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Show fl O O PACIFIC COAST I COMPANY MAKES LOWEST OFFER Contract for Great Building Work South of City to Be Let This Week WORK MUST BE STARTED TEN DAYS AFTER AWARD Vast Scope of Project Shown By Plans Held in Ogden Dffifip Bids for the construction of the 60 l-ulldlngs for the Igden arsenal were opened yesterday at the government arsenal offices In the Colonel Hudson building. ftovernor Simon Bamlvrger was present when the bids were opened. T( LOW BIDDI Its I-ang. Bergslorm and company of Batn Francisco submitted the lowet hid 'on the entire construction th. ; r estl-pnatea estl-pnatea being 11.174,947.00 w. m. Sutherland Suth-erland company of St. Login, Mo.. wa second lowest with 1.287. 443. 00. The KlUB Lumber company of Char-lottevUle, Char-lottevUle, Ya . submitted a bid of S2.-987.00(1 S2.-987.00(1 which was the highest received. receiv-ed. James Mlick company of Chicago made a bid of (1,791. 876. and the CerApbell Building oinpuny of Utah i entered a bid of $1.384, 500 and the Union Brick and Building company of Chicago submitted a bid of 11.498.-300. 11.498.-300. The Campbell Building company of Ftah was the only I tah firm to enter into the compctltle bids for the con- tract. COLONEL IS COMIXG Colon. I R L. Freed, ndall. chief of the i bird listrict with headquarters at Washington wll arrive in igden Monday Mon-day to make final preparations for the awarding of the contract. It was origin ori-gin II propos.-d to have the bids forwarded for-warded io Washington bjt ihe war de-Ipartment de-Ipartment officials being anxious to get the work started, ordered Colonel Preedendall to make his final decision Ion the awarding of the contract In Igdi n. Both Major Ora Bundy and Captain W . P. K hz officers In charge of th-ii th-ii ISO al ited last night that the contract con-tract would be awarded during the coming week. The government rules on the awarding award-ing of th" Contract call for the commencement com-mencement of work not later than ten j days from the date the contracts is let. I B SI I'l l II s m i Hi All materials for the arsena, will be furnished by the government which will also Include cars, trucks, wagons , and Other vehicles used for transporting transport-ing purposes. The contract when awarded will call for construction work lo be completed b iim.. l Th.- plans . all for the construction con-struction of the following ( PE OF PROJECT I Thirty-five ordnance store magazines, maga-zines, one administration building one observation tow-r, eleven latrines, one range guard house, one range stable house one range office, two repacking hOU es, one general store house, one guard and fire house, one heating plant, one machine shore one locomotive locomo-tive house, one garage, one stable, one 'ash pit, non-cllmhubh fences, one lo- i.tl.- v:i-i-r tin' r.iiiM.li.ti..., -. ii 1 1 covet, pumps and connections, one concrete reservoir, air lift pumps, v. at. r distribution sxstem, ejector sta- jtlon, sewage tank, sludge bed sprinkling sprink-ling flit. r. general layout sleam distribution dis-tribution piping, and an outside electrical elec-trical plant. One thousand men will 0 employed during the time the buildings nr. under un-der construction, the work to be rush- I ed to completion according to the officers of-ficers in chayge More than K. 000. 000 has been al-lote.l al-lote.l by the government for the materials ma-terials for the ..instruction and this figure It Is said, will be swelled to more than Irt.OOO.OOO before the construction con-struction work Is completed. |