The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-02-12


and although he says in his deposition, that
he disguised his hand in two Of them, the
two he does not rcmember,yet on an examina-
ton and comparison of them, we find he
made poor out Of Disgusting it, though he
attempted it, for they are all very much alike,
SO much SO, that tits difficult to tell whether
the undisguised look more like each other,
than they do like the disguised ones. They
are still on file in the Office Of the Board.
The bids were opened on the 18th of Nov,
and as soon as Mr.. Young discovered that
Backus was between Samuel M. Young d: Co.
and Samuel M. Young as John G. Allen
& Co., he proposed to buy out Mr.. Backus,
and when he had accomplished this end, then
the next thing was for Mr.. Young to with
draw himself, as John G. Allen 4 Co., and
fall back upon his bids in the name of H. II.
Forsyth, and j. M. Goyd. Why he did not
withdraw his Forsyth & Gloyd bids, when it
would have been so easy for him to do it, as
the board appeard to allow all to withdraw
who desired, may appear strange at first view
but by refer to the testimony of Mr..
Young, it will be seen that Samuel NJ.
Young & Co., consisted of himself and Elijah
Dodd, brother-in-law to Mr.. Steedman, and
by reference to the testimony of Mr.. Dodd,
it will be seen that Mr.. Dodd had asked Mr..
Steedman if bid by himself and Mr.. Young
would be considered good, and he was told
it would. And the result shows that it was
considered good, and was selected" as one
of the propositions which combined all the
elements of responsibility, experience, capaci-
ty, fitness for the trust, and undoubted pecu-
mary ability.
AVERAGE COST.
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price above the average cost for the last six
years. The Board, or perhaps it would be
more just to say Mr.. Steedman, the President
of the Board, who was the acting commits
sioner on this section, estimated the annual
average cost of this section at S45, ,971. On the
3 list March, 1856, Mr.. Blickensderfer and
Mr.. Conover, as the majority of the Board,
made a report to the Senate in reply 10
resolution giving.the items on which the es-
innate of the average cost was based, and they
show the annual average cost OF lis section,
excluding all items of expenditure not prop
erly chargeable to repairs, and which could
not be required of the contractors under the
contracts, and their estimate was S29. $50
per annum, showing that this section was
let at price 5000 above the actual cost of
it under the old system of repairs.
Mr.. Griswold made minority report on
this section. in whi,r he estimates the aver
age cost S34. .871. Both these reports, to-
gether with the reports in reply to Senate
resolution on all the sections, are copied into
this report. For some reason they are not
ordered to be printed before the adjournment,
and as they contain information which will be
very valuable to bidders at future letting,
we have deemed it advisable 10 incorporate
FirJ;n, thot tboro ,;r,.,o g
ion oLo,,t ,ia oont af .,: .,;on y. oPil a.
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,ro ooIIod - 49,. n..;o,a NT- g. IL
ard a. -. eo:. M ~: 80 u
~ kao, 81 :. en .n,I - S''on ~
~ lie oorstr,ot;a a.I n.oI w ST IS
o,,ot nsti 'o'on, ahu InnneO.eu WIN us i'o
t;n,a T.o-s a.; eon'o:o ~ poi"on y. ..o
GaJ tbot ,La aa,;,,oto af .i'o W" a.. 80 80
atatoJ - ~ t r. - a. .Ao 'oIs a
tbe actual cost and u ,bot ,I ,ha ~ "3st ~ snch re
noirs os tI,o oo,,sootor :" Ln,,,J ., go d,os
not % exceed SOC noo W. ~ state " only % The sye. re.
suit. because if wonld swell this renort to an
unwanted lenpth to give a full statement of
the items, and the reasons why they should
not be included in the estimate. Suffice it
to saw that the contractors are hound to re-
Do;r not to Lp;l5 canals. onJ tbot tbev ora
only hound to rabuiId ary etructure which
NAV fail. of sucb materials and of sncb work.
mansbip. as the old structure was. and anv
change Of plan. such as sIen5tbenino an aoue.
duct or MAKING stone niers instead Of wooden
ones, must be paid for over and above
the contract price. so far as the chance OF
pan increases the cost. It is simplv absurd
= IL. II 80 -, II n 60
tow path bridge, which has been built within
a period of six years at an expense of severa
thousand dollars, should enter into this esti
mate OF repairs. 1t was not re6uud'ng OF
structure, but new structure-and no new