equiv-alence," and more, to know aomething about the qual.ty of coal mined In Utah and tVyorr ::r.X. ', - In years ract ikhetvever a coaj bas been discovered and j '. acM ca the market, mar-ket, the quartermastjer'a department has caused an oh'lclal test of the same to be made and the reault recorded. o that srbea a tld ta tnait on two or more coals, the crlce la considered in connection with the known quality. The test determines exactly sow many pounds of -coal Is required to fxroduce as much heat aa a cord of standard oak wood. The figures axe quite reliable, because In the course of year coal companies and mines hare made efforts to obtain, throe new testa, better rating, rat-ing, and the testa now ot record feY atood undisputed for some time. For example, K takes 82S pounds of Clear Fork, Wyo., eoai to equal a cord of standard oak wood, but It only take 2018 pounds cf unnyalde. Carbon county, coun-ty, Utah, coal. Thua, . hundred pounds of Bunnyside coal for 40 cents la cheaper cheap-er than a hundred sounds ef Clear Fork coal for 21 cents, because Jt will generate more heat. Here are the tests, the figures Immediately following the. name of the eo&Xs JadLcatlnjr the pounda required to equal . cord Of standard pak wood: WTOMINO, Clear Fork : ; MM Cumberiand UgoUe, antoe No. li L'lnU county , 29 Deep seam lignite, lnes. Converse county , MK Deer Creek, Glenrock, . Converse county I. STB Dlamoadville u ........ . ilW Hanna t.WS Kemaierer, No. 1 1.117 Iv'emmerer, Ka 4... t.SlO Muxler, Vremont eounty tJJ Muakrea, Jphoaoa county.... JC3 Newcastle, Antelope mine, Weston county l.TO Rock Creek, Albany county.,, 1.391 Rock Springs l7 Savery Creek (branch ef Snake river) IBS Sheridan, Diets mtoe.... , I,tl Spring Valley , 2,270 Baeetwater IMA UTAH, Ashley Valley, near Fort Duchesne.. 14X0 Castle Gate, Carbon county ,Tii Cltar Creek. Carbon county, semi. bituminous S.4M Labrum mine. Indian reservation, twenty. three miles from Fort Du Cheene 8.333 Pleasant Valley. Carbon county Last Pleasant Valley. Utah Central Coal company N t.498 Pleasant Valley, Winter Quarter mine. Pleasant Valley Coal company com-pany 2,407 Sunnyside, Carbon eounty 2.014 Wasatch Rocky mountains , 2,401 Weber lignite eoal. Summit -county.. 2.1&8 No coal from Nevada or Idaho has ever been tested, and It Is understood that those States have no coal mines. |