Show Witt Construction Of Provo Is Awarded Contract For Moab's New Elementary School Building Lack of housing for workers said to influence cost of building H. greatly-H. G G. Blumenthal Co of f Provo holds contract for plumbing and L. L C. C Guyman Guymon Co of same city bids low and gets electrical contract con con- tract tract Costs may be pared by further consideration Everybody Kicked This Mine Around And Ran RanAll RanAll RanAll All Over It Not Guessing That's True True True-everybody's everybody's been going by what may turn tum out to be a mine of real value U Its It's right on top of Blue Hill and E E. E A. A Vaughn and his partner Lou Case have already shipped ship ped pod seven tons calculated to torun torun torun run 80 with hot bot spots as high as aa 5 Vaughn who has haa been a apart apart apart part time miner on a lease from the owner Leo Christensen Chris Chris- and Pete Shumway kicked out the first ore with his hla root foot under a pinion about feet from the edge of on top of Blue Slue Hill lust Just at atIt 14 It miles from Moab Since then the boys have han been mining with a pick and pickIng picking pick pick- Ing up the fines with a abroom abroom abroom broom and dustpan So It Its It's destined to be known as a. the Broom Mine The whole area for over feet Is la hot with showing on all seams of the surface It t may be spotty but a tree Ire might mean neon thousands and that that's more i than possible The Witt Construction Co of oo Provo has been awarded the Gie general contract for the construe tion of the new elementary school at Moab It was announced ed today by Helen IMon M M. Knight superintendent The Witt WI tt company was low bidder among eight construction firms which submitted bids toe for forthe the contract Their bid was However this amount will be cut considerably through deletion of such things as IllS hard hud surfaced areas and others which were originally part p of rth the plans plana and through economical purchasing purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing of materials These Theme savings will not lower the quail ty y of any materials used Mrs Knight stated The Board of Education also awarded award the plumbing and heat ing ng contract to Ito H. H G. G Blumenthal Co of Provo This concern had submitted a low bid of A third Provo company L L. C C. Cr Guymon Guyman Co was given the el electrical else elec c- c contract Their bid also lowest of those offered was 34 34 Both Bath ith the e plumbing and heating and electrical costs ma maybe may maybe be cut cute through h further consideration tion of needs by the architect and the companies concerned Mrs Knight said The Cie bids were were opened do the county court house on Novem November November ber 5 S. At that time art lit was sound found that all bids bids' were considerably considerably consider consider- ably higher than the architects architect's estimate of and the board boaro of education tabled de decisive dalve action setting last Tues Tuesday day evening a a ama a time for fur f.- consideration ther c At the Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day meeting a a countywide wide committee e was was present P offering of ferine their views and advice to the die board Following discussions this committee recommended that the low ow bids be accepted Final action was wal not taken a k ever until Thursday at ata a meetIng meet meet- meeting Ing In Provo with the architect Claude Ashworth Ash Mrs EnI and members of the board II r While the total costs will be higher than tte original estimate the Ithe square foot costs casts were round to I to 1st within reason as compared other types of construction boll at Moab and throughout the fee state Some iSome reasons reasons for far the seemingly high bidding resulted result ed ed In n freight keight charges and sand fer e tact fact that construction oom leg les would likely have to build buU some type of temporary housing howIng howing how hous ing for tor workers x The architects architect's ts t's of fete fee e is 6 of bV total bid Mrs Knight reported that t the Witt Company would move oas oM the e site In the very near future with completion of r k plan planned eq for lor earl early Aug August s' s Ii r |