Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-21 | Page 11 | Bids in for Large Foundry Plant, to be Erected

8 BIOS II FOB URGE I FDumv pun-, I TO BE ERECTED Es R. B. Porter, second vice president 3 : of the Western Foundry & Machine f , Company, said that bids for the 100,- f if 000 foundry plant to be erected on the $ ! $Ite now occupied by the Western 5 j Foundry Works would be opened to. day, but that the contract would not jj H be awarded until Monday or possibly 6 later. 5 ! "It all depends upon the figures, in ;j the bids," said Mr. Porter. "We will t ? not award the contract today simply I . for the reason that J. W. Silver, the general manager, is in Salt Lake and j notified this morning lhat he would ' not be in the city until ,Monday. When we received this information the officers of the company decided ; not to ward the contract until Mr. J Silver had Teturned." ; The location on the present site, at '; 2257 Lincoln avenue and occuping i an area between Twenty-second and ' Twenty-third street and back from Lincoln avenue is considered advan tageous for many reasons. '