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The original Extracts for the new College Buildings evers $ 100,000. Upon

excavating for foundations, however, the loove and rotten character of the subsoil. over the North West half of the site made it necessary to go

places

as.

deep

as

down in

26 fect, before a solid

foundation could be met.

These enormous depths of foundation, tögether with the fornication of the Basement recently, completed, have cost $49,000 while the contract suun

for the completion of the College is $87,500 making total of $146500.

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So this must be added $5,300 the

cost of cerkinn strectural additions to the original design, recently astred for by the Acad allaster, bringing

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the total to $142,000.

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