Ogden Daily Standard | 1890-10-19 | Page 1 | The Navy Department Building up by Degrees

the deportment bailing Boil JiD up c bj by tes oct IS 18 the secretary of the navy received a telegram from the union iron works ol 01 san F francisco ranc laco accepting tho the departments terms for or the construction of oneff one of tho ilia battle ships on the pacific coast they provide for thu the construction of a vessel twelve feet longer than tho the one or originally igi nally planned by the department part ment it is similar in all re respects to to the two ships now being loni built raby bv the cramp of philadelphia the contract price is S or 0 60 O more than cram bid for a eincle eingle vessel on the same plans I 1 and GO leaa less than the union ni on iron works wk s bid on the ve vessel a bel