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Show THE CITIZEN 10 Engineering Projects & Building Construction Under Way In The Intermountain States ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION for Portland cement and 4 for bituminous concrete, the type selected. Pavbase, with ing will consist of a top and will be 18 feet wide. 4-in- The weekly report of the engineering and building construction is announced by the Associated General Contractors of America, and is as follows: Bids will be received up to 10 a. m. October 8th by W. A. Leatham, pity recorder, this city, for constructing curb, gutter and pavement in Paving Extension No. 195 Military Drive, 9th South to 17th East, from Military Drive to Yale Avenue and Yale Avenue from 17th to 18th East. Cost of work is. estimated at $2,234.91. Plans are ready. Deposit of $5. Bids on Clearfield, Utah, proposed water system, were opened September 22nd, but it was found that low bid exceeded amount appropriated by city for the work. Bids were therefore rejected and bidders are asked to refigure the job with some changes making a difference in cost of work. Bids will be opened again at tember 29th in office of Caldwell & 8 p. m., Sep- Richards, Engineers, Templeton building, city. Plans may be had from the engineers. 2-in- ch ch The Utah Construction company has been awarded work to cost $250,000, which consists of reconstruction of road beds, trackage and bridges for the Denver & Rio Grande Destem, according to announcement' from the railroad company, work is between Cedar and Verde, Utah. Morrison-Knudse- n Co. of Boise, Idaho, have been awarded contract to construct a unit of the Sanpitch drainage district of Ephriam, Utah, on a bid of $11,790. The work will consist of approximately 83,000 icyds of excavation and building of bridges, head-gate- s, flumes, etc. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION $7,000 is already available for a new recreational hall in a week's subscription being taken up in Murray, Utah,' for such a building, to be erected at a cost of $30,000 in the near future. The building will be known as Community Recreational Hall. The L. D. S. church has agreed to subscribe Com$10,000 toward construction. mittee consists of Barr Carlisle, D. W. Moffatt, Leonard Nielson, A. D. Cooper and Joseph Berry, all of Murray. Lyon Construction Co. of Ogden, Utah, have been awarded the contract for construction of Section 1, Huntington Canyon, Manti forest road project in Emery county, Utah, 2.89 miles of graveled surface highway let by Bureau of Public roads on a bid of $58,804.18. The Bureau expressed dissatisfaction at the high rate of bids and at first announced that they would not let the work. This seems inconsistent with their recent statement that contractors are not getting enough money for work and always bid under the engineers 'estimates. Fetzer & De Young have taken out a permit to construct two wings to Hawthorne Ward building of L. D. S. church. Construction of this addition is to cost about $30,000, and will be done Union Construction Co. of Ogden are low bidders on Panguitch-Tropi- c Dump Section, 2.89 miles highway in Garfield County, Utah, let by Bureau of Public Roads. Bid $39,785.68. There were three other bidders. Joseph Monson,. architect of Salt Lake City, announces that ground has 0 been broken for construction of a No protests were heard at a meeting of the city council of Murray, Utah, held September 24th, against construction of sidewalk to be constructed in Sidewalk Project No. 19, in that city. This consists of about 1 mile of sidewalk and will be let to contract immediately. F. A. P. No. 42, consisting of about six miles of highway south from Roberts to the Bonneville county line, will be completed this fall, according to announcement. Morrison-Knudso- n Co. of Boise, Idaho, has been awarded contract to construct $.075 miles of bitulithic paving between Nampa and Caldwell, Idaho, on a bid of $121,779.53. The engineers' estimate of the work was $165,000. There were 11 bidders, 7 at once. Two large dormitories are contem plated for construction by the Univer sity. of Utah in the near future, ac cording to announcement. $50,-00- at L. D. S. church to be constructed Blackfoot, Idaho. Bishop W. E. Bills is in charge of construction. Commissioner George P. Billings of Provo, Utah, announces that a bandstand will be erected in Pioneer Park, that city, to cost about $5,000. Funds are being raised for completion of University ward chapel of the L. D. S. church, this (City, to cost $100,350. Pope & Burton, architects. Frank Pingree, bishop. DUCKS ARE BECOMING MORE SCARCE EVERY YEAR Did you go duck hunting Well, if you did not, you missed the best day of the season, generally speaking. There are less ducks in the country today than ever and outside of a few ideal clubs, duck hunting will be a thing of the past. More hunters re turned the opening day, many not get- ting a., single shot, without any ducks . than ever before. Many of the boys who went out to the former sloughs made by surplus water from the Utah Copper mills west of the city found the sloughs drained and no water there, and of course no ducks. . There was some good shpoting on the grounds of several of the clubs near the moiith of the Jordan river. The shooting along the east shore of the Great Salt lake between here and ; Ogden did not amount to much. 'Shooting in that district opened at 5 oclock and by the time it got daylight there were no ducks in sight, and the few ducks that did try to come in were driven back shooters. Eight by the lake sink-boof the boys from this city who went to Layton to shoot did not fire their guns and they were pretty sore to see shooting start so early and against the law. The federal government is getting a late start in protecting the duck and providing breeding places for them. Efforts have been made to pass federal legislation but such legislation has been fought by market men, although the present year it appears that we may get some results. For twenty years the breeding grounds of ducks have been gradually drained for cultivation. The duck disease in Utah has killed millions of ducks annually since 1909. Reports have it that the ducks have escaped the destructive malady this year. To the south of us, the farmers in parts of New Mexico and Arizona have to protect their grain and alfalfa fields from the night ravages of ducks and geese, and many of the farmers employ hunters to shoot ducks and geese at night. It is not an unusual thing for a farmer to get up in the morning and find his wheat field or alfalfa patch gone. No ducks are seen in the daytime but when night comes the birds come in by the thousands. This is a situation that cannot be handled by law. If the farmer does not shoot the ducks they eat up his crops and he must raise crops to live. While the farmer is allowed to shoot the ducks to protect his crops, he must not pick up the dead bird, but must allow them to lay on the field to rot. Another insensible thing to do. The dead birds should be used for food and not wasted, but evidently some politician thinks he is making a hit by having such a law in force. Had it not been for our big duck clubs in this part of the country where ducks are protected throughout the year, outside of the shooting season, there now would be no ducks in this state. The clubs have provided water and feed grounds for the ducks. Wherever we find no clubs, we find no ducks, generally . speaking. The way things have been going for the past ten years, the clay pigeon will be the best bet in the near future. . . x. and-breedin- g Judging the efficient way in which they threw mud bombs those defeated New York mayoralty candidates could get good jobs in the airplane ENGLAND ON BRINK OP REVOLUTION, SAYS TR(ft Washington, D. C., Srpt. 3o. book just published, wriiten by Trotzky, the Russian dictator dec that Great Britain is on the brii a revolution. The counlry, he has reached the stage of disint tion, and he blames the result America and not Russia, bee America has now become the lea capitalistic nation of the world. Ttrotzky's wish is probably father of his thought, but it ig mitted that there is a great dea social unrest among Britains ers, and this was increased ra than dispelled by the results of recent labor conference at Sfca: ough. Trotzky's blaming this on to Ai ica is of course fanciful, as the sian Reds have been doubly bui England since that country recoi the soviet government of Russia the danger in Great Britain is ally recognized as having come communistic sources. Trotzky admits that the Ub States is not leaning so much to muism as the European nations, he has hopes. ; c In revolutionary development erica does not stand in the fi rank, says Trotzky. The Amei bourgeoise will still enjoy the lege of witnessing the destrqctii its older European sister. But the; evitable hour will strike for Ame: capital also; the American oil steel magnates, trust and export ers, the multimillionaires of York, Chicago and San Francisco performing though unconsciously their predestined revolutionary fi tion. And the American prolet: will ultimately discharge theirs.1 Trotzkys book, it is pointed here, will not create any favo: sentiment for the recognition of Russia by the United States gov ment. 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