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Show WORK BEGINS ON NEW BLOCK FORESTRY SERVICE BUILDING TO BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION. Relic of Forty Years Ago Found in Making Excavations for Sewer. Active operations were commenced upon the foundation of the new Forest Service building yesterday morning, comer of Lincoln avenue and Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street, a large force ot men being detailed on various preliminary jobs about the site of the proposed structure. The basement which already al-ready had been excavated bad the finishing fin-ishing touches completed yesterday and the laying of the foundation will commence at once. A large cement mixer, with a capacity capac-ity of 120 yards of cement .dally, has been secured and will be used in making mak-ing the huge concrete piers. These will measure 4S inches square at the bottom and 30 inches at the top, aud will number 1G in all, distributed at equal distances through the center of the basement. Upon these will be constructed the brick pillars to support sup-port the cent of the building. In excavating for sewerage connections, connec-tions, the workmen encountered a relic rel-ic of by-gono years which few or the residents of Ogden are familiar with. It was the old stone sewer constructed construct-ed fO years ago by the city of Ogden, Og-den, then a town of but a few thousand thou-sand inhabitants. This sewer was a hiiCA affiilr fnnr fpt In lnSrrU nH width, and constructed of boulders and blocks of broken "bench" stone. An excavation having been 'nade, two walls four feet apart were built up without cement or mortar and capped with great slabs of rock brought from Collln8ton in the first year or two of the railroad to the north. Some or the huge slabs were six feet in length and four feet in width and formed the roof of the sewer. The sower had only an earthen bottom, bot-tom, the idea being one of evaporation as much as transportation to sewer; age. It was constructed along Washington Wash-ington avenue and down Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street to the river. On account of the porous uature of the gravelly sub f.oll, and the rapid escape of the water, the sewerage was apt to gather at points and clog up the passageway, there not being enough behind to carry car-ry the rcruse to tho river. At many points during the past twenty years workmen have discovered, upon encountering en-countering the old sewer, conditions which would "hardly be tolerated by a modern board of health. |