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Show ARSENAL WILL ! BE IMPORTANNT ARMY CENTER The Ogden arsenal is destined to1 be one of the most Important military stations iti the United States in the I opinion of officers attached to the lo-i lo-i cal ordnance headquarters. , Resides the ordnance -department,! I av iation and the quartermaster corps! will hav e location here, It Is believed, j Particular attention is to be paid) to the expansion and improvement of the air service. Irrespective of what lis accomplished by the postOfflce department de-partment with Its aerial mall experiments, experi-ments, according to government re-' porls I With the ereeilon of the Ogden ar-I SOhal flights between Ugden and San I Krunciseo and Ogden and lower California Cali-fornia points, and vice versa, will be the natural sequence, the officers in-'1 rlmate Lonr practice trips will be taken and attempts made to try out airships in flights over such countrv as the trlji affords. Construction un lhe arsenal has been started. More men are being hirer! every day and within a week or' two. it is sard -that active building op- j erntions will have begun. The ten mile spur is nearlv com- I pleted It Is expeete.l that the work1 urn end during the wc k, as iii- contract con-tract calls for the completion of inlaying in-laying of the rails bj October 16 nr. |