The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-08
FORT SILL
WILL GET
s117,748
ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS
FOR NEW ARMY
POST
CONTRACT EXPENDITURES
TOTAL St,O25,OOO
Include Sewer System, Electric
Light and Water
Plant
Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader.
Lawton, Okla, July S--Captain Da-
Md l.. Stone, construction qualtels
master at Fort Sill Is In receipt OF ad.
s;ces from the war department at
Washington that the government has
Just awarded additional contracts for
the new army post at Fort Sill In ac-
eordance With recommendation Ol
Captain Stone on bids opened earlier
IN the month, involving an aggregate
investment of sll7,74S
The contracts include the build
ing of two field officers quarters,
one double officers quarters at cost
of $4,000; wiring for the buildings,
$3.50. and plumbing. S5,94S; water
reservoir. $2G,500; sewerage and purl-
iication plant $l2,600; and a steel
bridge across Cache creek to cost u.s.
ESQ. The El Paso Bridge company
secured the contract for the blidge,
the Newport, N. j., Construction and
Engineering company will do the
plumbing on the new buildings and
Lnyster and Lowe. Of Dayton, Ohio,
want all the remaining contracts
The original contract for buildings
IN the new post was for the aggregate
sum OF $750,000 and included fifty
four buildings as follows: One col
cnels quarters, two field officers
quarters, eleven double officers quar-
tvrs, one four-set officers quarters,
six field artillery barracks. four dou'
Bile non-commissioned officers quart
els, one administration building, one
post exchange, two store houses, one
bakery, six battery stables, one Dand
stable, one quartermasters station,
three double stable guard and shop
baildings, six gun sheds. one granary
one coal shed, one wagon shed, one
pump house. TO this number OF build
ings have been added eight more in
Guiding one guard house, two store
houses, one repair shop, and the four
| Inst contracted, at cost of $75,0OO.
This increases the total number Oh
buildings to sixty-two and the total
expenditure on buildings alone to
| ss35. 900 To these contracts have
been added $4,000 for artesian welis
| $4,000 for water works, $2S.O0o 1oi
reservoir and sewerage purlficatlon
plant, $4,000 for roads and $6,SOO fol
electric lighting system. The aggre
cote expenditure now under contract
| is thus placed at $1,025,0O0.
Twelve of the buildings are prae
ltlcally complete, at least forty are un
der active construction. and work !.
getting well under way on number
Of the other contracts. For instance
the sewer main leading from the ne"
post to it's outlet. mile below inc
old post, is practically laid and the
| ditcher Is rapidly approaching the
confines of the new post grounds.
The contracts thus far let, con
lsimes all of the appropriations made
for the year 1910 and for the proposed
bridge run even into the appropria
Itions for 1911 so that contracts jus'
! awarded will probably be the last nn
III new appropriations for improve
mentg here are available. II Is estl
mated that another year viii have
Ipassed, however, before the new post
which Is to provide quarters for
whole regiment, will be ready for oc
| cupancy.
But the war department does no.
propose to stop here. Immediate plans
include the enlargement of the pos
Itu brigade rank, extending bulldlng'
directly west from the new site seiect
ed. something moge than a duphcat'
of present contracts ond blue prih''
In the office OF the quartermaste'
general which have been approved D,
tbe department look ultimately TO th'
establisbment at Fort Sill Of divi
eion most and the expenditure in iti
construction Of at least s2000e,Ooo.
The old post now occupied by thre'
botter,es of the First field artillery
will probably be retained as q schoo
q, musketry which, under orders u
enad last year is TO be transferre'
from Preside TO Fort Sill.