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Show I Bids have been received by the city . administration on fifteen blocks of H j; paving in the territory on the bench 1 j bounded by Twenty-fifth street on the I north and Twenty-ninth street on the B j HI j WB 1 south, calling for an expenditure of VH' ! : r approximately $160,000. of which the r ji city will be required to pay $50,000. I I With other work underway, this H will make a total of three-quarters of H ) a million dollars In improvements be- fB 'ng carried on by Ogden City. I H It is estimated that the cost of the r'w Paving will not exceed $8 per j;1;! front foot, which Is a drop of 50 per kvussaw ' Is cent from the pCak of prices, and even a heavy decrease In cost from the figures fig-ures on paving of a year ago. Contractors asked 12 a from loot on the paving of upper Twenty-fifth Street as late as last summer. Tho same class of work In this new dls trict calls for not ninrr than $172,-etiO $172,-etiO in this new district of fifteen blocks. Ogden Is fortunate In being able to dran into the local field contractors from all over the intermountaln dis-tricl dis-tricl This open field has created a competitive condition, preventing monopoly mo-nopoly and giving the property owner.? and taxpayers the benefit of lower prices than have been obtained else when |