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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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494 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 27 Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, to be shipped from East Moline, Illinois, at a net price of $4,529.25. 4. One Norton Hydraulic Surface Grinding Machine, 6" x 18", with hydraulic table traverse and automatic cross feed, complete with chuck and motor, from Marshall and Huschart Machinery Company, Chicago (Agent for the Norton Company), at a price of $1,242 f.o.b. Worcester, Massachusetts. 5. Two hundred ten squares 9" x 18"—%" thick Black Asbestos Shingles and 800 lin. ft. Starters for same, for the Physical Plant Department, from the Johns Manville Sales Corporation, Chicago, the lowest bidder, at a price of $2,261.48 f.o.b. Urbana. 6. Twenty Leitz microscopes, from E. Leitz, Inc., at a total price, less allowance for old microscopes which will be turned in as part payment, of $3,084.80. 7. One Rolling-load Rail Testing Machine, for use in the investigation of continuous welded rails by the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, to be built by the Physical Plant Department, the lowest bidder, at a price of $1,555. Sealed bids were secured from two Urbana manufacturers and from the Physical Plant Department, whose bid is lowest. 8. 3,220 Diploma Covers, from W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company, the lowest bidder, at a price of 77£ each, or $2,479.40. 9. One hundred ten Choice Hereford Feeder Calves, from St. Louis Producers, at a price of $9.25 per hundredweight f.o.b. Texas loading point. The total amount will be approximately $4,500. On motion of Mr. Pogue, these purchases were authorized. PURCHASE OF COAL FOR THE URBANA DEPARTMENTS (25) The following report of bids received, and opened on September 22, 1937, on the University's coal requirements for the Urbana departments for the period from October I, 1937, to June 30, 1938: RAIL MINES Name Tons Bell & Zoller Coal Company . 1 500 Franklin County Coal Corp.. I 500 Peabody Coal Co 35 000 Penwell Coal Mining Co 10 000 Shippers Fuel Corp 20 000 Tilton Mining Co 8000 Name Albert Block Ralph Cook Crawford Coal Company F. B. & M. Coal Company Lawrence Kerans Washington Martin Oakwood Coal Company Willard Stigall Shipping Price Point f.o.b. mine Freight Total Ziegler $1 80 $1 70 $3 50 l 7 3 5 {RovaltorT} l 8 o ° ° Westville 1 35 60 1 95 Pana I 50 I 08 2 58 Grays 1 20 60 1 80 Til ton 1 35 60 1 95 Delivered TRUCKED COAL Tons I 500 2 000 2 500 1 500 1 500 1 500 7 000 4 000 Price $2 25 1 78 I 95 2 58 2 20 1 75 I 95 2 40 The Purchasing Agent and the Comptroller recommend the award of contracts to the three low bidders as follows: Shippers Fuel Corporation, Chicago: 20,000 tons (to be shipped by rail from Grays, west of Danville cm the Illinois Terminal Railroad) $1 20 per ton f.o.b. mine; $1 80 per ton delivered
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