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Aneth School Contract Awarded

Media Contact: Tozier - Interior 4306
For Immediate Release: April 4, 1963

Award of a $1,998,581 contract for the construction of school facilities to provide for 360 additional pupils at Aneth, Utah, on the Navajo Indian Reservation was announced today by the Department of the Interior.

The contract calls for the construction of two 192-pupil dormitories, a 14-classroom instruction building, a kitchen and dining hall, a storage and maintenance building, employees living quarters and garages.

These facilities, when complete, will replace the existing school plant, built 25 years ago, and will expand the capacity of the school from 60 pupils to 420. The existing school facilities will be demolished when the new facilities are completed.

The successful bidder was B&E Constructors, Inc., of Albuquerque, N. Mex. Nine higher bids were received, ranging from $2,064,367 to $2,739,500.

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