The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30
THE CONTRACTORS SIDE.
Bowman Makes a Statement of
His Case.
THE CITY's FINANCES.
Over $4,000 Row Outstanding on
Municipal Warrants.
City Employees wrathy Over Loo fbourow's
Proposed Reduction and Denounce It
as an Outrage-The Weekly Pay
Ror-severaI Other Reports.

Tomorrow afternoon the joint city and
county building committee will meet for
the purpose OF trying to come TO some
satisfactory arrangement with Contractor
Bowman, who declines to be discharged
without a settlement of some sort. Mr..
Bowman claims that in the estimate made
some time ago by the architects, showing
that it would require IS, 500 more than
the contract price to complete the build
ing, there were errors in the footings,
ana that the correct footings of the ar
chitects' own figures give the contractor
credit of more than $1,000 above The
contract price. He says that if this bal
ance is paid him he can go on with the
WORK.
The contractors side of the case is fully
set forth in the following communication,
which was filed with the committee on
Friday last:
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, July q, 1898.
To the Honorable Chairman and Members of
the Joint City and County Building, Salt
Lake City, Utah:
GEETLEMEN:-ln answer to your resolution
OF July 25th, 1868. instructing the clerk of your
committee 10 notify me that you would take
charge of the joint city and county building,
ana Charging me with having failed to procsed
with the construction of the building, will say
hat the work has been delayed through no
OF your committee falling TO take action on my
communication OF July 17th submitted TO you,
relating TO the discrepancies N the original
drawings as now on Tile in the county clerk S
office and those furnished me by your archl-
tects. which are wrong, and under which, up TO
date, / have furnished materials and labor to
the amount OF about Sl4, COO, all OF which was
extra and in excess of what the cost would have
been had copies of the true and correct
and complete drawings and specifications
been furnished me. In that communion
ton l asked your committee and hereby
again respectfully ask that committee
be appointed to investigate the matter,
! l also again call your attention TO my COM
munication of July y, with attached claim for
extras of j. A. Smith & Son, relating to the
plastering, and that OF j. W Farrell s. Co., in
regard to the plumbing.
also call your attention TO the fact that the
city and county are owing me, according TO the
auditors statement on the June estimate, q
balance, which has neither been paid TO me or
on my account for work and material, as l am
informed.
l further desire to state. that Tor some reason,
| your committee saw fit to Tescind resolution,
previously made, regarding arrangement by
which the building committee became the dis
burser of all funds for labor and material, and
which had accepted, and after the censtruc-
ton Of the building bad proceeded for some
months and monthly estimates made as usual.
at the beginning of each month, for work done
| in the past month, you rescnded that resolU-
ton in the middle OF a month, or half way be-
tween estimates, thus working an injustice to
nae by depriving me OF part OF the estimate for
work performed.
1 further call your attention to what
purports TO be a statement TO you by
your architects, showing the amounts SO
far expended on the city and county
building and also approximately the amount
that will be required TO complete the same. all
as published in the Salt Lake papers of July
% 1893.
In answer to this will says that the pur-
ported estimate OF the architects is wholly in
accurate which l can. and will show at any
time, and feel confident that, receiving justice
| from you, 1 can and will complete said building
In accordance with my contract with the city
and county.
! further call your attention to pages ! and
of the specifications for said building In which
it is stated that the plans and specifications for
| the joint city and county building were APP
proved and were then on file in the office OF the
city recorder and the Office of the county clerk
| of this county, ana by the terms Of the contract
| these modified plans and specifications are
made part and parcel of tho contract, and fol
the foregoing reasons respectfully decline tc
allow your committee to take charge of the
construction o. the building either now, or a.
any other time, unless 1 shall have violated my
contract. Respectfully,
j. H. BOWMAN.