Show STATE COAL BID I PROTEST FILED Conference of Governor t and nd Fuel Dealers to Be Held I Ithe As the the result res o 01 a protest filed by bythe the Rom ey Coal company with the state board of examiners Monday to the e effect that the company company com com- pany shou should d have b been en awarded awarded the to all the coal ton nage which it bid bid upon upon a confer confer- ence o all alI t t. who ho bid bidon on the capitol contract will be called up n the return of Governor Geo George ge H. H H Dern According to S Secretary of State H H. S. S Crockett there were seven seven seven- teen companies In addition to the theR theR R lapp Romney company who proposed pro pro- posed bids and seventeen of these bids wre re on lIke slack coal at the mine and nd th the bIds on on other coals were practically lIy the same The Romney company in Its protest d declared cl red that the st state te would lave have saved approximately 2000 in dividing the prop proposals s ls for coal Th The proposal of this company com coin pany was as not when the schedule of Dl proposals w was s submitted sub sub- to the board according to tho protest S The company on August 18 subMitted submitted sub sub- a bi bid f to the state to furnish the state and state s at 75 cents per to at the mines on ton of slack coat coal whereas all the oth other r bids submitted asked 1 per toh at the mine for slack coal according t to the company company oTlie protest protest pro pro- test says that the Romney bid was was 25 25 cents per ton lower than any other bid submitted and 1825 lower In aU than other ther bids Submitted Sub Sub- milled by other companies The protest says that the company corn com pany any bl bid per tOrt at the mine mineto mineto to to OO tops tons domestic lump coal which the company declares was the thelo lost t id submitted The pot st d declares declares' cl res that the sl slack ck co coal l lof of this company is being used by a a number pf the large ind industrIes ot of th the state An analysis of their made by Herman Harms state hemis |