The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-08


more ships at the same price and under
the same conditions, under the act OF
1900 The preceding bidders, Moran.
Bros. & Co, and the Newport News
company. made similar propositions.
John II. Dialogue & Son, Camden. \.
j one unsheathed for 50 S25 600. An.
other under the act of 1900 at the same
price
Risdon Iron & Locomotive Works,
San Francisco one without sheathing,
S4,O75,0 00.
Bids on Battleships.
Battleshi9s:
Cramp & Sons, one sheathed and cop
peTed, So. 500 600
Newport News company, one,
sheathed and coppered, 1898, 000s one
unsheathed. $3.50. 600.
Fore River Works, one for S., 49, 600,
or two for s, A05. 600 each, all sheathed
and coDpered Without sheathing. one
for s.. $40 600. or two for So 4e5. 600 each.
A bid is also submitted for two more
at the same price under the act or 1yUO-.
John II. Dialogue & Son, one sheathed
and cOppered. S3,4O0QOO; one without
Sheathing, 50, 290, GOO Another at the
same figure under the act Of 1900.
Bath Iron Works, one sheathed and
c0ppered, $500, 600.
New York Shipbuilding company, ones
sheatIaed and cOppered, S4-200,O0O, or two
at 81 175,100 each Without sheathlng-.
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each. This firm offers TO reduce InS
time limit Of completion six months.
Moran Bros. s, Co, Seattle, one
! sheathed and cODDered- S3,S65,ODO; on
| two at s., 600 each. Without sheath
| ing. one for SO, 697, 900, or two for $685.
| 600 each. Bids also are made for two
more at. the same price under the ac0
4 Of 1900. This firm also oilers TO reduc5
the time limit six months
! a naval board viii consider the bias
! and report on them. The acts or con-
} gress limit the cost Of cruisers to So
/ 500 600 each and Of the battleshiDs to
4 "a $50 900 for the sheathed and SA,eVo,V00
4 for the unsheathed-
/ Secretary Long. expressed himself as
/ pleased with the result of the bidding
/ so far as he could perceive II from the
hastv reading of the bids he IelG
] that on the whole the latter were very
49, BattIeships of Two Glasses.
The five new batteships. namely, the
] Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Georgia
/ Virginia and Rhode Island, are divided
/ into two classes to compromise upon
/ the controversy as to their turret sys-
/ tens. Three are to be Sheathed and
cODDered and viii carry Super-lmpOSed
/ turreIs: the other two are to be I'M
! sheathed vessels. having the "quadrlla-
/ tOriaI arrangement of eight inch tur-
refs To meet the contingency that the
l
( cast. the bidders were, however, IN
Z <fted to submit plans in each case for
I both sheathed and unshearhed ships
Both classes Of battieships VIII COM
/ mare with any in the world, not only
| ahoat, but projected, for they viii have
/ a speed Of at least nineteen knots
/ which is expected to run up TO nineteen
and One-haIf. a great pace for q battle
/ shin. which viii be maintained by twin
screw engines of $4,000 horsepower,
/ supplied by twenty-four water tube
( boilers.
Cruisers to Be Swift.
/ The six armOred cruisers represent
the highest development of the naval
constructors art. for Chief Constructor
Hichborn has not only managed 70
design in them ships as swift as any
foreign navy can boast, but has en-
dowed them with the qualities OF bat
tleShiDS at many points