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Show I WORK ON THE ARSENAL. LH I n to yesterday, plans for Ogden arsen.il were slow in matenal-iring, matenal-iring, but now. with the specifications al hands, work on the big government gov-ernment project may be expected te pro forward nt a rapid rate The contraet for the laying of ten miles of rails within the ar-senal ar-senal area has been awarded to an Ogden company, and adertise-ments adertise-ments are calling for bids on sixty buildings to be constructed This is flu- l&rgesl single contra I to be placed before our builders build-ers and contemplates a campaign which will require the expenditure of over two million dollars. When the railway is completed and the structure erected in which munitions of war are to be stored, great quantities of explo- 1 gives and military equipment will he moved from the east to the arsenal ar-senal and a permanent guard will be established Later bn additions .should be made to the arsenal, ami finally I Ogden should become recognized as the hub of the defense of thf I Pacific coast. I It was for Ogdenites to keep awake to the possibilities of thi I radical departure in the defensive plans of the United States gov-j gov-j eminent and now that Ogden has been seleeted a- the strategic poilK of military operations in the west, to see to it that Ogden gets everything every-thing its geographical position warrants in a military wa . Work at the arsenal is starting late in the season, but that is not J a source of regret The project will be well advanced before winter win-ter retards building, and next spring a large fore of men will be on the job and Ogden will face a highly prosperous year |