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Show f MAJOR ANSWERS IS.L. CONTRACTOR ; Reply to charges that the govern- - ment spent almost $36,000 more by constructing the new medical barracks at Fort Douglas aa a W PA project than would have "been necessary had a private con-"tractor con-"tractor erected the building waa tnade Friday by Major John M. -Rhodes, construction quartermaa-'- -ter at Fort Douglas. ' The charges were made recently Z. fcy Mark Tuttle, manager of the .lntermountain branch of the Asso-cisted Asso-cisted General Contractors, who 'Raid a contractor's bid of 157,000 -was rejected aa "too high." The Tbuilding actually coat $92,644.48, he taald. "Mr. Tuttle'a figures,' Major I Rhodes said, "are nearly correct, Z but he forgot one Hem. The 57,- - 000 bid waa for the superstructure -only. We already had spent a "large portion of the 136,000 dlffer- 1 ence la leveling and landscaping -the ground, digging the basement 2 and putting ln gas,waterand - sewer lines." |