Repository: UIHistories Project: Newspaper - The Independent and the Observer (Selections 1937) [PAGE 11]

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P A G E THREE

uts Prepare Anniversary

PHYSICAL PLANT BATTLES WINTER

More than 90 University buildings, covering 65 million cubic feet of building space, are heated every day, an authority at the University physical plant disclosed today. All University buildings except the artillery barn, the Horticulture field laboratories, the farm buildings, and the President's home, receive heat from the gigantic boilers in the plant. The plant is connected to the University by two 12-inch and an eight-inch steam main. A n o t h e r six-inch main is used for high pressure steam service in the University laboratories. The largest a m o u n t of coal far this winter used so rar Ulis wini r in one 24-hour peril 1 was 227 tons. This a m o u n t was consumed on Feb. 13, last S a t u r d a y , w h e n th<

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