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Show FORT IS SOLD City Comm ss on Has Litle Use for P e parednesa Plins Spec al to The Tribune OGDEN Dec 6 If tie Ity commis sioners have any faith I Pres dent "Wll son s plan for preparedness the failed to show it tonight when they e ected to dls pose of the onl) ortff cation possessed by Ogden The fort a stone structure twenty feet high and composed of several hundred thousand paving blocks has been officially sold to P AL Swanson of alt Lake at (15 per thousand The rampart, which occupies moat of the large lot at the rear of police head quarters, s formed of thousands of pav ing blocks removed from the streets of the city when the old fashioned pavement gave way to modern asphalt and con crete. Mr Swanson the purchaser proposes pro-poses to use the blocks in improving the tracks of the Orem electric lines. |