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Show Bids Opened for Evanston Postoffice Five Bidders Anxious to Erect Government Gov-ernment Building Minneapolis Man the Lowest. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. D. C July G.-Blds were opened today at the Treasury department for the construction of the new public building at Evans-ton, Evans-ton, Wyo. There were five bidders, the lowest E. Miller of Minneapolis, at $H9,S(0. Other bidders were: Morrison Construction Construc-tion and Manufacturing company, Denver, I3SO.0OO; Campbell Building company, Salt Lake. 5103,300; John C. Robinson, Chicago, 517S.-193; Oliver Hodgson, Salt Lake, 232,-7C3. 232,-7C3. Congress has appropriated S179.0CO for the slto and building at Evanston. of which amount SOOO has been expended to secure a site, leaving 5175,600 for actual construction construc-tion work. Mr. Miller will probably be awarded tho contract. |