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Show COUNTY SAFE DEAL RAISES.; LOUD PROTEST Company: RepreaentatiY Declares Absence of . Competitive Bids Is Violation Vio-lation of Law ' ' ' Protest against the purchase at a safes by Salt Lake county without with-out opening th purchaa to competitive com-petitive bids waa mad to th Bounty Boun-ty eomsnlssloosr this morning by . C. . pulver.. representing tha National Na-tional Safe eompany. A contract for th purchaa of th aafaa waa to havo been approved at tha eom- - mlaslonere' meeting thl morning, I but due to tb abosnos ot Commle-lonor Commle-lonor E. I Burgon. chairman, th matter waa deferred until Friday morning. .- ATjoordlng to Mr. Pulver, th county I about to buy sax safes for (ate without letting- competitive competi-tive firm hid on them, which th law eaya mtist he don. Mr. Pulver , aay that he recently called en Cemmles loner B.J. Lindsay, soliciting so-liciting th business, and waa Informed In-formed by tb comnvlaeloner that th county was "broke" and could not buy the safes this year. New, Mr. Pulver gays, th six safes have Caen bought, only a few day after . Commissioner Lindsay said there were a funds with which te purchase pur-chase them, and for a prto higher thin he (Pulver) could have eup-plledl eup-plledl them for. Mr. Pulver advised th ommts-lonara ommts-lonara that he could furnish the els safes (or lose than stipulated In the contract, and demanded to have the contract for the proposed purchase) pur-chase) disapproved becauee It wa being negotiated in violation of law. Mr. Pulver insists that tha proposed eon tract be disapproved and th matter be transmitted to th eounty purchsslng sgsnt and that bids be called for. Mr. Pulver said that ethsr companies, handling safe will enter a similar protsst. |