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Show I CONTRACT LET I ON BIG PROJECT ' j.P. O'Neill Construction Company to Strip the Bedrock at the ' South Fork Dam Site) Orders Issued to Go Ahead With the I ' Work Beginning of the Big Reservoir. In responso to tho call of the city I for bids on tho clearing of tho ground ty bedrock, at tho sito of tho South B , Fork dam. the city engineer today I opened tho following bids: t J. P. O'Neill Con. Co. ... ...?3.103 I Wheelwright Con. Co -1.475 -.Moran Con. Co 4.405 These bids Include tho furnishing and placing of 30,000 foet of lumber I bo that tho trenching for tho dam will I bo.kcpt open and In condition for tho beginning of concreting In tho con-I con-I 8tructlon of tho foundation of tho dam. I Tho mayor InBtructed tho engineer B.. to closo up tlio contract with the ' O'Neill company, tho lowest bidders. without delay and order work Btarted immediately. Tho contract Is the lowest on that kind of work let In this cltv In some 1 lime and Is at the rate of 03 cents i per cubic yard, thero being 3,500 cu- 1 blc yards of material to bo moved. f This Is 2 cents lower per yard than a . contract let last iveek by tho Davis & Weber CoujUles Canal company. This Is the most favorable season i and lime of the year In which to (have tho work of stripping tho bedrock bed-rock begun, as tho water Is out of the ground, with the stream ai, the lowest stage In tho year. If the city succeeds in showing upT ' bedrock tho entire dlsUincc at an out- lav of only ?3,105, tho farmers of ' Weber county will begin to censure themBolves for not long ago discovering discover-ing tho possibilities of tho dam slto i and having erected thereon on a dam of largo proportions. With tho uncoer!ng of bedrock, now is tho time to subscribe for stock. Tho subscription blanks are 1 at tho Standard office and can be it signed .it any tlmo by those who L. think favorably of the undertaking and are ready to invest In tho enterprise. enter-prise. oo lies will join us. Wo have already purchased a gasoline plowing outlit, plows and horses and will have our farms In good shape by spring " Tents are ready to receive and shelter shel-ter tho pioneer colonists until they can erect houses, and the beginning of what may become a great movement move-ment will be made under favorablo auspices oo |