Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-11
Bids for New Naval Vessels Opened
at the Navy Depart
meHt.
APPROPRIATIONS aNo CON-
FORMATIONS YESTERDAY.
Important Transactions Among the
Various Railroads: The Pacific
Funding Report.
DENVER EHREzZIER Ar
RaIGNED AND PLEADS.
An EN-eonTict MurderOusly Attacks
His Wife and Little Dauyh-
Ter.
By Telegraph TO the NEWS
EASHINGTON s0TrIsGs.
Bids for Naval yes-eIs--rhe UnIfed
States and Paris Exposition.

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Bids for Naval Vessels United
States and Paris Exposition.
WAsHISGTOE, June l0.-Bids fer
over s, O00, 900 worth of new naval
vessels were opened at the Navy
Department at noon. The vessels
hid for were for three types. There
WAS considerable excitement about
the contest between the rival ship
builders. The largest Of the three
vessels, in fact the largest vessel
ever designed for the United States
navy, is known officially As armOred
cruiser No. ., and Sl00-ton vessel.
She belongs 10 the class Of swirl
cruisers and is very close to a battle
ship In that she Is provided with 4
moderately heavy armor belt, be-
sides a protective deck. The armnr
is To be about four inches thick and
the curved protective belt six inches
thick. She will be armed with six
S-inch and twelve finch breech-
loading rifles, develop 1000 indi-
Gated hOrse power and n speed If -
knots. The dimensions are: Length,
$50 feet; extreme breadth. 81 feet
. inches; depth Of hold, IL feet 5
inches.
The other large vessel, designated
''cruiser No. 6, f" to have a displace-
ment Of 800 tons, has no armor,
but is provided with a protective
deck Al inches thick. Her main
batteries will consist Of two s inch
and ten finch breech-loader rifles.
She is to make twenty knots an
hour, with 1880 horse power.
Dimensions: Length, $50 feet; ex-
IRENE breadth, So feet; depth 80 feet.
THE THIRD VESSEL
is practice cruiser Of 500 tons; n
miniature man-Of-war for training
cadets at the naval acadamy. 1t Is
generally expected that the builder
who is awarded the contract for this
vessel will lose money. There is
just as much material to 60 In her
As in some Of the larger cruisers.
The appropriation limits for the
three vessels are: Armored cruiser,
$500, 600; protected cruiser, 81, sD0,-
900; practice ship, 100000.
The bids for armOred cruiser No.
were first considered, as follows,
for the vessel according to the plans
and specifications prepared by the
Navy department.
Union Iron Works, San Francis
CO, $4,000, 900.
William Crump & Sons, Phila-
ydelI,l,ia. -. $50. 900.
Risdon Iron and locomotive
Works, san Francisco, 81, $50, O0l.
The Union Iron Works and
Crump < Sons also submitted bids
for the vessel according to their own
plans and Specifications. The for
mer's IBID was 5000, 900, and the
latter's s.. 9S5, COO.
The bids for protective cruiser No.
8 were next received. There were
but two, each from the Union Iron
Works OF San Francisco. They pro-
posed to construct the vessel accorl-
ing to the Departments plans and
specifications for 81, 795, 900; accord
ing to their own plans and specifica-
lions for 81, $50, $50.
Two bids only were received for
the practice vessel, as follows: T. w.
Wheeler, West Bay City, Mich,
S2I5, 900; Samuel l.. Moore & Co.,
ElizabethpOrt, y. J., $3.50, 1000. These
were both in accordance with the
Departments plans.
There will be no awards for sever
nj weeks