Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-26

rltOfial prison at Florence has been
 completed. that is. all the foundations for the 2i00-foot ma wall. the radial building, the octagonal machinery
 building. the entrance tunnel and tower and the boiler and engine beds. eic.. and the work of contraction above ground will now move forward
 very rapidly. All these foundations
 are of heavy reinforced conc 'e.e and
 extend into the ground to vario.:s depths for the reason that every foot
 Of the excavations for the foundations
 was cont nued down till thoroughly compact and sold ground was heached. says the Florence Blade-Tri-
 hunc. II will be impossib'e for these foundations to crack as the result of
 scttiing. We desire to remark here
 parenthetically that in all our forty years experience in newspaper work.
 wo never saw public work more thoroughly. substantially or eonscien- ticusly executed than has been the work on this new pr son up to date ! The contractors. the architect and the superintendent of the pr r'sOn. who Is
 h mseif . skilled and experienced con tractor and builder. have vi q wifr one another in giv ng the territory
 value received fer it's money. The ter ritory was particularly fortunate when
 il obtained the services of Thornton Fitzhugh as supervising architect.
 Messrs Greenville and Gregg as con
 tractors on the concrete work. and Capta'a Rynning as director of the
 prison labor used in the general con- structlon work. We base the fore
 going statement upon our personal know ledge of the work Having been
 mainly Instrumental in locating the
 prison here, We have kept an eye upon the work and know whereof We speak.
 The elevation upon wh ch the prison Is located was twelve feet above the surrounding ground and Architect Fuzhugh raised this elevation three feet by filling in. hence the base of the Frison walls is fifteen feet above the surrounding ground.
 The formers for the radiaI building. to be used as a dining room. have been completed and are ready for the pouring of the concrete. Under the original plans for tn building the partition walls were to be of wood. but this plan has been changed and the partition walls will be made of reinforced concrete. the roof also be- ing Of the same material. There will be no wood in the building except. possibly. the window oasings. lcl.cv the structure will be absolutely ire proof Tae same plans will be fol lowed in the construction oi al other buildings within the main walls of the prison. hence the entire structure wiE be absolutely fire proof
 The fsst outer section of the con c etc tower which rises from ba en- trance tunnel, which extends from the basement Of the tower out to the administration building. situated out side of the main wall on the north side of the prison. The roof and sides or the tunnel are of reinforced concrete and the floor Of cement II las @ fall of eighteen inches from the tower tc the administration building for drainage purposes in case water should get into it accidentally. or when washing it out. Electric lights are strung along the roof of this tun- nei, and on top of the roof two lines of iron pipe were laid to carry the electric wires from the dynamo in the machinery building outside the prison wall. The roof of this tun- nel is about four or five feet below the surface of the ground. An inner concrete tower will rise from the cen ter Of the main tower basement. leav- ing a space of about two feet between the inside wall of the main tower and the outside wall of the inner tower This space will be occupied by a spiral steel stairway. connecting the on sE main tower. The latter tower will extend q short distance above the roof of the octagonal machinery building. The smoke stack from the boilers will be carried into the inner tower and the latter will be carried up with the smoke stack to within a few feet of the top of the latter. to serve as support for the smokv stack. The boilers will be set on their foundations next week and they are as fine a pair of tubular boilers as We ever saw. They are five feet in diameter and about sixteen feet long. The foundations were built up from solid ground with solid concrete, rein forced by iron from the old Florence bridge. Captain Rynning in using all the iron from this old bridge in rein forcing the foundations and all it Is costing the territory is s1 per ion paid fo. hauling it from the old bridge site to tae prison ground. All the bridge timhers are being utilized by Captain Rynning in structures outside the pris- on wall, and in this way he is saving the territory considerable money.
 The original plan for the main walls of the prison called for a thickness Of nine inches at the base and four inches al the soP. but as-the contractors are to be held responsible for the stability cf the walls for six months after their completion. they decided. with the con sent Of the architect. Co increase the thickness throughout five inches. hence they are making tae main wall "A inches at the base and 9 inches aJ the top. The plan Of the guard walk at the top of the wall alas also been elsnged by substituting iron pipe rail ing for the solid cement panels speci- fled in the original plan. The changes are made by the contractors without extra charge to the territory. hence the I latter is getting considerably more for | its money than the original contract 1 called for. thing that seldom happens 1 OF public work.
 The well. which Is TO feet deep. | and contains ninety feet of water, | seems 10 be inexhaustible and the | water for drinking and other purposes | is the best in the country.
 A part of the steel cells has arrived | on the grounds. The cell building will | hold oufv cf-fv-pfOhf ca1fz and oach