Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-21 | Page 1 | Aqueduct Bids Will be Opened

AQUEDUCT BIDS BIOS WILL BE OPENED Second Offers to Be Studied Tuesday Special to The Telegram PROVO Nov 21 Bids 21 Bids on two major divisions of the Deer creek reclamation project will be opened for the second time Tuesday at 10 a. a m. m in the south courtroom of the city and county building The bids according to E. E O. O Larson Larson Layson Lar Lay son construction engineer for the United States bureau of reclamation reclamation reclamation tion are on the Draper Alpine-Draper and Olmstead tunnels of the mile 40 aqueduct which will take water from the Deer Creek dam in Provo canyon to Salt Lake City A call for new bids was necessitated necessitated necessitated when low contractors in the bids opened October 27 21 reported reported-a a material error in their estimate of costs and asked release of their obligations The Olmstead tunnel will be feet long and the Draper Alpine-Draper tunnel through the backbone of the the ridge separating Salt Lake and Utah counties will be three miles long Total cost of the two tunnels will run un b be bey i. i e n. n ami a. it was reported