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Show OGDEN RIVER BILL IS BEING PREPARED Measure Providing for Dredging' and Changing of Course Will Be Presented Pre-sented to Legislature. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Dec. 7. Provision for important import-ant improvements which have to do with dredging the Ogden river, changing Its course through the northern part of the city and erecting substantial levees, will be contained In a proposed bill which Is now being prepared for introduction at the next session of the state legislature. At a meeting of the citv commissioners this morning City Attorney E. T. Hula-niskl Hula-niskl was Instructed to confer with City Engineer Joseph M. Tracy on subjects which are to be included as provisions in the bill. j The city commissioners today accepted t lie hid of Gibbons & Reed, contractors of Salt Lake City, for the construction of I the Madison avenue storm sewer from Twenty-tilth street to the Ogden river, a distance of about six blocks. The hid was $27,849.15 and was submitted on monolithic construction. Five other firms submitted bids on the work and the amounts ranged as high as $35,000. |