Show MAY USE UTAH ONYX Salt Lakers Can Have It in I New Post ffice DEPENDS UPON THE ASKING Supervising Archltoct Taylor Talks of Absurd Story Why Vermont Marble Was Specified In New Federal Building Instead of the Utah Product TRIBUNE BUREAU 1 13 Postal Telegraph Bldg r Washington May 31 Supervising Architect John Knox Taylor of the Treasury Department smiled when he vas shown a recent article In a Salt Lake paper stating that tho reason Utah onyx had not been specified for the Salt Lake post office building was that Republican Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont owned marble quarries In Vermont and had creat Influence with the administration adminis-tration He asked If Salt Lakcro wanted want-ed Utah onyx specified and Intimated that It might not bo too late yet CAN CHANGE SPECIFICATIONS I have seen the Utahonyx wainscoting wainscot-ing In the Joint building at Salt Lake continued Mr Taylor and my recollection recol-lection of that Is that the surface was uneven the size of the blocks were not uniform and the colors were poorly matched but if similar onyx or better bet-ter le offered and can be supplied and the people out there want it wo might be able to accommodate them by changing chang-ing the specifications for the building as they now stand The difference between be-tween tho market price oC Utah onyx and Vermont marble would then be deducted de-ducted from or added to tho contract price as the case might be UTAH PRODUCT NOT REQUESTED Was an effort made to have Utah onyx specified 7 was oflked I do not recall that anything wag ever mentioned about the matter more than this Bald he Some time ago Mr H L Frank of Butte Mont sent me the sample of onyx you see over there on that table saying it was from a quarry in Utah owned by him He said he had no facilities for quarrying tho material and I do not understand that he is in any position to furnish it for either large or small Jobs SAMPLE A BEAUTY The sample lying on the table was apiece a-piece about a foot square polished on one side was a dark brown color and looked as though it might find a sale or a demand If shipped to a market where much marble SB used Mr Taylor Tay-lor said It was a very creditable display dis-play and he had so written Mr Frank There arc many localities in the country which have both onyx and marble Mr Taylor went on but few of them have facilities for handling it so when bids are called for at the instance in-stance of local interests they are never forthcoming CALL FOR VERMONT MARBLE The specifications of almost every firstclass building public or private erected in the United States now call for Vermont marble which is the finest in the world A fine white marble comes from Georgia and Tennessee supplies the hard pinkcolored marble used far and wide over the country principally because of its cheapness and durability Senator Proctor Is i known to have Interests in Vermont marble quarries but that gives him no advantage over tho many other quarries quar-ries and it Is doubtful if he knows or cares whether Vermont or other marblo is specified in Salt Lakes postoftlce I plans > It could not be specified that the marble be purchased of his quarries quar-ries Most of the onyx used In this country comes from NumidIa in Africa Afri-ca and Sienna Italy |