RECENT GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

[The Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments have consented to furnish statements of all contracts for constructions and repairs entered into by them. These, as received, will appear from time to time in the Bulletin.]

The following contracts have been made by the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury:

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-July 5, 1899. Contract with McPhee Company for repairs to stonework, etc., on branch mint, $37,625. Work to be completed within one hundred and eighty-two days.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-July 6, 1899. Contract with Bentley Construction Company, Portland, Oreg., for masonry work, roof covering, etc., for court-house, post-office, etc., $801,500. Work to be completed within twenty mouths.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-July 8, 1899. Contract with H. N. Leighton Company for extension, except heating apparatus and electric fixtures, and changes in post-office, $47,532. Work to be completed within five months.

MEMPHIS, TENN.-July 13, 1899. Contract with Nels Johnson, Manistee, Mich., for work on custom-house, court-house, and post-office, $1,685. Work to be completed within four months.

ELLIS ISLAND, N. Y.-August 22, 1899. Contract with Hecla Iron Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., for ornamental ironwork for main building for immigrant station, $16,775. Work to be completed within six months.

ST. PAUL, MINN.-September 5, 1899. Contract with D. H. Hayes Company, Chicago, Ill., for foundations, superstructure, and roof covering of extension of post-office, court-house, and custom-house, $144,000. Work to be completed within twelve months.

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