The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-28
springfield Republic.I
That Coal COntract in the School Board

Ahs'o SOahA CVhbIoCb HI tlIC CCHOUI DOlIus
As heretofore given in your col
umns the Board of Education at the
regular meeting, July 21st, authorized
its Committee on Supplies to receive
bids for coal, which were submitted to
the Board at its next regular meeting,
August 4th, when it was found that
Taylor, Hayden & Co. proposed to fur
nish Hooking Valley Coal at 81 80 per
ton, while Pimlott & Kelly offered
Jackson Coal at $1.S94 per ton. Not
withstanding this difference in price
the Board under the pretext of the
Hooking Valley Coal being the better
coal, authorized its committee to pur-
chase from Taylor, Hayden & Co. at
S1.90. Whereat the jackson folks
feeling themselves aggrieved entered a
vigorous protest which resulted in the
Committees deferred action until a
called meeting of the Board could be
had and the matter reconsidered and
refused to purchase the coal until ac-
ton by the Board.
At its called meeting Saturday
night last, Mr.. C. w. Constantine,
representing the Jackson Coal interest,
presented to bare quorum of the
Board in refutation of the claim of
superiority made by the friends of the
Hooking Valley coal on affidavit by
John A. Russell, engineer of the
Champion Bar and Knife Company,
wherein he swears that he has used |
both kinds of coal long time, that
during period of four years he has
weighed all of the coal used by him
and the yield of ashes therefrom, and |
kept a record thereof, and that for an
equal amount Of power the largest |
consumption of Hooking Valley coal
for one day was 1O,O13 pounds, while |
that Of the Jackson was S,649, and |
the average of heating power of Jack
son over the Hooking Valley as taken
from his record is 36 per cent; that |
the largest proportion of ashes to coal
i'll the Hooking Valley was 1866 |
pounds of ashes to 9,02S pounds of |
coal, while that of the jackson was
6S5 pounds of ashes to S,649 pounds
of coal and the average of per cent. of
ashes in the Hooking Valley coal was
13 per cent, while that of the Jack
son was 4 per cent.
That the Jackson coal is free from
klinker, makes clean fire, and the
ashes are like wood ashes, while the
Hooking Valley has much klinker,
which makes dirty fire, and the
waste of coal in consequence is about |
30 per cent. That it does not con-
sumo as well as the jackson, makes
much more smoke, and the smoke in
passing through the flues, deposits tar.
which interferes with the draft, and |
the coating prevents much of the heat
from penetrating, and it escapes
through the smoke stack, while there
is no tar deposit with the jackson coal,
the flame consuming it all, thereby
producing additional heat, and that |
with the Hooking Valley coal at noon,
when the fire goes down, a bed of |
klinkers is found which must be clean
ed out before starting, and a new fire |
built, while with jackson, it being
free from klinkers, this not necessary. |
Also, an affidavit sworn to by William
b. Humphreys, engineer Of the Cham
pion Machine Co., j. S. Mellen, of the
firm of Deardorff, Mellen & Co., John
Kisling, engineer of Whiteley, Fassler
& Kelley, J. M. Russell, engineer of
the Republic Printing Co., Cyrus
Griest, engineer of the Transcript
Printing Company, James Wiggins,
engineer of the St. John Sewing Ma
chine Company Conrad Ihrig, en-
gineer of James Drisscoll & Sons;
Michael Kearns, engineer Of John H.
Thomas & Sons; Patrick Hennigan,
engineer of Boyd, Hotsenpillar & Co.;
Robert I. Wiggins, engineer of Cham
pion Malleable Iron Company; and
William Rea and w. C. Powell, both
engineers of the city Fire Department.,
setting forth that they have had ex-
perience with both the Hooking Valley
and Jackson coal, and that the jackson
coal is better in all respects and more
economical than the Hooking Valley
coal, in that it makes more steam and
less smoke, SCOT, and ashes; and that
they have heard read the affidavit of
John A. Russell, and say that their
experience has been in every particu-
lar as therein stated.
After a short discussion of these
facts and claim of the award to the
jackson bid, Mr.. Edwin Pimlott sub
mltted proposal to furnish the best
quality of Jackson County Coal in
such quantities as wanted to be deliv-
cred in the several school buildings in
thp months oF Arrug+ or Sar+o,,,L Loy