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Show Ogden Company Gets Contract To Build I Arsenal Railroad I ; Work on the railroad spurs nt the Ogden arjtenul will be started during I the coming week, the contruct for the I work having been let to tho Tuylor-I Tuylor-I Child Construction company of ogden inecording to an announcement made Slant night by Captain W. P. Katz. In Charge Of construction work for the D Bi Dal The local firm underbid all ilval concerns, offering to complete thf work for $94,500. Awarding of the contract seta at rest certain rumors irculated throughout the city during the week to the effect that the government had halted work On the arMcn.-il and that It might be lost to this cltj A telegram from Washington con- Iveyed the Information to Captain Katz The contracts win be sinned Hondas It Is salt, and work probably started Wed neaday Several cars of steel hac arrived for tho railroad spurs and others are now en route to this city, according' to word given out last night The steel 19 being shipped from Norfolk, Va The officers In charge of the local headquarters of the Ugden arsenal are row awaiting plans for the constructor, construc-tor, of fifty-three buildings. With the arrival of the plans bids will be asked, received ami forwarded to Washington. Washing-ton. It Is expected that work on tho erscnal proper will be started during 'the, early part of October Two million dollars has been appropriated appro-priated M congress for the constructing construct-ing of the buildings, but it la .said that i" fore the arsenal is entirely completed complet-ed the figures will be .eiil to more than six million dollars. More than a million dollars will be spent in f r iplit bllll alone, it Is Bald With the awarding of the contract for the construction work on the buildings more than BOO men will be employed. The site at Suntet roers more than 2.000 acre9. all of which will be used, according to present p.'ans. Soldiers a 111 be constantly on gUI rd after tho buildings are constructed con-structed and the plant when once In operation will employ more than 1,000 men. Several cars of tile will arrle in Ogden next week en route to the arsenal. Major Ora Bundy and Captain W P Katz officers In charge of the locnl office and also In charge of the construction con-struction work are awaiting the plans for the buildings before formulating definite plana. |