Show SLOW SHIPMENTS I DELAY BUILDINGS Belated Arrival of Structural Steel Results in Slow Work Because of the belated arrival of con consignments consignments consignments of steel forthe for the new build buildings buildIngs buildIngs ings pow now under c construction 1 work on at least one site has been suspended and will probably be suspended for several months In making the excavation for forthe forthe forthe the new now Daly building at Fourth South and Main streets water was struck at atthe atthe atthe the same level that found water In the Newhouse excavations two or three years ago This made It necessary to use pumps and delayed the work ork A further delay has been occasioned by bythe b bythe the absence of the foundation steel and until this material arrives there will be bevery bevery bevery very little activity on that corner mak making makIng makIng ing it an almost certainty that the building will wili no be completed until next nt fall at least The builders of the hotel diagonally across from the new Daly site or old Kimball corner have experienced experienced an inability to get material and arid a delay in construction is the result A like experience has befallen the con contractors contractors contractors tractors of the Kearns building farther up Main street and while work is go going going going ing along at this place as well as at the new hotel at the head of the street it cannot be pushed to the utmost because of the failure to receive ship shipments shipments shipments ments of metal It seems that after some delay the new Rio Grande depot Is the only place to which regular ship shipments shipments shipments ments are coming now and the work is not retarded in the least Shipments of steel have always been slow it being understood that the fac factory factory factory tory Is behind In orders and this to together together gether with the time consumed in tran transit transIt transit sit causes some embarrassment to local builders |