Show THE WALLS GOING UP i One Hundred Men at Work on the City and County Building i Over Two Million Pounds of Iron to be Used in the Structure Struc-ture The transition to Washington square is one of the marked changes of the year Twelve months ago the old square was the camping scene of the dealers in alfalfa and it was not uncommon to see as many as twenty loads of lucerne bunched up whilo the owners were either up town looking up customers or idling their time on the shady side of the load swapping stories It was a typical Utah scene as nowhere in tho East can be seen tho highly colored stalks and pretty pressed blossoms of the lucerne Right in the heart of the favorite spot of the alfalfa campers tho ground is broken by a railroad track on which are flat cars ith huge rock weighing tons apiece waiting to be hoisted by tho big derricks and served into slabs or dressed for the wails J H Bowman who was held back for soma time owing to tho difficulty with his bondsmen is making up for lost time and forging ahead at a rti trate He has secured beige A Ccok to superintend super-intend the construction work Mr Cook came hero from San Francisco and to put in the time awaiting the start was commissioned com-missioned United States deputy surveyor At one time he served the Missouri Pacific an its superintendent of construction and later on was connected with the erection of several tine blocks at St Louis Messrs Houlahau ul Grifiltb who have been hero two years have the contract for the foundation which includes the concrete con-crete the footings and stone work up to tho grade line Their contract runs up in money to nearly 50000 Some trouble was feared that the plans did not call for as substantial sub-stantial a foundation as the soil in this locality lo-cality required and tho council very wisely authorized an additional expenditure of 40000 in steel rails and concrete This part of the work has been completed and there are 760000 pounds of steel foundation boamb buried in tho concrete which was furnished by the Columbia iron works of Pittsburp Pa and cost delivered at tho yards 31000 Tho beams to support tho 25Jfoot central tower are 10 inches thick c5 feet in length and weigh bJ3 pounds Four layers of these laid in alternative directions di-rections is made into a solid mass by concrete con-crete At the front entrances facing east and west arc clustered columns They are being cut out of sandstone but this is another mistake in tho interest of cheapness cheap-ness as they will easily soil and being soft are liable to chip off It would not have cost more than 10000 to have used granite which when polished would have been both more handsome and durable The iron columns for the basement aro en route now and are also furnished by the Columbia iron works The iron called for by the specifications the entire building I build-ing is 20b7000 pounds which will cost de livered on the ground b3000 The main feature of the building will be the tower including the zinc figure will rise 250 feet above the grade line Through the building are two corridors one running east and west and tho other north and south floored with ornamental acoustic tile Two elevators NtH run from the basement base-ment to the fourth floor end from this point a winding stairs loads to the last floor of the tower 21S feet above the basemen base-men tfl or The steno for the foundation is being fur niihed by tho Mountain Stono company of Park City of which there will bo used SCO cords The rock for the superstructure super-structure will bo the overpopular and durable dur-able Kyune of which there have been shipped fortythree car loads and enough stone has been sawed to raise the walls about seven feet above tho foundation I foun-dation and twentytwo men are now employed em-ployed in cutting additional stone Ten men were laid off on account of tho contractors con-tractors having some trouble with the railroads the Rio Grande Western having I tried to keep the Utah Central and Union I Pacific out of the lards This is about sot tied satisfactorily so that all the roads can use the yard switch I The stones are sawed by three ganes of saws which ore kept running day and I night Some Of tho stone shipped from the I Kyune quarry is very large and a rock j weighing fifteen tpps was taken off the I cars but not until several sots of iron I hooks measuring IV inches in diameter were broken anti snauped as if they were chalk Superintendent pook stated that they had 100 men on the pay roll and that after the 15th will employ 150 to 200 men nnd that this number would be increased by the 1st of Juno to more than 250 men The masons are paid 450 per day and everything I every-thing equal residents of the city and mar lied men were given tho preference Veneer Ve-neer had a strike in any of our jobs said the superintendent with some pride They expect to be able to get the building build-ing under roof by the 1st of January |