The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-21
CHINESE LABOR
FOR THE CANAL
Four Proposals to Furnish
Coolies Opened by Com
mission Yesterday.
CELESTIALS CHEAP ENOUGH
NO AWARD WILL BE MADE AT
PRESENT.

Washington, Sept. 2O.-Proposals
were submitted to the Isthmian canal
commission today for the furnishing of
Chinese labor to be employed in the
construction of the Panama canal. The
requirements Of the specifications were
In brief that the contractors should
agree to supply the commission with
at least $500 Chinese, the commission
having the privilege of calling upon the
successful contractor for additional Ia
Dor not exceeding 1900. 1t further was
specified that the laborers should be
on the isthmus ready for work within
three and half months of the opening
of the proposals and that the contrac-
tors should deposit with their proposals
a bond of $4,000 as a guarantee to
faithfully carry out terms of the con-
tract. While the commission has been
in communication with about $50 indi-
viduals and corporations who had sig
nified possible desire TO submit pro-
posals, only four proposals finally were
Offered to the commission today.
Bids Opened.
In the presence of the contractors
and others interested the propositions
were opened by W. Logan Pepperman,
assistant chief of the office of admin
istration of the isthmian canal COM
mission.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the proposals Mr.. Pepperman an
nOunced that no award would be made
of the contract until the proposals had
been examined by the commission and
its general counsel. In accordance with
the specifications, the proposals were
made for the furnishing of different
| classes of labor at a price fixed by the
hour i'm American gold.
a summary of the four proposals
submitted follows:
Doctors Are Cheap.
THE American-China Contracting
company, represented by James r..
Morse of Englewood, N. J.: Common
laborers, 10 cents per hour: foremen
and interpreters 20 cents per hour,
physicians, 40 cents per hour; cooks
and BARRIERS 10 cents per hour
international Contracting company.
Washington, D. c., represented by
Carroll PuTman, president: Laborers
and cooks. 13 cents per hour: doctors
SO cents an hour; assistant doctors, 26
cents per hour; interpreters, 2h times
Is cents per hour; foremen one and one
half times Is cents per hour.
"Wah Me Lee Hang q Co, Baltimore.
Laborers, clerks and BARRIERS, 1919 cents
per hour; foremen and interpreters.
10 cents per hour; doctors, % cents per
hour.
Nine Cents Per Hour.
Joel Julian Reiben, Washington. d.
c.: For the first 1850 Chinese laborers.
II cents per hour; foremen 40 cents per
| hour; doctors so cents per hour: inter-
prefers 90 cents per hour; cooks and
BARRIERS, 80 cents per hour. For the
/ first additional 1000, above $500 labor
ers, IL cents per hour. For the second
additional 1000 laborers. 1913 cents
per hour For the third additional .O0O.
10 "a cents per hour. For the fourth
additional 1000 laborers, 10 cents per
| per hour. For the sixth additional
1000 laborers, 10 3-S cents per hour. For
the seventh additional 1000 Iaborers.
10 Ia cents per hour. For the eighth
additional 1000 laborers, 10 10 cents ner
| hour. For the tenth additional 'OOO
laborers, 9h cents per hour For the
eleventh 1000 additional laborers ola
cents per hour. And for the remainder
OF the 10000 laborers 8 cents per hour. -
The last proposal is assumed at the
/ department to mean that if the COM
/ mission enters into contract with Mr.
/ Reuben and wants the full quota. of
10000 Chinese he will furnish them at
/ the rate of 8 cents per hour for com
mon labOrerS