Media Contact: Nedra Darling, OPA-IA Phone: 202-219-4152
For Immediate Release: May 27, 1957

Black Hills Ditching Company, Inc., has been awarded a $46,370 contract for improvements to sewerage systems at the Indian Bureau's Northern Cheyenne Agency in Lame Deer, Montana, and at Tongue River School in Busby, Montana, the Department of the Interior announced today.

The Black Hills bid was the lowest of seven received for the work. Other bids ranged from $46,700 to $67,585.76.

There are approximately 245 Indian children enrolled in the Tongue River School.

Included in the work are new sewer lines and manholes and new sewage lagoons complete with connecting piping.