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Show ARSENAL WILL I GET 2 ENGINES Locomotives on Way; 12 Buildings Yet to Be Constructed Construction on the i icrdn arsenal ! uill be entirely completed on the various buildings with the exception j of twelve magazines by April 1 ac-IcordJnjj ac-IcordJnjj to Captain Orn Bundy. officer j In charge of the construction work for the government- The contract held bj the w n Sutherland com-! com-! puny of S.t Louis, Mo . calls for the c6mplet!on of the buildings by June I J. At the present rate in the construction con-struction work the ulant will be fin-lahed fin-lahed from thiriv to sixty days ahead I of the schedule Thf entire plant mav be completed I by the middle of April and by Mav 1. at the latest, according to Captai.i Bundy, Materials for the magazines j are holdinc uu the work on the rc-, rc-, malhlng 12 buildings Twenty-three 1 f the thirty-five maeTaxliie buildings i have been completed and work on the remaining buildings has been started. Work on the concrete paying east from the railroad tracks to the Administration Ad-ministration building will be com-1 com-1 p'cetod during the present week Cap-I Cap-I tali. Bundy states. The contract for the drilling of the l 0 0 foot well at I the arsenal Will be let within the next 1 ten clays. Three companies submitted : bids for this w-jrk and ihc final decision de-cision will be made at Washington ( (luring the present week. Two large locomotives for use at the arsenal have been shipped from ! the Baldwin Locomotive works ai I Philadelphia and will arrive at the I j arsenal within the next two weeks it ; is stated. Although but two cars of aminunl- ! Hon have been received from eastern I points up to date, the shipment of' .he remaining amounts of ammunition' for the Ogden arsenal is expected to be started from the east during the I early part of April. Adjustment In freight rates has I halted the shipment of ammunition j according to Major Oliver H. Presbre. |