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Show CEMENT BIDS ARE ENTIRELY TOO HIGH WASHINGTON. March 4. The Interior Inte-rior department has rejected all the bids submitted several days ago for the supply sup-ply of from 150.000 to 250.000 barrels of Portland cement to the Government for the Salt river irrigation project In Arl-rona. Arl-rona. The action is the result of the excessive prices submitted by the cement ce-ment manufacturers, the department statins; that first-class Portland cement can be manufactured at the dam site on Salt river from good materials at hand there for less than $3 a barrel, including in-cluding the entire cost of the plant, fuel, operation, etc. This figure would make a saving of about (2 a barrel, the department report says, on the basis of the lowest regular bid. or a saving of $300,000 for 150.000 barrels, or $500,000 for 250,000 barrels, the largest amount lo be supplied. The deportment will now consider the question of erecting a plant for the Government manufacture of the cement, ce-ment, the purchase of the supply In open market, or readvertlsement of bids. |