Show CEMENT FOR TONTO BASIN Uncle Sam Plans Big Enterprise for Arizona nnd Will Lot Contracts TRIBUNE I SPECIAL Washington D Cf Nov 5An agreement unit been reached between the officials of the Interior department arid the manufacturers of Portland cement by which the Government will I save several hundred thousand dollars i in the erection of the Ton to basin dam I in Arizona and in addition secure amp a-mp ern cement mill with n dally capacity capac-ity of 2fiO barrels I As a result of the agreement the department will advertise adver-tise for bids for furnishing two hundred hun-dred thousand barrels of cement for the Tonto dam by either of two methods The first method provides for the manufacture manu-facture of cement at an urlnblishcd mil and its fihipmcnt to Phoenix or Globe by rail nnd then transported overland I to time site of the dam The second i I proposition contemplates the t manufacture manufac-ture of the cement at the site of the dam the plant amid power to operate the same to be furnished by the Government Gov-ernment to contractor free of charge This n arrangement is highly satisfactory lo both manufacturers and the department depart-ment officials The Ilrat contract for cement In connection con-nection with irrigation work In the West was let today Calls for thirty thousand barreln of cement for the Nevada Ne-vada project were made and tho contract con-tract was let to the Pacific Portland Cement company of San Francisco |