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Show THE BSG DAM - WILL BE BUJLT Great Progress Is Being Made in Completing All Preliminary ArrangementsMen Ar-rangementsMen From All Over the Nation Want to Bid on the Big Project-Bofore Dam Is Half Finished, Ogden Will Boom WiuGlasmann Getting Letters About Water Rights. At the office of Bostaph &. Roche, ..Rineers for tho Ogdon River Reservoir Reser-voir company, everybody is busy getting get-ting out tho last proofs for tho printing print-ing of contract blauka on which bids are to be made. Applications for permission per-mission to bid came from Chicago, St. Louis. Pittsburg, San Francisco. Portland, Demcr and Salt Lake, in addition to local applications. It was shown that from the time that Ogden City withdrew from the South Fork i Reservoir company, the engineers wero kept busy making stirrers, stir-rers, mnps, plans and specifications. The engineers' offices arc simply co-ercd co-ercd with blue prints, maps and plans. It was not generally known that the engineers were working so hard on the plans and specifications. It developed de-veloped that from the day the Ogden River Rosen oir company was formod, fivo'months ago. the engineers wero 'icpt busv preparing tho planB for tho ontracto'rs. One contractor said. "The city commissioners thought the South Fork dam would be killed If thev withdrew from the company. But 'Willie Waterman' fooled them all right." Five months ago the facts we;e published that the Ogden River Reservoir Res-ervoir company was incorporated, and yet the city made no effort to build the dam, but when the now company advertised for bids the city asked the new compauy to sell Us real estate "Why," said Mr. Glasmann, "our coin-panv coin-panv already has signed a contract with the engineers to erect pari of the dam to cost over S100.000. We could 1 not sell land after makins such a con-r con-r tract. As to the statement of Sara Browning that the city would bae ! built the dam by this time but for tho ' compan filing on the water, that Is all hog wash. We did not do a thing until March 14, 1912. Up to that time the city did nothing hut withdraw from tho arrangemonts Sam Browning helped mo to make last year with tho farmers. Why did ho wltimraw from his own plans plana that ho helped to make? "On March U, when I saw turning against tho reservoir the men who first were for the South Fork company, com-pany, I decided to get busy and form a now company and build tho dam without tho aid of the knockers. They thought I was bluffing. Thoy thought I wanted to force the city to build tho dam. Now, because they have discovered dis-covered thoir error, they want to got back again to Just where the matter was when I first proposed the dam, when I waB mayor. Our company means business, but we are not going to Interfere with tho city. The city can build a dam on Its own site or can Join with us for less than , it will cost them to build alone We '' dou't care which plan tho city adopts If the city thinks we are taking anything any-thing that does not belong to us, let them take us to court. That will settle set-tle the matter. "The facts arc that at least part of the city government did not want to continue the South Fork project slra-plv slra-plv because I started It They wanted either to kill the whole project or to start a new plan of their own. 1 am willing to let them work out a new plan. "One thing Is sure. Ogden Is goln-r to hum soon. I am getting letters from nil oer the United States asking ask-ing abdut water and land. The big trade papers in the nation have beeu printing Information about the reservoir reser-voir and, as soon as the work Btarts. the business mon of Ogdon will find things looking bettcrv Oct ready for Greater Ogden. Let the knockers knock." |