The Prescott daily news., 1914-08-22
WHEN THE POSTOFFICE
 WILL BE ERECTED
Government Explains Its Method of Procedure in Building.

have been authorized by existing leg islation irrespective of the date of such authorization. The following statement of the present status of public building work is issued for the Information of all concerned
 Beginning with 1902 it has been the policy of Congress to authorize pub l lie buildings by what are known as t"Omnibus" acts, each act including a great many separate projects. In addition, special acts are passed from time to time providing for individual project, increases in the limits of cost of projects previously authorized, etc. The Omnibus" Act of 1902 was fol- lowed by similar acts in 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910, and 1913.
 It is the present policy to place un- der contract for construction all buildings, or extensions to buildings, authorized in any one Omnibus" act before beginning plans for projects authorized by subsequent act. It Is also the present practice to pre- pare the plans for all buildings, or projects, authorized in any given act in the order of the dates upon which the titles to the sites therefor were vested in the United States.
 To determine the precise order in which the plans for the various build ings shall receive attention the fol- lowing procedure is followed: The buildings authorized in any one act are first divided into groups accord ing to the priority of the acts in which their sites are authorized. All build ings in such act-group are further ar ranged in the order of the dates of the acquisition of their sites, the 1913 act authorizes buildings upon sites which had been authorized in the act of 1908, in the act of 1910, and in the act of 1913. It is intended that the buildings so authorized in 1913 to be erected upon sites author ized in 1908 shall first be placed un- der contract. These w lilbe placed der contract. These will be follow ed by buildings authorized in 1913 to be constructed upon sites authori- zed in 1910 Then the buildings au- thorized in 1913 to be built upon sites also authorized in 1913 will take their l
 Extensions are usually authorized to be erected upon land already own ed by the United States. While ex- termining the order which extentions the buildings authorized in a partcu- lar act,discretion is exercised in de- terming the order in which extensions shall be placed under contract for construction, depending upon the urgency of the need for the improve ment.
 The output of plans by the sup ervising architects office is governed by the extent of the technical force designers, draftsman, computers, superintendents, etc.) which the ap- propriations given by Congress per init the department to employ.
 At this date the office of the super vising architects office has on its books, waiting to be placed under con tract, approximately $3S. 100000 worth of authorizations for new build ings and extensions, exclusive of the value of the land. This includes the new buildings and extensions in the act of 1913. This office is placing buildings and extensions under con tract at the rate of about seven mil lion dollars annually, so that at the present rate of progress the last of the buildings authorized in the act of |1913 will not have been placed under contract until about the beginning of the calendar year 1920. It will not be until after the latter date that it will be possible for the supervising archi- tect to place under contract any build ings contained in any act, or acts, which may be passed in the meantime.
 The current program, made up of the remaining projects which were au- thorized prior to 1913 act, includes about one years work from this date. Work upon the plans for buildings au thorized in the act of 1913 will there fore not commence until about July Ii. 1915. The 1913 act contains the following authorizations:
 New buildings .............3 BOA L,,.11