County's Coal Costs $6.77

Genuine Bidding for Coal Contracts Monday 

AN INDEPENDENT DEALER

Gets the Contract for County This Year — Plenty of Coal in the City for This Winter

Quite little interest was taken Monday in the bids for furnishing 150 tons of coal to the county. The bids were opened at 2 o'clock and the contract awarded to F. G. Graupner for $6.77 a ton for standard anthracite. The next lowest bidder was M. Staebler, at $6.94 a ton. The other coal dealers' bids were around $7.25 a ton. It was evident early in the day that the bars were down and that there was to be genuine competition for the coal. 

One of the coal dealers in talking to the Argus said that he did not think there would be any scarcity of coal this winter. A much larger quantity of coal has been put in the cellars of the citizens and some of them have more than they can use this winter.