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Show B CITY WORk AT LOW COST H I j "By refusing to accept the bid of last H yea1' on- the outfall sewer, the city commis- H sioners of Ogden saved the community ov- H ' er half a million dollars. H t "At the bidding on Wednesday, attend- H ' cd by conti'actors from many piuts of the H 1 United States, .the lowest figures of B . $351,000 were $610,000 below the offer H ,. made last summer. At that time there H Jo impatient people urging and insist- H Ij ' ing that the city commission proceed ev- H .r t noso prices, but the folly which H , would ruve attended such -action is now H , fully disclosed. H A I Any money spent at the peak of big B prices would have been thrown away. H " "As it is, Ogden, by widely advertising H j the work, has obtained pre-war prices. B H "One of the rehiarkable features of the B it . bidding was the wide range of estimated B k B "One firm went as high as .$S6)fS)S7. B . - which, compared witli tlie low figures, B , shows a difference of over half a million H i dollars. 1 'f ' "'i'he low bidders were $118,000 under H , tn viowcbt. H ' "Local contracting concerns were from H $200,000 to $500,000 above the outsiders. B M .. bidding discloses the fact that re- B adjust ..ent is well advanced in the matter ' B ,'c works. At.no time .within tlw B past seven years c6uld Ogden liave enter- B d into a contract compa'rable in price B with the figures received on Wednesday." B ' The above from the Ogden Standard- B L Examiner leads ais to remark that Cache B ' Countys' road bond comes on at a propi- B tious time, and wp can all thank our hickv B ; I stare that it did not happen lastyear wlien J prices were at the peak. Six hundred thousand dollars last year would hardly have paid for the engineering. IB ta t- |