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Show OIL AS FUEL IN j ZIONTS SCHOOLS Salt Lake. Jan 24 Oil in place of Coal will be used In the heating of public school buildings In Ihe future if negoiintions now under way by the board of education terminate successfully. success-fully. For several weeks L. P Judd. c lark of the board, has been conducting a campaign of inquiry and Investigation of the use of oil in all parts of ihe country He has received letters from Beveral cities where oil is used in the schools and these are all favorable lo the petroleum fuel According to a letter from the board of education of Tacoma, Wash . received re-ceived yesterday oil is far cheaper than coal or forest wood, calls for loss salary expense in the boiler rooms and gives forth much less volume of smoke to murk the sky and taint the atmosphere While 'he proposal to adopt oil as a fuel has not been taken up formally by the board of education, the respective respec-tive members have expressed themselves them-selves in favor of it. provided its ad-tages ad-tages can be proven The oal bill of the board of education lost year vva 115,000 A saving of several thousand dollars can be made. It Is estimated, by using oil. not to speak of the eav lug made In firemen's wages, for in the case of oil one man in the engine-room engine-room of a beating plant can feed the oil as well as operate the furnaces I"1j A Folland, superintendent of school buildings, favors the oil in preference to the coal and is anxious to see It adopted by the hoard of education. edu-cation. The only drawback to tho use of oil Is said to lie In Its effect on the boilers Some oil using Institutions Institu-tions have reported that the life of a boiler Is shortened by the use of oil s soon as sufficient information can be gathered on the subject the matter will be submitted to the board for a decision. L P Judd, clerk of the board, said last night that the source of the sup-p! sup-p! of oil had not ben derided nn. but that the hoard would probably get it from Utah or southern Califor nla. |