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Show coal (or $1 9. a ton for the city'd pub-He pub-He schools thl whiter, was turned down by the city school hoard Friday evening, and b wan decide. i to ae copt the Welter Coal company's offer to furnish E'ark Clly coal for Si.r.u i tin:, on car1, provided a sufficient bond to Insure the faithful performance perform-ance of the contract is executed. Tho precise quality ot tho coal appears to j be a mutter ot" uncertainty, but the cost of delivery to the school buibl-I buibl-I ings from the cars, which will have to 'he horns by the board, should nrt be m.re than from ."'0 to 75 cent.-; a. ton, and thp acceptance of tin- offer I should mean ,i snlng under the bids tendered by ihe coal combine. The proiMirli Ion (o substitute th-; Park City coal lor th.' Hiawatha was defeated In committee, u developed I In the bonrd meeting. Mr. Van Pelt lijjved In the board meeting that the Morris otfer go over, but Mr. Movie said Mr. Van I'elt was Inconsistent, and Mr. Thomas urged immediate action ac-tion on account of Ihe ppproach of cold wonthT, and .Mr. Harrcttc moved t;i substitute the Weber conipany'j coal for Hiawatha. The I nlon Fuel company, which had submitted n hid before the Weber tender ten-der came In, wanted the matter to go over on the grounds that the Weber c in pan j- must have known the figures of the bid. the Union compauy representative rep-resentative intimating that a new bid would be submitted It was pointed out that the Union company had ad-i ad-i vantage over the combination similar to th.i' of the Weber company over it I and Mr. Barretter amendment unau I Imously carried. PARK CITY COAL TO EE USED IN SCHOOLS , 1 Salt Lake, Sept. 2 1. - Recommendation Recommenda-tion by the buildings and grounds j committee that Richard P. Morris' offer of-fer to furnish Hiawatha run of mine |