The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-15
CONTRACT LET
FOR BIG HOTEL
James Black Masonry & Con-
tracing Company viii
Erect Utah Hotel.
MAY COST TWO MILLIONS
LARGE LIGHT AND POWER PLANT
WILL BE BUILT.

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90 The general contract fer the con- :.
:. struction of the mammoth Utah -
d! hotel at South Temple and Main =
= streets was awarded to the James :,
:: Black Masonry & Contracting Co. :.
= of st. Louis by the board of direc- -
s - tors of the hotel company at a =
3 - meeting held yesterday afternoon -
q = at the offices of the UUah-Idaho =
- Sugar company. The cost of the :.
Z" building, including the excavation, =
y cement foundation and steel work =
= contracts, which have already been ::
= let, viii be S1247OOO. =
:. This with other improvements. :.
= the cost of the land and the fur =,
- nlshings of the hotel, will bring the =
= grand total close to the s., 0O0 600 =
- mark. :,
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The James Black Masonry & Con-
tracing company won out in a field Of
nine bidders, all the companies being
contracting firms of recognized standing
IN the United States. The exact amount
OF the bid of the successful bidder is
withheld by the board Of directors. the
total cost only being given. 1t is said,
however, that the contract awarded yes
terdSy was close to the milHon-doIlar
mark
The contract calls for a completed
building by Dec. 1, 1910. 1t is likely that
work will be started by the company
even before the filing of the bond, the
amount Of which will be fixed by the
executive committee. At all events.
work on the building viii be started
soon by the successful bidders.
Three Contracts 81
Three contracts which have been let
are not included, of course, in the gen.
eral contract. These are the excavation
contract, awarded to Raleigh & Har-
mon; the cement foundation contract.
awarded to the James Stewart Contract
ing company of st. Louis and the steel
contract, awarded to the American
Bridge company.
As soon as the James Black CompaDv
has filed its bond, it will undoubtedly
ask for bids from sub-cOntractOrs on
various parts Of the general work to be
done. This viii mean that there will be
possibly as many as twenty sub-con-
tractors on the job. All the different de
tails of the big building viii require the
EFFORTS of firms which have made a spe-
Cldlty of certain construction work
For the heating and the lighting of
the structure, the hotel company has de-
clded on the erection OF q big plant
which viii cost approximately $3.50 900.
The exact location of this plant has not
been decided ON as Yet. but it will be I'm
the immediate ueighborhoOd of the hotel
Contracts for this work will be let later
No Statement Made.
While members of the board of direc-
tors would not make any definite state
ments regarding the plant mt this time
1t is said that it win be one of the Iarg-
est if not the largest. private lighting
and heating plant in the city. In addf-
ton to- furnishing light and heat for the
mammotn hotel it is said that the prop
osiUou is being considered of making il
a central plant for the heating and light
ing of the Mormon temple. the taber-
nacle and other large buildings I'm the
neichbCrho0d.
The value of the land on which the
hotel viii stand is placed at about S155.-
600. This, with the amount of the gen
erai contract and the three sub-con-
tracts let the estimated cost of the
heating plant and the furnishings of the
completed structure it viii be readily
seen, VIII bring the total cost of the
great structure close to the s.. 900 900
mark.
The James Black Masonry. & Con
tracing company, the successful bid
der, was the builder of the magnificent
washington hotel at Seattle, recognized
TO be one of the finest hostelries i'm the
west.
The board of directors of the Utah
Hotel company, which yesterday passed
on the bids submitted, is composed of
the following representative business
and banking men of the city: Joseph
F. Smith. w. ). Mccormick, d. c. Jack
ling, john r. Winder, John c. Cutler.
Louis s. Hills, w. NJ Bransford. G.. w.
Nibley. George s. Auerbach. William
II. Mcintyre George Romuey. w. II.
Bancroft, Heber j. Grant Thomas @.
Webber. Anton II. Lund and Joseph
GeOghegan.