The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-16
STEEL COMESFOR
NEW COUNTY JAIL
Eleven Carloads Required to
Build Cells in the Mod
ern Prison.
TO BE OPEN ON JUNE is
BAsTILE WILL BE COMPLETED
WHEN SHERIFFs COME.

Two carloads of steel for the new
county Jail arrived In Salt Lake yes
terday, and teams were busy all day
hauling the material to the jail build
ing on Second East street. just east
of the city and county building. Work
viii De started at once. under SUPER
intendent A S. Meserve, who will over
see the building OF cells in the Jail, and
viii have the work completed by about
June 10, ready TO be thrown open on
June IL for the inspection OF the sheriffs
of the intermountain country. who will
hold their convention in Salt Lake,
starting the middle of the month.
With the two carloads already here,
work will be started at once Superin-
tendent Meserve received word from
the Short Line offices that five more
carloads of steel for the cells III the
county jail would be here the first Of
next week, and four more carloads will
be shipped from the St Louis factory
within few days, reaching here in time
so there will be no cessation Of work in
building the 100 cells in the jail.
Requires Carloads.
An idea of the amount OF steel needed
for the cells can be learned from the
fact that it will take eleven cars to
maui the material from the St Louis
factory to salt Lake The steel for the
cells alone will cost in the neighboFhOOd
OF $4,000, and experienced workmen Of
the Pauly company will work under MI.
MeserVe in piecing them together.
About twenty men will be put 10 work
on the interior and it win be rushed.
The Jail was to have been finished by
hrfr T0 frnf
the factory necessitated a postponement
of the date for opening, and the county
commissioners granted an extension to
June Is. Superintendent MeseTve said
yesterday that this would give ample
time for the completion of the work, and
that he would have his men out OF the
way and the whole job completed few
days before this date. Now that the
steel has started TO arrive in Salt Lake,
some advance can be made IN the work.
All of the structure has been completed
for several weeks, with the exception
of the cells.
For the last few weeks the company
has been building the new $4,000 resi-
dence of Sheriff Joseph G. Sharp and all
future sheriffs, which stands on Second
East street just in front of the jail 1t
is CT the same red pressed brick con-
struction as the jail building.
The residence is now practically COM
pleted, and il is figured that il can be
made ready for occupancy within about
two weeks. New lawns have just been
pat in, and the work Of cleaning up the
premises has been about finished The
Jail and sheriff's residence viii be heat
ed in the winter by the heating plant
bust south of the jail, which also fur
nishes heat for the city and county
building.
Jail viii Be Modern.
The new salt Lake Jail, constructed
at a cost of more than 100000, s-said
to be a model in jail construction and
second TO none in the United States. 1t
IS not so large as many, but for COM
pleteness, modern appliances and other
features, it viii be one Of the models
of the United States.
Out of the steel now being received
in the city 10e cells will be built, and
there will be sufficient space left in
the Jail for 100 more cells if the number
of criminals caught in Salt Lake con-
tinues to advance as rapidly as the
population. The Jail will be we'll lighted
and much has been done for the con-
venience of the prisoners, as well as
providing every safeguard against es-
cape.
When the sheriffs from many counties
in the lntermountain states arrive in
Salt Lake for their convention on June
IS. one of the features viii be an inspec-
ton of the local Jail and the residence
Of Sheriff Sharp, both of which will be
complete at that time The prisoners
from the present jail on West Second
South street viii be moved down to the
new jail in a day or two before the
sheriffs convene, and the Jail will be
shown in fun working order.
Sheriff Sharp is laying plans to enter
tain the visiting sheriffs royalty while
they are here, and viii take particular
pride IN showing them the model jail.