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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



This work involves about 3,000,000 

 cubic yards of earthwork and 130,000 

 cubic yards of rockwork. The pro- 

 posals are to be opened at the office 

 of the U. S. Reclamation Service at 

 Denver, Colorado, on November 8. 



The Secretary of the Interior is ad- 

 vertising for proposals to furnish 10,- 

 ooo barrels of Portland cement for 

 the Interstate canal, North Platte pro- 

 ject, Nebraska. The bids will be 

 opened at Denver, Colorado, Novem- 

 ber i, and should be for cement f. o. 

 b. cars at stations on the Chicago, Bur- 

 lington and Ouincy Railroad (Guern- 

 sey Branch) between Torrington and 

 Whalen, Wyoming. 



Work on the Ft. Buford project, 

 Montana and North Dakota, has 

 reached a point where final plans and 

 specifications for the Lower Yellow- 

 stone dam have been completed, and 

 the Secretary of the Interior is ad- 

 vertising for bids for its construc- 

 tion. 



This dam is to be a rock-filled tim- 

 ber-cribbed structure, requiring about 

 one-half million feet of lumber, 700 

 piles, i, 600 sheet piles, 11,000 cubic 

 yards of rock filling and riprap, and 

 100 tons of steel. It is to be located 

 about 1 8 miles northeast of Glendive, 

 Montana. The bids for its construc- 

 tion will be opened at Billings, Mon- 

 tana, on December 5, 1905. 



Bids for the construction of the 

 Shoshone dam were opened at Bil- 

 lings, Montana, on the 5th of Septem- 

 ber, by the board of consulting engi- 

 neers convened for the purpose, and 

 the lowest bid was found to be that of 

 Prendergast and Clarkson, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



Four proposals were received. The 

 total amount of Prendergast and 



Clarkson's bid for dam and auxiliary 

 works was $515,730. 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 awarded the contract for the construc- 

 tion of eight miles of main distribut- 

 ing canal in connection with the Un- 

 compahgre Valley project, Colorado, 

 to Orman and Crook, of Peublo, Col- 

 orado. 



This work will involve the excava- 

 tion of 525,000 cubic yards of mate- 

 rial and the placing of 20,000 yards of 

 concrete masonry for the conveyance 

 and partial distribution of 1,300 cubic 

 feet of water per second from the 

 mouth of the Gunnison tunel, near 

 Cedar Creek, to a point on Uncom- 

 pahgre River nine miles south of 

 Montrose, Colorado. 



By the terms of the contract the 

 entire work is to be completed within 

 one year. The amount of the bid is 



Proposals to furnish from 30,000 to 

 40,000 barrels of cement for use in 

 connection with the Yuma project, 

 California and Arizona, were opened 

 at Los Angeles, California, on Sep- 

 tember 30, and the bid of the Pacific 

 Portland Cement Company, of San 

 Francisco, was found to be the lowest : 



The proposals were as follows : 



Pacific Portland Cement Company, 

 San Francisco, cement f. o. b. Yuma, 

 $2.819 per barrel. 



Western Fuel Company, San Fran- 

 cisco, cement f. o. b. Yuma, $2.881 per 

 barrel. 



Western States Portland Cement 

 Company, Independence, Kansas, ce- 

 ment f. o. b. Yuma, $2.960 per barrel. 



California Portland Cement Com- 

 pany, Los Angeles, Cal., cement f. o. 

 b. Yuma, $3.0675 per barrel. 





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