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Show WPA for installation of the f lowing utilities at the new nations: na-tions: Sanitary sewer system 1 is 55 per cent complete; 5t0 sewer system, which is 25 per cl complete, and gas distribution Sv tem, which is 50 per cent comple-V j Construction At j Ogden Shell i Plant Progresses OGDEN Construction work on I important additions to a new 37-millimeter 37-millimeter shell loading plant .-it I Ogden ordnance depot is now approximately ap-proximately 10 weeks ahead of schedule and still gaining, announced an-nounced Lieutenant Colonel Elmer G. Thomas, constructing quartermaster quarter-master for Ogden and vicinity, Monday. The new units include a shell loading line, a fuse loading line and a primer loading line 53 buildings being constructed under a $2,305,000 contract by Olson Construction Con-struction Company and Dobson & Robinson of Lincoln, Neb., and Peter Kiewit Sons company of Omaha, and 10 additional igloo type magazine being built under , a $105,561 contract by James J. Burke & Company of Salt Lake City. j The 63 new building units are in addition to about 100 other 37-millimeter 37-millimeter shell loading buildings recently completed. Production of shells is underway in the completed com-pleted units, which include two shell loading lines, a fuse loading line and a black powder pelleting plant. Cost of the entire 37-millimeter plant, including buildings but not equipment, will total about $6,-000,000. Construction work is well under way on every one of the new shell, fuse and primer loading buildings. All concrete on the project is expected ex-pected to be poured by the end of the present month. Structural steel has already been erected for four of the new buildings. The installation of plant utilities utili-ties under the $2,305,000 contract, whioh also includes construction of the new shell, fuse and primer loading units, are at the following stages of completion: Grading for concrete pavement and sidewalks, 75 per cent complete; concrete roads, five per cent complete; sidewalks, side-walks, 30 per cent complete; exterior ex-terior electrical ducts, 75 per cent complete; underground steam ahcT ai rducts, 55 per cent complete; lightning protection system, 45 per cent complete, and water system, 40 per cent complete. Railroad lines for the additions are being constructed by crews hired by the constructing quartermaster, quarter-master, and are about 60 per cent complete. Labor is being furnished by the |