Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 13 | But Two Bids are Made on Vessels

BUT TWO BIDS ARE MADE ON VESSELS WASHINGTON", May 21. Only two definite def-inite bids were received by the navy department de-partment ton! ay for the construction of the remaining two of the ten supcrdread-nought-s, authorized by congress in IDIiJ. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Dry-dock company offered to b:iild one in 45 months for $21,900,000 and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation one in forty months for $22.t)SO,000. Although nearly double those for similar sim-ilar ships contracted for in 1916. the esU-trates esU-trates today were not in excess of what naval officials had expected in view of the increased cost of labor and materials.