Show VOTING BOOTHS FOR THE ELECTION county and city have contracted for the bemiss booth Is the one selected the price Is each for the city and ninety for the county to be manufactured in ogden A joint committee consisting oi browning aeh and M L jones of the city council and the board of county commissioners mot at the court house yesterday afternoon and investigated several proposition a for supply ing voting booths as required by law under the australian ballot system although there were eight bids submitted but two only the barnard booth and the bemiss folding booth were considered worth examining the barnard company was represented by E D hackius Has kius and the booth he wanted the committee to accept was made entirely of metal and folded together something like a clotheshorse clothes horse the bemiss booth presented by R D bemiss differs from the barnard booth in that it consists of four metal posts fastened together by steel wires and covered with canvas the connecting rods have a binge in the center after the pattern of the frame of a buggy top and by means of these the booth can be folded into a space as small as that occupied by en umbrella after listening to the merits of each booth as enthusiastically portrayed by each agent the committee decided to invest in the bemiss booth the reasons were principally on account of price each but also because of the lightness and perfect framework also agreed that the booths were to bo manufactured here and to clinch the bargain he contracted with E B leavitt to manufacture the whole number sold it should be stated that the deal was completed as far as possible yet without a positive bargain on the part of the city jessra browning jones and aeb must first report their action 0 o the council and have their report approved by that body before the city is bound of the number contracted for the city will use and alie county ninety |