Show MORAN GAINS FAME ABROAD Zion Contractor Tells Denver About His Victory in Con Conduit Conduit duit Grab DERISION FOR HIS S WHEN THEY ROAST ME I JUST SMILE AND GO AHEAD Confident of his 1 pull Un with the American city administration Pat Patrick Patrick rick J Moran conduit contractor and boss of the city council gave out an in interview interview in Denver the other day in which he bade a debonair defiance to those who oppose his to ex extract extract tract extras in large quantities from the city treasury The Denver Republican Republican lican prints the followIng Every nov and then some of the papers and polIticians of Salt Lake start In to make me the fall guy but it dont worry me Im too busy to be worried by tile the residents of town said Pat Moran the big contractor of the Mormon cIty Smiles and U 4 Im doing the cement work for the new smelter in Salt Lake and also building the new aqueduct for the wa water water ter company compan aside from a a dozen other things which requires more than 1000 men so whenever the papers and pol polIticians I start in roasting me I just smile and tell em to go ahead con continued continued Mr Moran That smelter is a wonder I have put in cubic feet of cement work since January 1 and am not vet through The stack is feet in height and It is feet down to the flues You could run a traIn through the flues In fact bUilding them I put in ina ina a small railroad running along the walls to expedite the work The aqueduct the water corn com company pany is a little over seven miles in length and I must build feet a day in order to have It finished by June 15 Can I do it Sure When you start out to do anything do it my motto This l follows the moun mountains mountains and in some places we have had to drop men down feet to get to the work I have had to build railroads and wagon roads for this work and the aqueduct curves around the mountains and canyons in a manner that would make the Rio Grande dizy zy Paving and Religion Paving Oh yes Salt Lake has to pave needs paving as bad as s some people need religion Im doIng a great deal of it too Pat Moran is probably the best known man in Salt Lake He has put putdown putdown down most of the pavements in th the town laid water and gas maIns by the mile built sewers and has a steady working force of nearly 1000 men It requires barrels of cement per day for his contract on the new smelter and barrels of cement a day on the aqueduct Nobody in the world but Pat Mo Moran 10 ran would ever ver think of trying to build such an aqueduct at the rate of feet a day sand R H B Kooser of the Mis Missouri MIssouri Pacific |