The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10
'I|||ajl CANAL
Mi MADE PUBLIC
s'@ A, for Bids and Form
Fc 'rnct Issued by the
DIV, I commission
~QbrAaE SYSTEM" a5,I ,ponrrD
aq lI fIIL BE ONE ADOPTED
!, \ 'lCmtractors Will Have
,aI@ks to Secure Portion
|'&k ID Great Work

m7oN, Oct. 9.-Invitations
n 10 complete the Panama
;ssued today by the canal
and the form of contract
q ,he work is to be done
roblic by Chairman Shonts,
n Xsre out a letter written 10
~ Of War, giving the COM
for contracting the
~ nrovides that each bid.
DSsrtake the entire work of
No bar will be offered to
associating in the under
ihey must be legally or
single body with which
ssnt can deal. Bidders will
-E,dered who do not have
sn;tsI of s5,000,0o0. A GER
for 100000 is required
rooosal and a bond of So
he required from the sue
I'm The bidding is not lin
-siean contractors. All pro-
70 be in before noon of
% when they will be
-orosals are TO be expressed
!; nerrentape upon the esti-
of construction, which Is to
board of FIVE engineers,
ssnting the Government and
-,rtiug the contractor. The
ser OF the canal commission
,aairman of the engineering
bard VIII Fix Time.
-ruceriug board will also es"
/, reasonable time for the COM
IA the canal and will agree
|rrem of premiums and penal
n paid to the contractor ac-
ID he work is completed with
Eond the estimated cost and
n the Government plant Tor
r,..ruction work, including the
|b to be placed at the dis
!be contractor and is to be
"a by the Government,
.,iact specifies that the com
/ 10 retain control of all en-
work in connection with the
ssn of the canal and also
engineering, the police, sani-
siiaL and commlissary depart
IS houses, quarters, construc-
maintenance of buildings,
Of the Panama railway, an
department.. 10 which con-
accounts are 10 be opened
i:yartmeut of materials and
isys after the signing of the
actual work is to begin on
BUS, and the contractor is TO
all employees on the isthmus
L commission does not wish
No American employees TO
u than eight hours.
Al Shorts defends the per
JStem OF payment III his let
uetary Taft as follows:
plan is being employed by
T. largest and most successful
1ns in the country.
|sneht to Government.
ioyernment Will get the bene-
combined efforts of the best
experienced contractors in
/ each in charge of a depart
shich he is a specialist, and
sg with other specialists.
government Will secure the
on Of these powerful inter
ePlng mechanics of all classes.
Ian offers every incentive for
q economical construction by
extra time and cost and
better than contract per-
as TO either.
Raining control of the work
lg strict supervision through
senng force the Government
set itself against cheap or.
nstruction.
ontract will be more flexible.
and cost Of completing the
estimated will IL all proba-
reduced by the application
'nnclples which will be dis
: the work progresses. Final
fminatlon Of the contract,
become necessary, would be
nous to the contractor, while
we resumption of the work
made easier TO the Govern
ag 10 its close relations there
'ort of the commission g posi-
Tue canal can he thus con-
a greater advantage than it
uilt by the Government, Mr..
ctter says that '.because of
Geddcnted and greatly extend
.lai activity of the time, and
quent violent competition for
vi snperluJcndcnts, foremen,
ictors, skilled mechanics, and
mary laborers, it would take
iSsion years to secure men and
departmental construction or
~ y which would equal in ef-
a snosc now controlled by the
'Vntractors Of the United
sn Hoonts says in his letter
~ carefully consider
!. .he work in sections TO salts
and decided that com
would arise which could not
OiTs ny, III case this plan were
me letting Of the work to
actor on q basis Of unit prices
y, considered, aud was believed
'mniission to be n plan which
more expensive than the per