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year 1910-11, the approximate number of tons used, and the 

 contract prices per ton: 



Approxi- 

 mate Num- Contract 

 Purpose for Which Used. Kind of Coal ber of Prices 



Tons Used. Per Ton. 

 Power Houses — heating buildings. 



South Park Indiana Screenings 6000 $2,345 



West Park Illinois Screenings 4200 2.20 



Lincoln Park Pocahontas, Mine Run 940 4.00 



Individual Heating Plants — heating buildings similar to 

 those heated by power houses. 



South Park Anthracite, Range 70 7.00 



West Park Anthracite, Range 160 7.25 



Lincoln Park Pochontas, Mine Run 1375 4.19* 



Individual Heating Plants — heating pavilions, natatoriums, 

 fieldhouses, etc., in small parks. 

 South Park — 



6 parks Anthracite, Buckwheat 2920 4.40 



3 parks Anthracite, Buckwheat 1 100 3.899 



1 park Pocahontas, Mine Run 700 4.50 



West Park— 



1 park Anthracite, Range 70 7.25 



5 parks Pocahontas, Mine Run 1065 4.00 



Lincoln Park — 



1 park Anthracite, Egg 50 7.00 



3 parks Pocahontas, Mine Run 550 4.19* 



It will be noted from the above table that, while the South 

 Park Board used anthracite buckwheat which cost $4.40 per ton 

 for heating the buildings in six small parks, the West and the 

 Lincoln Park Boards used Pocahontas mine run for this purpose 

 at nearly all of their small parks. These two Boards paid only 

 $4 and $4.19 per ton respectively. The South Park Board also 

 used Pocahontas mine run at one of their small parks, for which 

 they paid $4.50 per ton. Although this price is considerably 

 higher than that paid by the other Park Boards, if Pocahontas 

 instead of anthracite had been used in the six small parks and 

 paid for at the rate of $4.50 per ton, it would have been much 

 cheaper, as the former has a heat value about 16 per cent in 

 excess of the anthracite. The South Park Board used for this 

 purpose approximately 2,920 tons of anthracite buckwheat, which 

 cost them, at $4.40 per ton, $12,848. If they had used Pocahon- 



*Average price paid. 



