Show COAL CONTRACTS TO BE LET tho tile quartermaster general 0 of the army will soon contracts for f fuel uel tor for all tho the posta posts in the department of the colo colorado rude for tho the coming fiscal carthe car the coal required will come from the mines minos of wyoming otili and col orado and the contract will bo be given gh en to the lowest loest t kindera on tho the basis of 0 equivalence it may interest the pub lie ile to know what is 1 meant b basis of t ind and more to know something about the quality of the coal mined in utah and wyoming in cars past whenever a coal lias has been discovered discover etl and placed on oil the market the quartermaster quartermasters department has caused an all official test of tin th same to be made and tho the result re corded ao so that v when lien a bid Is 1 mado made on two or more coal coals the price ia Is con in connection with the known quality the test determines exactly how many pounds of coal is 1 required to pro produce duc as much heat as a co of standard oakwood oak wood the figures are quite reliable because in the course courso of years coal companies and mines have made efforts to obtain through new tests better ratings and the tests now DOW of record have stood undisputed for some flome time for example it takes pounds of clear fork rork wyo coal to equal a cord of standard oak wood mood but it only takes pounds of Sunny sunnyside Sunn yelde side carbon county utah coal thue thus a hundred pounds of oal eoal for 10 cents Is chraper than a hundred pounds pound of clear fork rork coal for 21 cents because it will generate more heat here are tho the tests tho the 1 in mod lately fol following loving the names of the coals indicating tho the pounds required to equal a cord of 0 oak wood WYOMING clear blear fork 38 cumberland mine piar no 1 I vintah county y 1249 deep count beam alie lignite 1 n inez converse veri aaa comaty asin owr P aek creek U 1 rk L edwi county kiev A auie kemme r er ro no f 1 21 2137 kemmerer no 4 2 lu lander Lt niler county 2863 2 mangrem jehnwn count is 3 2 newcastle antelope mine 1 2760 hor albany county co uny aw 12 67 sever savery creek branch of inake river 2558 lilan an valley sweetwater jot biati abey va valley icy near fort duchesne 2460 lant IL oate gate carbon county 1212 clear creek carbon county enil bitumen gua 2404 r mine 23 22 froin from Duch pleasant Ilea Plea ant mant valley lurton 2812 Pleat mat Qt valley utah U tub central coal company 8 1 1 af pf 1 valley winter mine t val valley ley coal cos I 1 company 2407 sunnyside Sunny alde side carbon county trie 6 waatch bocky mountains mountain abir cb r lignite coal brummit county no coal wal from nevada or idaho evet etel been tested |