| Show from the daily of august 11 THE CIVIL the contract for miles to lie let sast friday at kansas A representative of THE STAND IRD took to interview mcjohn K bothwell yesterday as to the progress 0 work on the canal tu the question haa the contract for the twelve miles of calyon work been li t yet he gaid no but it ft ill be nest friday I 1 understand that the contractor to whom work will be let will be mr ana garland of kansas I 1 received a dispatch yesterday irom mr conklin stating that the contract would be awarded on that day mr figurea were as follows earth excavation exta 9 4 10 ants loose rock rock 78 cents tunneling 70 this will show the total figure in round numbers to be ane agures were not as low as borne other bids but this man was preferred by the company in fact the figures were as a rule be low our own estimates and in every way have yon any idea as to when ho will begin operations 1 I expect that he will go to work at once and organize a working force I 1 think he will be out in about a week from the eining of the contract and he will doubtless employ all the men that be can get jo this part of the country aa soon as he arrives the vexed question aben are you gogoe to begin hill forever ba disposed of territorial engineer of wyoming hia been engaged by the company aa ona of their engineers ha will ba here in about a week and rill thereafter spend a week out of aery month on the works he will act in coi inaction wilh mr schuyler of california mr leria at present in honolulu preparing pie paring to make a report on an im dam erected here but he is expected here on the of august have you any engineers at work at the present time 7 yes sir there are now five corps of engineers at w aik oik two along bear river one at bear lake one along the tributaries tributa ries of licar river and the in odeo canyon surveying tor the conduit for oden city AD eminent engineer has been engaged to take charge of the construction of the ogden city water works and he ditl be herein ten days this work however is all on the eastern branch of the cabal on the west end it is not likely that the prairie work will be let to contractors I 1 think that we w ill put a price on the work at so much per yard divide it into bnell sections and give atie work to the people abia we cor bider the better way though we did not deem it safe to do so on the heavy work in tha can on among other things which indicate that fork on tha canal will soon begin i the fact that com pitted a telephone line from to the a distance of ten miles the feasibility of the plan aad alie successful completion of this great remains unshaken then VPS air it is a sure thing the trouble in idaho which telegraphed tar and wide lias been exploded and the charges shown to be ulee mini there is now nothing to be feared from that quarter the canal will be built and everything is at present working Lt clumon ilion tie enjoyable series of on delivered at various parta the county by arof L 1 and ifon stanord foiw continued con tinned by arof alace last oven lc at t lacaille mr having ln cn unavoidably detained from attending wai a well filled bouse to greet tho anil tho aswin bly appeared to greatly enjoy the lecture ate saries wilt be continued until aery ia visited |
