Show eureka s postoffice Post office site to be cleared how now quite certain that this th IS city will have a new federal building the cost of which vill lall be 0 it is now practically that wara la Is to be taken up on burska s new federal building buil din dino tor for chica money v was as appropriated several years ago the amount set aside tor for this structure was 55 the sum in excess of 50 being for the site which N is purchased an I 1 paid tor for thia city would no doubt o 0 lano bad had the before this tim had it not been for the war which stopped all work of this na turo ture in 10 this v eee acus a isaae we are pub a notice in which the treas ury department of the government asks for bids for the clearing of the site for lureka s building the siti la is on upper main street on ground purchased from P J 1 Ii ennell a and nd as near as can be learned the con Bt ruction of the building will be un an der way within the next two or three months mr pennell has not yet received notice to move bis his build inge ingo from the lot but states that he will not demand the full sixty das notice if the government officials official i are to proceed with the con st ruction of the new federal build ja lae lug the reporter editor cannot help but feel just a little bit proud because calese of the part which this paper has played in the matter of getting this new building several years ago mr in the absence of a commercial club or other civic or started this movement single banded handed he ile communicated with senator reed smoot and was given assurance that a bill would be introduced in the senate ap acing money tor for a building sena tor smoot in line with his usual custom kept right on the job and eventually brought about the ampro pir privation pria lation tion following the moss of the war the postal authorities were opposed to the construction of the local build ing taking the stand that owing to high building costs the amount wis cot not large enough to erect a building ft to conform to the original plan the reporter editor again got busy and succeeded in getting a special investigation of building costs and at the same time asked senator smoot to oppose any effort to raise the original appropriation which would no doubt have delayed actual construction work a year or two senator smoot put the matter squarely up to the proper officials and told them that eureka would be satisfied with a 50 building it 1 Is quite evident that we are going to get such a structure and that but very little time will be lost in start ing the work |