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Show School Board Lets Coal Bids; To Try Experiment The Iron County Board of Education Ed-ucation will experiment with the use of northern coal in the Parowan Par-owan and Paragonah schools this winter, and has accepted the bid of Benson Haycock of Parowan to furnish the coal for these two schools. Arguments have been repeatedly presented to the board that the use of northern coal would be more economical ec-onomical than the use of local coal, and in order to determine the comparative values of the coal, northern coal will be used exclusively in the schools mentioned men-tioned this year. Mr. Haycock's bid to furnish coal from the Browning mine in Emery county for a contract price of $9.75 per ton, was accepted. It is expected that approximately 300 tons of coal will be needed for the two schools. The bids of the Koal Creek Coal company and the Webster Coal company, both of Cedar City, to furnish coal for the remaining re-maining schools were accepted. Furnishing of the coal will be equally divided between the two schools. It will require about 400 tons for the Cedar City schools, 35 tons for the Escalante Valley school and 50 tons for the Kan-arraville Kan-arraville school. The bids sub-mited sub-mited by the two companies were Identical, $7.00 a ton for coal delivered in Cedar City, $7.90 a ton, delivered in Kanar-raville, Kanar-raville, and $8.10 a ton delivered at the Escalante schools. |