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Show SUB-CONTRACTS : HAVE BEEN AWARDED Building on the Eccles skyscraper Is being retarded only because the question of ownership of the south wall of the old building is still in the courts. The matter is before tho supreme court pending a decision, and until n decision Is handed down, definite steps In construction work cannot bo taken Manager W. A Larkins of the Dln-widdie Dln-widdie Construction company of Portland, Port-land, Ore., states that his company is ready for business and that most of the material is on hand That the skyscraper will he started start-ed in the near future Is beyond the i peradventuro of a doubt If the de- r clsion of the lower court is sustain- I ed, changes In the plan of the building build-ing will bo made, either to enlarge the j east front of the building or to di- j mlnish It, or, it might be, that the adjoining ad-joining store space south or the ruins-would ruins-would be purchased and the skyscrap-er skyscrap-er extended. At any rate, Mr. Lar-) kins has sublet much of the work t and all parties are ready to begin ft building at a moment's notice. The j sub-contracts let by the Dlnwiddie company are- t Glass and glazing, Ogden Paint, Oil &. Glass company, Ogden. Mill work, Eccles Lumber company, Ogden. Terra cotta, Gladding, McBean company, com-pany, San Francisco Ornamental iron work, Jackson ic Richtcr Iron works company, Denver Den-ver Heating, C. II. Say. Ogden. Elevators, Otis Elevator company. New York, Mall chute. Cutler Mall Chute company, com-pany, New York. , , Thirteen cars of steel arc here and the contractors have a force of men In readiness for. operations. The terra cotta and other material, aside from the steol. are ready for shipment and can be placed on tlie ground on short notice, and the home companies having contracts for particular par-ticular parts of the structure are prepared pre-pared to begin operations at any time. , ... Mr Larkins states that work will be started on the Klesel D"Wn Hudson avenue and Twenty-fourth street Monday morning. This afternoon contract for the reinforcing re-inforcing steel will be let and the contracts con-tracts for cement, sand and gravel will bo awarded soon. No time will be lost in the construction con-struction work on this building, he object of both the owner ana the contractors being to finish the build-I build-I ing at an early date. |