Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 495]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Renewal of lease originally reported to Board of Trustees January n, 1926 (Minutes, page 508):

From whom Fairview Park Cemetery Association, DeKalb, Illinois Property 36.25 acres for agronomy experiment field, near DeKalb, Illinois Tenure Five years from January 1, 1936 to December 31, 1940 Amount to be paid by the University $361.50 per year Date November 15, 1935

This report was received for record.

PURCHASE OF COAL. FOR CHICAGO DEPARTMENTS (23) For a number of years Pocahontas mine-run coal has been burned in the heating plants at the Colleges of Pharmacy and Dentistry. This fall the Physical Plant Department made tests with Illinois coal in both plants and on the basis of those tests decided that Illinois coal can be satisfactorily used in both buildings. Requests for quotations on a uniform basis were submitted to all concerns which had bid on the University's coal supply for those buildings in recent years, and the following bids were received: Price Delivered Consumers Company $4-94 per ton Crerar-Clinch Company 4-97>i per ton 1 Western Fuel Company 5.05 per ton Eldridge Coal Company 5.50 per ton

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Average price.

The analyses of the coals on a B.T.U. basis show that the lowest bid was made by the Crerar-Clinch Company, whose coal, at a price of $4.89 a ton for the College of Pharmacy and $5.04 for the College of Dentistry, gives 51,594 B.T.U. for one cent. The difference in price for the two buildings is due to difference in conditions for handling coal at the two points. The next lowest bid is that of the Consumers Company at a uniform price of $4.94 a ton of coal yielding 49,533 B.T.U. for one cent. The Comptroller and the Director of the Physical Plant Department recommend that the contract be awarded to the Crerar-Clinch Company at the prices stated for approximately 500 tons for the Dentistry building and 400 tons for the Pharmacy building. Funds are available in the budget of the Physical Plant Department for this purchase. The approval of the Governor is required under the constitution.

On motion of Mr. Mayer, this contract was awarded to the CrerarClinch Company as recommended.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (24) The following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: General Electric Company, Bloomfield, New York, equipment for humidifying air for the investigation on effects of air conditioning on pathological conditions which is being made by the Department of Physiological Chemistry of the College of Medicine. Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation, $400 in support of the research on the influence of hormones and vitamins on phagocytosis being carried on by the College of Medicine. Mead Johnson and Company, $200 in support of research work on the healing of burns to be carried on by the Department of Surgery of the College of Medicine. Sangamo Electric Company, Springfield, Illinois, assembly parts for 10 single-element and for 5 two-element polyphase watthour meters, together with two time switches; value about $160. General Electric Company, Chicago, Illinois, all parts for one three-element