Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-12 | Page 9 | Contract Awarded for Building of Arsenal

I. CONTRACT AWARDED FOR BUILDING OF ARSENAL I I W. M. Sutherland Co., of St. Louis Gets Big Job; Work to 1 Start in Ten Days: Sixty Separate Buildings to Be I Erected: Force of 1000 Men to Be Employed; Expect I I Work Finished by Next Summer. The United Slates war depa rtmeni wH awarded the contract for tho construc I Uon ot the iRcifii arsenal id I In- Y M. 1 1 Sutherland oompany of si Louis, Mo ,T who last week made .1 hid of 51 -ST - fH 44 3. Although the Lang LterRxtrotn jH company of San Francisco were low bidders with 11174,947. the St Ioulf !r afl concern throuph their cn rl .11 arsonal construction was awarded the V'L yMt undertaking. Thej recently con-1 gP structed the Edgewater arsenal ut Chicago. '.M Other bids for the construction work; ejLfl were submitted by King Lumber com-! pony of Charlottesville, Va The Union. Brick and Building company of Chi-1 JHH 'ago, the I ampbeli lUiildlnff company i"M of Utah and the James Hack company' ji of Chicago ' jAi The government rules for th ! awarding of the contract call for the ; construction work to be started within I ten days from the date the contract is signed Colons 1 1 ii i . Fredendal, chief of he third district with headquarters at San Kranclseo was In Ogden last week making final plans prior to the awarding award-ing of the contract Colonel Fredendal Freden-dal mated while here that the wori on the arsenal would be rushed to completion the entire piunt be completely com-pletely finished by June i, 1921. All materials fur the building will be furnished by the government Trucks, motorcycles and other equipment equip-ment Will also le furnished by the- gov- ei nment BIG FOR E OI WORKERS One thousand men will be employed; during the course of construction, the work to be rushed according to Major Orfl Bund) and Captain W. P K its officers In charge. More than $2,000,000 has been al-loted al-loted by the government for the materials ma-terials for the construction This figure, fig-ure, however, Will be swelled to mors than $ 000,000 before the work Is completed It Is said MANY BUILDINGS The plans call for the construction of the following Thlrtylflve ordnance, store maga sines, one administration build ing on j observation tower, eleven latrlnea on range gutird house one range stable house, one range office, two repacking houses, one general store house, one Kitard. and fire house one heating Hunt, one macnlne shop, one locomo-tlve locomo-tlve house, one garage, one stable, one .isj, jut. non-cllmbable fences, ik- lo-i lo-i emotive water tank, foundation and over, pumps and connections, one concrete reservoir, air lift pumps, water distribution system, ejector Station, Sta-tion, sewage lank sludge bed sprinkling sprink-ling filter, general layout steam distribution dis-tribution piping and an outside electric elec-tric 1 1 plant