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Cove Day School Contract Awarded

Media Contact: Nedra Darling, OPA-IA Phone: 202-219-4152
For Immediate Release: October 11, 1958

Award of a $375,000 construction contract that will more than double the capacity of an Indian Bureau school at Cove, Ariz., on the Navajo Reservation was announced today by the Department of the Interior

The project covers construction of a four-classroom building, a kitchen and multipurpose room, a storage and generator room, and expansion of all utilities.

Once completed, it will enlarge the capacity of the Cove Day School from 57 pupils to 120. It is part of the Indian Bureau’s over-all program to make school facilities available for the steadily increasing school-age Indian population.

The successful bidder was Goodman and Sons of Farmington, N. Mex. Ten higher bids were received ranging from $401,854 to $563,553.

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