The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-06
LOCAL BIDDERS
BARRED ON JAIL
Plans and specifications Call
for Patented Device of One
Company.
COMPETITION is THUS
CLEARLY PREVENTED
Contractors Experience Difli-
Guilty in Getting to See Either
Specifications or Plans.

For several days last past there has
bccn printed in the Smooth Mouth >
the following;
Notice TO Contractors.--Oihce OF the
board of county commissioners OF SAT-
Lake county. salt Lake City; Gtah, ApTinl
l.. J9Oo,-Sealed proposals will be received
a, this office until !. o'clock p; NJ of +. The he
eighth day OF May. 1903, for the work or
constructing a county jai and saerlm
East street between Fourth md ,.l6s tt6th
South streets. in Salt Lake CITY. Jtah;;
the work Of constructing sad }ail anu anu
sherif1's 5 residence to be divided into two
parts. the contract for the construction
OF the jail building 10 be let on the tenth
day Of May. 1903, end the cGntraGi m r,,d,nS- Lor
and for erecting the shorlff's house to be
let on the third day of January, 1910;
Plans and specifications can q be Ivsd eMan1nfo 70
reject any and all bids Each nio nuse
be accompanied by n check for S5oo"' csr-
tified by salt Lake bank. ny oruer
of the board OF county commissioners.
MARGARET ZANE WITCHER,
(scaD Clerk
The natural expectation IS that the
plans and specifications, III accord Will
Inc wording OF the advertisement,
would be found in The clerk s office.
But they are not there, Inquiry III per
son at this office clicits the information
that the plans are not IN the CLERK
office. but in tho commissioners Of
flee. 49,
Calls at the commissioners Office
find no onc in The telephone brought
into use with the clerk S office dis
closes the fact that one James Sabine,
said 10 be the paupcr clerk, eau convey
the informa II OH as TO where the plans
for the proposed jail can be seen.
Where Is Sabine?
But where is Sabine? Paupers--poople
who are in nccd-all day wait for him
TO appear. He fails 10 show mp. Inc
late legislature legalized his office. and
this may he why ne is not III his office
Prior to the legislature he was an
intcrlopcr Wednesday a Tribune rep
rescutative spent on hour IN the ante
room OF the board OF commissioners.
waiting to see Mr.. Sabine. as directed
by the clerk S office. But Sabine did
not appear
The county commissioners have an
office upon one floor of the joint build
ing and the clerk s office is upon an
other The advertisement states In SO
many words that the plans and specifl
cations for the proposed jail can he
seen in the clerk s office, But they
arc not there. Whv' Did Mackay and
Clinton. who arc the board. direct the
J. So why is it not 50 deslgnatcd9
Contractors have made efforts to
sce the plans and specifications aud
four gentlemen called at the commits
siopcrS' rooms while The Tribune rep
rcscntative was there on Wednesday,
anxious to see the plans and specifica-
tops, but were unable TO do so.
Prepared by Pauley Company.
II is understood that these plans aud
specifications were prepared by the
PauIcy Jail company aud that the
specifications call for peculiar patent
ed device made by this company. I'm
less one bids upon this device he is
barred. No one but the Pauley people
can furnish ii.
Now, is il not time that halt was
called upon the board of commission
ers? Here is proposition involving an
expenditure of 100000 of the peoples
money. specifications for the work
arc prepared by q company which has
peculiar device for locking cells, and
contractors must bid upon this device
or not at all. Local people who pay
taxes and keep up this community are
barred. Taxpayers are wondering II
there is not a graft somewhere.
People Want. to Know.
Another thing in this connection
WHICH taxpayers WanL TO KNOW Is WHY
an advertisement is not complied with
when issued under tho name OF county
official. The advertisement for pro-
posals for this new Jail declares that
the plans and specifications can be
examined in the office of the county
clerk. But they are not IN the clerks
office. Why!
If Pauper Clerk Sabine, who draws
a salary from the people as clerk of
The board Of commissioners, is the
clerk of the board. why does he not
remain in his officcl If he is not the
person TO have charge of the plans and
specifications for the new county jail,
and the advertisement would clearly
indicate that he is not. why are they
not liz the county clerk s office ac
cessible to those who desire TO SEQ them
in order to make An intelligent bids
Some one is at fault in this matter.
And this fault should be remedied It
is up TO the clerk of Salt Lake county
10 have il remedied, and remedied at
once.
While the plans and specifications
have been so prepared as TO bar all con
tractors, save one, from the steel work,
The public have a right to examine into
the matter regardless, and beirg unable
TO do SO the average taxpayer has be-
gun TO wonder where the niger III the
woodpile is concealed.