Award of a $271,570 contract for construction of day school facilities at Borrego Pass on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico to Wilson Hockinson & Cantrall, Inc.; of Albuquerque was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
Two other New Mexico firms submitted higher bids of $279,900 and $283,630.
The new four-classroom school will serve 120 Indian children living in the Borrego Pass area. It will be erected at the site of the present trailer school operated by the Indian Bureau.
A number of trailer schools have been established by the Bureau as temporary educational facilities for Navajo children living in isolated parts of the reservation. These units are being replaced by adequate school buildings wherever the population and daily attendance warrant.
Kitchen and dining facilities are included in the school building. The contract also calls for three two-bedroom duplexes, utilities, walks, and roads.
