Union County’s great government project, the new federal penitentiary is providing work for some 400 men and is expected to bring a considerable boom to the college town.

Aided by mild fall weather, the construction has progressed well within the contract schedule and the roofing of some of the buildings has started. The six dormitories are being roofed and the steel structural work in the central part of the penitentiary where the mess and the drill halls are located is continuing with other phases of the building activity not affected by the final arrival of winter.

Current estimates for the daily expenditures for wages in conjunction for work on the project at $3,500 to men living there. For the probable future of the effect on the history of the town, estimates are even more impressive.

Surveys have shown that approximately 200 houses will be required for families of the staff which will eventually operate the prison, in addition, further increases in population of the borough are presaged by past experience in communities where similar institutions have been built.

There have been one or two real estate developments in Lewisburg since the awarding of the contracts for the buildings.

The institution faces Buffalo Creek, just a few miles northwest of town, on a plot of 3,000 acres, dotted here and there with deserted homes and farms whose land the project lies on.

The 20 buildings eventually to be erected include a and administration hall, a library, school wing, mess hall with auditorium seating about 1,500, three cell blocks, disciplinary building, hospital, four dormitories, storage building and factory.