Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-02
NEW PRISON BIDS OPENED
 AT PHOENIX
Ten Were Submitted to the Territorial Board of Control. Squad of convicts Already at Work at Florence.

territorial penitentiary were open kpt
 PHOENIX, Aug. 1.--Tbe bids for the sconstruetion of the territorial peni-
 tentiary were opened Thursday in the
 auditors office. It is understood that the bids are materially lower than they
 might have been another year under more favorable business conditions.
 The fact that construction work of this
 nature. as we'll as building in general, { is rather slack this year. the number Of bids is very large. and the figures
 advantageous to the territory. 1 It Is thought that convict labor will play an important part in the construc- ton of the prison. whether any out side labor is used or not. With this
 in view, conferences have been held by Governor Kibbey, Auditor Sims Ely. tne territorial board Of control and Superintendent Thomas Rynning of the Denitentiary, with a view to increas- ing the efficiency of the convict labor by making, the work done by the conyiets apply directly to their sen teuces.
 The plan involves the establishment
 of labor standard with a correIative system of markings running to 100. The markings will be computed daily, and each convict who attains perfect
 score will have a day subtracted
 from ais sentence. This plan is be- lieved to be more than merely feasi- ble in setting standard of labor equal to that which obtains in the outside world, inasmuch as the conyicts will realize that they have a direct incent- eaf assigned to them The average con lvict would rather work for credit look i ing to shortening of his sentence than | to be paid in money which he is not at liberty to use.
 k The eighteen convicts who have been employed under Superintendent iRynning and four guards in making lthe preliminary arrangements for the construction of the prison, have proved lentirely satisfactory, and there is ev- cry reason for believing that the rest ] of the conviets who will be or may | be employed on the building proper. will prove quite as efficient under cor. ditions which encourage efficiency. | Owing to a difficulty which was GIT countered in conferTing title to the land on which the penitentiary is to be l built, the woI>- has been greatly de layed. but the delay was unavoidable. The preliminary work is practically | finished. and as soon as the contract
 is awarded, the building will continue uHinterruptedly until it's completion. In reality, the work commenced
 Thursday The board of control has
 sent a supply of concrete posts to | Florence. which will be used in con structing a fence to take the place or
 a prison wall while the building is in progress. The posts are 19 feet in 1 height They will be planted seven | feet deep in the ground leaving the heiegat of the fence 12 feet. The Bids. The bids which have been opened lso far. the bidders and the amounts specified are as follows: deemned cells. S34.S20
 l No. ?. Llewellyn Iron Works, Los
 Angeles, S39, ,973.
 No. 3. Tauly Jail Building compa- ny, St. Louis, $2S,220.
 No. 1. Cheney West Coast company,
 Los Angeles, S54.020.
 No. 5. Stewart Jail Works. Cincin- natl, S33 900.
 No. 6. Champion Iron /orks, San
 Francisco, s36,50O
 No. C Meskert Bros, St. Louis. i $34, ,0O3.
 No. S. Adrins Iron and Steel Works, Joliet, H.. s29, ,137.
 No. g. Whitehead & Kales, $34,729. | No. 10. Structural Steel company,
 San Antonio, S4O,6047S. Bids for the mechanical plant were
 made by the Machinery & Electrical | company, Los Angeles, $33, 3,600; Smith i Booth-Usher company, Los Angeles, S27, ,952; The Pacific Coast Manufac-
 turing company, Los Angeles, SS7, ,S62. Bids for endorsements were sub
 mitted by Heber Bros, Los Angeles,
 SS735; General Fireproofing company.
 Youngstown, Ohio, $12,0O0; Cummings
 System. $6535: Gabriel Concrete Re
 enforcement company, Houston, Texas. | $S526.20.
 Bids for concrete and general mate rial were submitted by John Ribmau, Is8S.97 Phoenix Reinforced Concrete 1 Construction company. Phoenix, s74,- 000.50; J Greyille and A. ". Gregg
 of Phoenix, s51, 900.