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Show CONTRACTORS ARE BUSY Rl KEARHSJUILDiNG Hasty Unloading of Structural Steel Results in Delay and Extra Work. T. J. Burke, who hns taken over Uie contract for tlio erection of the steel for tho ICearns building, has placed two large derricks during the last three davn. and tho erection of the building will be carried on as fast as materials can be hauled to the site. Practically all of the steel is now In Salt Lake, but it has been unloaded in the railroad vards in such a manner that, to use the oxpres-s oxpres-s OIl.of, ?.ne, 'ore-man, "the deck is badly shuffled. bndor the few thousand tons of structural steel are some of tho beams which will enter into the construction of the basement and lower floors of the building, and a large amount of work and no little time- will be required to sort put tho heavy material. Two shifts of thirty to forty men each will be set at work this week, and as soon as the material ma-terial can be gotten out the erection will go forward rapldlv. Tho beams used In the ICearns building arc- something new in the structural steel line for Salt Lake, and they represent the most modern type of steel construction. construc-tion. These beams are rolled in what are known as "Bethlehem sections." the I beams being rolled in the mill Instead or being fabricated from angles, bars and plates as formerly. By this system a saving of 7 to 10 por cont In weight and cost Is effected, with strength that Is equal to or better than that of the old style beams, which are riveted. A few Bethlehem sections are in place in tho Z. C. M. I. annex, and thero are a few In the Xcwhousb hotel building. So far. however, the Kearns building Is the only one of this construction in the Inter-mountnln Inter-mountnln region. |