Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-30 | Page 14 | Shipyard Abandoned by Goverment

SHIPYARD ABANDONED BY GQVERMENT: WASIIINfJTON. art. 30 The I nit-' ci Htates ahiM'iiia; board has canceled Its contract with the ftth)ehm Steel corporation for a $o.ooo OoO ahiphu.ld-Inic ahiphu.ld-Inic plant at Alameda, Cal. Work on the project, which amounted practical- ly to doiibllna; the plant loVated there, wmo atupped two weekn ft co. officials rxpl.tincd the plant could not le completed com-pleted before the period of its uaeful- I neap would have passed. I When the Jtethph'm group waa given giv-en the hia contract it intended to mke the Alameda plant a transport building build-ing yard. No shipa smaller than lS.iM'O deadweight tons were to le built. l-rly in the anmmer it was seen, according tn officia a. that the first troopship could not be turned out before fall of next year. In mm-cling the cn tract I then. It waa ttomted out, officials 1 relieve re-lieve thev have saed the government I fitn.ttno.iioo. j tjf f it-uaia Jif ihe aliipping board andj KmerK-iu y Meet corporutmn were in t perfect accord as to the disposition t the Alameda project, it was sa:d. j Pressure of the atxongest sort, how- ever, la known to have been hrougtrt toj Wear on t 'ha.rman Hurley, to permit the bml.l'ne; of the plant. This prcs- 1 sure, according; to officials close to ! Hut ley and Director tieneial Schwab,! i was exerted by commercial intereats j which were expected to supply the ma-j terial required in building the plant j las well aa build. ne the ohips. i j Shipping hoard off.cials have almost' completed the list of shipyards, which i will be placed on their reaources to operate indepiwlently uf the govern-1 ,ment. ,lt waa announced today. All) yards have been grouped, according to, their efficiency. In four clussea. '(. las, four, which now includes seventeen 1 yard, will be eaminatt-d and other! yards which drop In efficiency will be cut off atp. as they fall below the ' rimrrM itand.iril 1