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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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I936] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 49 Rooms 821 and 825 Provide roughing-in signal and electric service to five instead of three dental units. One unit to be in room 821 and four units in room 825, add.. Furnish necessary material and labor to install two additional outlets in Elevator Equipment Rooms 1015 and 1501, add 14 66 Net Extra No extension of time required. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED 47 33 19 113 14 99 58 77 66 11 $ (39) A recommendation that the following purchases be authorized: 1. Choice feeder cattle for the Department of Animal Husbandry at a price of approximately $4,000 or less. Funds are available in the budget of the Department for this purpose. 2. Pyrex laboratory glassware, 129 cases, for the General Chemical Storeroom at a price of approximately $2,400. This is a non-competitive item since the Corning Glass Works is the only manufacturer of this type of glassware and it is sold through jobbers at prices fixed by the manufacturer; also, the lowest price applies to orders for lots of 100 or more cases. 3. 500 barrels Portland Cement in paper sacks, for the Physical Plant Department's stock, from the Alpha Coal & Materials Company, Champaign, the low bidder, at a price of $2.23 net per barrel, or a total cost of $1,115. 4. 200 to 250 experimental lambs for the Department of Animal Husbandry from the Chicago Producers Commission Association at a price of from $1,200 to $1,400. On motion of Mr. Barrett, these purchases were authorized. PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (40) A report of the following purchases authorized by the President of the University, in accordance with the University Statutes: 1. Lumber—4000 feet northern white pine 2000 feet plain red oak 4000 feet red cypress from Wm. C. Schreiber Lumber Company, the low bidder, at a price of $1,191, f.o.b. Urbana. 2. Three thousand bushels of oats at 40 cents per bushel ($1,200) from E. E. Buhs, R.R. 3, Urbana, for the Department of Dairy Husbandry. This was the only lot of suitable oats obtainable in this area. 3. Ventilators for Law Building: 4—1560 C.F.M. unit ventilators 4—1260 C.F.M. unit ventilators 2—1000 C.F.M. unit ventilators from B. F. Sturtevant Company, Chicago, the low bidder, at a price of $1,891, f.o.b. factory, freight allowed. 4. Transformers, cutouts, and circuit breakers for the Mining and Metallurgical Laboratory from the General Electric Company, the low bidder, at a price of $1,651.92. 5. Copper and equipment for replacing roof on Skating Rink: 45 sheets 30" x 96"—16 oz. hard temper copper 336 sheets 30" x 96"—16 oz. soft temper copper 48 sheets 20" x 96"—16 oz. soft temper copper 100 sheets 20" x 96"—16 oz. hard temper copper lead coated 30 sheets 36" x 06"—16 oz. hard temper copper lead coated 1000 Lin. Feet *4" * Vt." copper bars 300 Lin. Feet ^i" x %" copper bars 6 Lgths. 8' 354" x 2s" copper leaders x 3 Lgths. 8' i$4" *A" copper leaders 12 90° elbows 3 Gross Yi," R.H. brass machine bolts
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