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Show AWARDING CONTRACT Oil STATE SCHOOL i BUILDING t the mc-eting of the directors of the Utah State School for the Deaf I and Blind contracts for the construction construc-tion of a new kindergarten and dorrnl tory building at the school were awarded as follows Genera construction, C f Dins-more Dins-more Ogden. Inn ling system, o I shans and tkins. Ogden; and plumbing plumb-ing Halverson Bros . Ogdn The total cost of the building will be ?3G. 447. the amount being well under the 137,500 appropriated nearly two years igo for the work. The new building will be the first absolutely fire-proof building on the! grounds of the state institution. It Will be two stories high covering 'ground space of 140 by 65 feot. west i 'of the present main building, and will I be built entirely of reinforced con-, con-, crete and brick, I Through the eonstructlon of this building Bupt F M I'riggs and the trustees of the school bavc planned to j segregate the deaf and blind babies 1 from the older studenis of the school to prevent them from learning the 'manual system of talking and. in---IfTd to give them a greater opuor-I opuor-I '.unity to learn the use of the voice, 'n much the same way as Helen K-! , lar was taught. Leslie S. Hodgson, architect for Ithe building, stated yesterday that the contractors had hern asked lo assemble as-semble their material, and that the excavating would be started Immediately Immedi-ately The bidders and bids on the work ! w ere as follow s : C; F. Dinsmore, 130,941; West a: Thornton $32,700; C -I Humphris, ..4,79o- George A V'lr.tmeyer & Sons $35,338: Levedahl & Jackson, $35.:'8. Villadson Brothers $35,999; J T. Newton Sons, $:'.S.::77: George Burnhani. 13! Bids for the installation of the i heating system follow Welshan & 1 tkins. $1,993 ; Halverson Brothers, $2,008"; Lee Balls ntyne, $2.t7S; Midg-ley Midg-ley & Evnns, $2,252; H. C. Say. $2,270. HalversoP Brothers, who secured the work of insta"ing the plumbing, bid $3. ."If., the other bids being Lee Ballantyne; $3,714; Welshans & Atkins. At-kins. $4,089; Midgley Brothers & Evans! Ev-ans! $50 |