Show new construction at ogden will employ labor shell loading plant will increase output through installations major additions costing sting about mad and including 72 buildings and numerous utilities will be placed place dunder under contract in ogden before july 1 for construction at a large 87 37 millimeter abell loading plant at ogden ord ordnance depot an bounces lieutenant colonel elmer 0 bthomas er cr for and wilen completed the new units will employ at least 1000 1 persons it Is estimated estima ted in add lilon ion to about 2000 persons expected to be employed at the pj present imata which consist of f buildings i most ot of whichard chare are now virtually TIA artilly completed I 1 in addition contracts will be let arang june for eight miles of f railroad it a water system bouer band compressor mr air at r conditioning system toads storm sewer system sewage age disposal facilities sidewalks side wilks construction equipment S and other items q at the additional shell loading line 17 will 1 increase by byone linof ithe do ca q icicy of the shell loading anca in cin ded I 1 lu the units now nearing I 1 z completion and the new ase flae load i lugune line will double bouble aw the ithe capacity of itile existing eil sting tase fuse fac facilities littles the primer load 4 imp ing ilg plant Is an all entirely new unit at the big munitions venter the 87 37 shell loading plant la Is scheduled to start operations somo sometime time this Ei summer immer and ana it will be one of the first loading plants in the nation to start turning out large of 87 37 milli meter shells i needed ai for anti craft and antitank anti and tank guns gaim A 37 millimeter shell li 13 about one and one halt half inches in ili diameter the additional buildings will be located north and ot of the existing structures on land already un der federal ownership |