Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-23

Perley Gets In the Lowest Bid for
the First Section.

For the last two weeks the contract for
grading the first section of Is miles on the
E. d G. River Railroad has agitated the
local public. Two rival construction COM
panies had been formed, and railroad men
and engineers were brought here in con-
siderable numbers to figure and estimate
for the respective parties. Individuals
without the pale of either OF the corpora
tions were also engaged in making esti-
mates, etc. The time for receiving bids for
the work expired at midnight Saturday
night. About a dozen proposals were
submitted. But four, however, we're for
the whole 25 miles. The rest were offers
to grade smaller sections or sub divisions.
In striking a general average these latter
bids could not we'll be considered. 1t is
not necessary therefore to treat Of them
In this article. The four covering the
whole ground, as the SENTINEL is in
formed, were those of the two construc-
ton companies and James Macberry and
d. W. Perley. We have never learned to
distinguish by name between the two cor
porations. One company embraced Rick
ard, Johnson ct al, and the other Sadler,
Clute ct al. The latter company is
better known locally as the Sour Grapes.
The Rickard-Johnson Company had
the highest bid of any Of the through bid
ders. They were some SIS. 900 above the
winning notch. James Macberry was
about $40, 900 lower. Then came the Soul
Grapes about SIS, 900 below Macberry. Per-
ley got in just S94 below the our Grapes.
1t was a close shave, and he couldn't have
figured much closer il he had been looking
at the 'tother fellows hand. Perley had
been identified with the Rickard-Johnson
Company. In their meeting Saturday
night when they were preparing their bid,
he wanted to put it in at a lower fig
ure. He urged this strongly, but
was overruled. He then told his associ.
ates that he should do some bidding on his
hook, knowing full well that his CON-
pany. was too high to stand any show for
the contract. A few minutes before the
hour had closed for receiving bids at the
Railroad Office, he appeared with one in his
individual capacity. This, it appears, is
destined to carry offth baggage and make
the handsome Senator a millionaire. The
contract has not as yet been formally
awarded him, blu there is no doubt that it
will be. The bids we're merely opened and
canvassed yesterday to ascertain the lowest
Of the lot. Perley is in a position to give
any amount of bonds that may lie required
and will, of course, get the contract. tits
understood that two or three Of. the Sour
Grape crowd will get a show with him.
Sadler and Clute are not easily thrown
down when it comes to a live business
proposition. Senator Perley. needing sup
plies. bonds, etc., will form a syn
dictate able to assist him. His syn
dictate will possess ample means to put
the work through on contract time. The
price for grading the entire 25 miles is a
little less than S48, 000-not such q stu
pendous undertaking after all; also show
ing that railroads may be cheaply con-
structed over the mountains and through
the valleys Of Eastern Nevada.
senator Perley was the author of the
Eureka & Colorado River Railroad bill in
the Legislature and did as much as any
other man to secure its passage. 1t is
therefore in keeping with the eternal fit
ness Of things that he should have a finger
in the chicken pie resulting from the con-
of the road. The SENTINEL
congratulates him on his successful bid,
and hopes that when he shall have COM
pleted his contract. as he is sure to do on
time and in good shape, that he may have
something substantial left for a rainy day.