Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-21 | Page 3 | To Break the Record

TO BREAK THE RECORD World's Largest Drydock Will Be Built on Puget Sound. WASHINGTON. July 110. Plans for the lnrgost and best drydock in the world nre being prepared in the bureau of yards and docks nt the Navy Department. The laat appropriation act contained a provlsiou for a dock to cost 51,250,000 10 be constructed at lhe Bremerton navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington. This amount is larger than ever heretofore appropriated for a dock and the now dock will, when completed, be able to take in tho largest battleship, cither in course of construction or In contemplation. contempla-tion. The location for Ihe dock ha3 already boon selected at the yard and borings nro now being made to' learn the depth of tho foundation. It lt to bo a concrete dock of tho largest pattern, and thu nfa-terlals nfa-terlals will be purchased on the Pacific coast, if practicable.