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Show hope to have the net completed within the next lew days. The rope and other material to be usfd will cost the city less than $13. and the labor absolutely nothing. The 1it prlc or nets offered for sale by companies Is $mi. jn addition to this the latter nets are but in feet In diameter, diam-eter, while the om now belnR made at the lire department will be 12 feet square. This Having to the city is primarily ' due to the fact that two members of the So. 1 company Brown and Wilson-each served more than four years on a lnlted states man of war and ate therefore skilled in the use of ropes and cordare. The net is being constructed under their supervision. When completed It will be used as a guard asralnst possible accident dur-InK dur-InK the drills engaged In by the firemen fire-men and will also be carried us reg nlar equipment for us In case of fire. It U claimed that thirty or forty men could successfully manipulate the D' t I and save the life of a person Jumping ' from the highest building In Ogdeu. MEW LIFE MET FCS FIRE DEPARTMENT! The equipment of the ogden lire department de-partment is about to bo increased by the nddllion of a life net now in course of construction. This important article arti-cle is something which-should 1m included in-cluded in ihe equipment of every up-to-date department, and the net Is something that has been badly needed by the local fire fighters for some tlmo past, An Important fact Su connection tvlth the present Improvement is that It will cost the city practically nothing noth-ing In comparison to tho cost of nets sold by accessory companies, for this net Is" being made by tho firemen themselves. They arc putting in every ev-ery extra minute on tho work and |