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Show Engineering Projects & Building Construction Under Way In The Intermountain States ows in Idaho county, same being F. A. ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION. 4 The project includes cyds excavation; 9,370 stayds overhaul; 900 cyds backfill; 13.1 cyds concrete A; 2.58 cyds concrete B; 1,360 lbs. reinforcing steel and 52 lin. feet corrugated pipe. Check for 5 per cent with bids. P. No. The county commissioners of Weber a county are advertising for bids on stretch of paving 755 feet in length in North Ogden. Bids will be received black top on two types of paving: and Utah standard concrete. Estimat-evalue of work is between $20,000 and $24,000. d ' The Phoenix Utility company, a subUtah sidiary organization of the Power and Light company, has been awarded the contract for the comsite panys power plant at the Cutlercounon the Bear river in Box Elder of the ty. The engineers estimate work is $5,000,000. Other firms who & Mabid on the word were: Strange O. guire Paving company; J. Utah Construction company, EngineerJas. J. Burke, Lynch-Cannoing company. Hey-Wort- h, 9-- d. 17,-98- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. Bids will be received by the city council of Nephi, Utah, up to March 18th, for the construction of a city hall and library building In that city. Flans and specifications from R. H. Evans, architect, Salt Lake City, upon deposit of $10. Check for 5 per cent with bids. In a cut in the 1925 budget for Salt Lake City, the proposed new fire station was eliminated. n Proposed expenditure of $1,136,000 of by the State of Utah in construction a link of the Pike Peaks ocean to ocean highway between the Colorado line and Price, Utah, has been The Utah Gas & Coke company announce that $200,000 of improvements in the form of gas mains, fuel piping, etc., will be made this year. Fifteen carloads of pipe have already been ordered and some of the work will commence at once. J. L. Griffith company of 3alt Lake has been awarded the contract for the construction of sewer in Sewer District No. 33, Pocatello! Idaho, on a hid of $23,369.75. Work has already Bids will be received by Geo. M. Borden, state highway engineer, Car-so- n City, Nevada, up to 1:30 p. m., March 25th, for construction portions of gravel surfaced road as follows: Proposal No. 1: Winnemucca to 8 miles east; proposal No. 2: 8 miles east of Winnemucca to Golconda; proposal No. 3: 8 miles east of Golconda to Stonehouse; propocal No. 4: above 3 sections combined in one proposal. Plans from Elko, Beno and Las Vegas and the district office at Car-soCity. Deposit, $15. Check for 5 per cent with bids. The contract for erecting a modern store building on the site of the Railroad Exchange hotel opposite the Union Pacific depot this city has been awarded to H. W. Baum company. Cost of the work will be from $20,000 to $25,000 and work has already An expenditure of $14,000 is being made in connection with additions to apartment house at 23 North First West, woned by Mrs. E. Brennan. plant of unknown cost is proposed in recent action by the city of Twin Falls, Idaho. The project depends upon a near future A municipal power bond issue. Bids for the completion of the city and county building at Provo, Utah, will be published within the next few days. Architect Joseph Nelson is prefor paring plans and specifications same. Work is estimated at a cost of $150,000, which sum will not include installation of an elevator and building of front steps. Plans and specifications are ready for Community hotel to be constructed at Ogden, Utah. Architects Hodgson & McClenehan. Bids will be called in the next few days. RURAL PROBLEM WILL GET SPECIAL ATTENTION The rural problem in its most important-phases will be given special attention at the second annual session of the National Summer School, which begins at the Utah Agricultural College, June 15. The marketing of farm products, efficient methods of crop production, ways to better health in rural communities, the problem of the rural church, correct diet in the home, preparation for parenthood, the problems of the rural school all of these questions will be made a part of the summer school curriculum. The work offered by Prof. James E. Boyle, extension Professor of Rural Economy, Cornell University, will be of particular importance and interest to the western farm and the student of western agriculture. He has made an exhaustive study of the marketing of farm products and is one of the leading experts on marketing in the United States today. with Prof. Boyle will be Dr. W. L. Wanlass, Dean of the School of Commerce and and Business Administration and Prof. E. B. Brossard, both of the College. Rural life in all its various phases including the rural church in its relation to the home and society, will' form the subject matter of courses to be offered by Charles A. Ellwood, head of the Department of Sociology, University of Missouri and president of the American Sociological Association. Associated with this work in sociology will be the classes offered in rural economics under the direction of Thomas Nixon Carver, of Harvard University, and former director of rural organization service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The question of disease prevention and rural public health will form the subject matter of courses to be offered by Dr. N. J. Rosenau. Irrigation Practice and the Economics of Irrigation will be under the direction of Dr. John A. Widstoe, formerly president of the Utah Agricultural College and of the University of Utah. The farmers wife and the student of home economics will be espec'ally interested in the courses in food selection and preparation, special diets for farm homes, dress making, millinery and the exceptional course in nutrition offered by Dr. Hopkins Univstanding autho blems of nutrit lecturer at - rsity ity jn X y&t on. jjV Co umbijitWC Educational Federation for Chiu courses in chiM of the greatesl and mothers. tral Mm,1 Beware of the bragging about being est performs his nothing. jnt 1 lds3 Co-operati- ng g ROVED ifcl PRC ) n. A petition has been received by city commissioners of Salt Lake City asking that paving and curbing be done between 7th and 9th South streets and another asking that sewer he extended so as to embrace 77th South from 9th East to Highland Drive and all streets running into 27th South street. The petitions have been referred to the Street department with the assurance of an answer within a few days. Bids .will be received by Road at 202 Pioneer building, Lewiston, Idaho, up until 2 p. m., March 14 for grading 1.17 miles of road between Whitebird and New Mead Com-mission- er The contract for construction of library building for the Brigham Young university at Provo, Utah, has been awarded to Paul Paulson on a bid of $88,000 (approx.). Work will commence immediately. .'Additions to the Roosevelt Junior High school and the Forest Elementary school to cost approximately $200,-00- 0 has been authorized by the Board of Education this date. The cost of work on the Roosevelt school will be about $150,000, and will consist of an addition containing eight class rooms, an auditorium, gymnasium and small cafeteria. Work will be of brick. The work on Forest school will cost about $50,000 and will consist of eight classrooms and an auditorium of brick. 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