| Show ALCATRAZ MUST FORFEIT FOR DELAY IN PAVING PAYING SALT LAKE STREETS Work started August 10 15 Work still uncompleted July 30 Time Limit days Penalty for delay 50 n a day Forfeiture Kelsey There Is absolutely no hope of the Alcatraz Al- Al Alcatraz catron Asphalt Paving company compan com corn completing Its contract with Salt Lake City within anywhere near the time limit It will not b be finished In time for the Elks Elks' reunion In fact tact City Engineer Kelsey says that he does not except It to be bo completed before November 1st For a 0 year ear lacking Jacking two necks the he Alcatraz Al- Al Alcatraz has had hail the streets torn up and has worked ot off ott and on and still the paving paving- Is far from completed Quick Work in Denver Denvor Pension Agent E. E D D. McConnell of or Denver who was wa In the city yesterday was amazed when told that the thc Alcatraz Alcatraz Alca- Alca traz had work on Its Salt Lake contract last st August He said that Denver recently let a it contract for the paving of or eight blocks block with u to be completed In six days das The work was finished on contract time According to the Alcatraz's contract with the elt city the work waa was to haebe have ha be been n finished within days das after ater the company was notified by the Doard Board of or Public Works to proceed with the work vork The board Instructed the company to to b begin gln operations on August last One Oe hundred and forty Carty days from that date would gIve gl the company until Januar January Jan Jan- January uary 2nd of or this year ear to complete the paving pa P Progress i of the Work Of course It Is admitted that raving paving cannot annot c be proceeded with In the winter w weather eather So the work was was was' suspended o on n November It was not r resumed umed again gain a oa oI till April 1st The hen heavy V rains rallis I In n that month put lut another stop to the p progress of the work and It was about Mn May M ay 1st before It was again re resumed umed I It t was asked wh why was the work not t then hen rushed to completion It might e even ven then have been finished b by the m middle iddle of June Allowing for fat for delays delays on a account of the weather the time limit TIME LIMIT AND FORFEITURE INCLUDED I IN PAVING CONTRACT Tho The undersigned further proposes 4 f 4 and agrees to have one quarter of or orthe 4 the pavement pa fully completed 4 within el eighty days ays one half with with- f 4 ff f In 1 10 A three quarters with with- f 4 l days and shall hall full fully complete 4 the tho entire contract within HO da dasHer days s B 4 after Her being notified b by tho the Board f 4 ff Public Works to with f of or proceed f 4 ff f tho work Clause Clause o In the city's contract con- con conf f 4 4 tract with the Alcatraz Paving com com- 4 pany n 4 The Board of ot Public Works arks noU- noU 4 fled the AI Alcatraz company compan to proceed pro- pro prof f 4 ff f with tho the work on August 15 IS 1901 4 f Under the contract tho the tho forfeiture f 4 for which tho the Alcatraz Is blo liable for 4 f not completing the p paving within f 4 tho the time limit Is X a da day In which the company should have finished fin fin- the paving would be June The Rate of Forfeiture The forfeiture for which the Alcatraz company compan Is liable for not completing the paving within contract time Is lb 50 O Oa a da lay day Taking Juno June as the day on which the contract should hould have been I completed the paving company has hal al alread already already al- al read ready forfeited 2150 D By November 1st It will have hl forfeited City Engineer En En- Kelsey figures the forfeiture I from April 1st st which would auld make It over I The question then arises Will the City Council have tho the backbone to force the Alcatraz company com corn pany to live up to the terms of its contract with the city and enforce the forfeiture The City's Contract The city's contract with the Alcatraz company comp calls for the paving of Second South street from Crom First t West Vest est to the Rio Grande depot a n. distance of ot five blocks Third South from State to West Temple t two o blocks and the repairing of all the defective detective asphalt paving Inthe In Inthe Inthe the city The rho price agreed upon for the contract lb It Of or this work tho the paving company has paved pa up to date late on only I th the south side of or Second South street nil all except the block next the depot depot de do- pot on which the laying of or asphalt will wili be ho completed b by Thursday The work ork gang was called ot off this work last week reek to go ahead with the paving on Third South street so as to e that street paved for the tho Elks Elk convention The laying of concrete of-concrete was completed on the thes south uth side of or Third South street last night It requires ten days for the concrete to settle before the asphalt can be laid on the top of or It So it will vill take rush TUsh work to have Third South paved on both sides of or the street by the thc time the Elks Elka begin to ar nr- ar- ar rive The Company's Excuse Th The paving company compan excuses Its tardiness tar tar- diness In the completion of r t It its contract I b by declaring that it hit has not been able to get sufficient t curbing from quarries at Heber City Stone Is now being shipped In from Denver and the compan company com corn pany pan says It Is using all due expedition toward the completion of oC Its paving contract with Salt S Lake Lak Crt City John E. E Dool Dooly chairman of the thc Board Doard of or Public Works when asked for an opinion on the paving situation had this to fin say The surety bond given ghen by the Al Alcatraz Alcatraz At- At company Is unquestioned ned and 1 If it It falls fails to live ll up to its Its' contract the penalty can cm be enforced Much of the deJa delay Is due to the fact that the Utah quarries q while they contain the best kind of ot curbing are not yet et properly opened and It Is with great difficult th that t curbing of ot the proper dimensions I Ia can a be procured d I Another Penalty Hinted It Is said that the Utah Stone compan company com corn pan pany has incorporated In its contract a penalty claim copied from that of or Salt Lake City corporation with the Alcatraz Alca Alca- traz It I is subject subject sub sub- Paving Pa company and that to the fame anc penalty per day as that which the exact from Cram the paring par par- pavIng paving ing company compan For the past two tuo weeks the work has han been pro progressing quite quite- rapidly rapid and an au that the Board of ot Public Works Yorks can do will be done to insure its Us speedy com corn letlon |
