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Special Committee, Uo. 2 July 1, 1909 requisite plumbing, #25.00; freight at commercial rates on four- room cottage #180.00 and #190.00 on five-room cottage. It Is proposed to plant in front of each cottage a couple of cot ton-wood, saplings,, which, when they leaf will he an attractive feature and which can he secured at a very small expense, prohahly not over #50.00. There ms a clerical error which you call attention to respect­ing freight charges in the estimates for cottages with concrete block walls. Those estimates were prepared very hurriedly the morning Mr* Bancroft reached here last from Salt Lake City for submission while he ms here, and the error was the result of rush­ing. In the new estimates, from which the Form 50 attached has been prepared, freight has been carefully figured at full commercial rates -from data furnished by the Traffic Department. / By setting the studding in the bath room with its sides instead of edges towards the room, the bath room can he widened sufficiently to admit of a five-foot bath tub instead of one fair and a half feot long as originally proposed. I have made a comparative estimate for roofs made of "Ready Rock” and cedar shingles and find the latter would be only 17 cents higher. I believe a cedar shingle roof would last longer than the "Ready Rock" roof and it certainly would look much better than the other one which is never, or hardly ever, used on dwelling houses unless the front and side walls are run up for several feet in order to screen from view its unsightliness. I suggest that you authorize the cottages to be covered with shingp.es • Yours truly, EGT-Z