The Evening critic., 1884-08-20
IMPORTANT BIDS
Opened by Major Hams To-day for
the River Front Improvement.

the River Front Improvement.
Bids were opened at the Office of Colonel
Peter G.. Hams, tho officer in charge Of the
Potomac River improvements, to-day, for
the work to be performed during the cur
rent fiscal year.
The bids were divided into those for
dredging and forming an embankment on
the Potomac River below the Long Bridge,
for dredging in the Washington Channel
between the Eastern Branch and Long
Bridge and for furnishing about thirty
thousand cubic yards Of riprap stone, vary
ing from twenty to two hundred and fifty
pounds in weight, for tho foundation Of tho
seal-wall and tidal reservoir.
The first class of work embraced dredg-
ing along the northeast margin of section
Ill of the flats dredging q trench 100 feet
wide and feet deep and the formation of
other trenches and embankments.. The
amount Of material to DO removed is esti-
mated at 100000 cubic yards.
The second class provides for dredging q
channel $50 feet wide and 20 feet deep for
about 10 600 feet, the present channel being
200 feet wide and 16 deep. Tho material
removed Is TO DO deposited upon the flats,
commencing at the Long Bridge causeway,
and it Is estimated that 100000 cubic
yards of material will be excavated.
The specifications do not prescribe the
method of depositing the material on the
flats so that all modes of operation were
admissible, some differing materially from
the means now employed by Sanford Ross.
Tho third class, the delivery OF rip-rap
stone, which Is to DO performed along tho
margins of the proposed tidal reservoir, aud
along the line Of the slope-wall, 5000 cubic
yards to be delivered per month.
The most important bids were those for
dredging the Washington channel and fill
ing tho flats, and In these nearly all the
bidders represented different methods of
performing the work.
The bids for dredging, trench and en-
bankment of Section Ill were as follows:
Morris e. Cummings Company, Of New
York, 22 cents; Atlantic Dredging Com
pany, of Brooklyn, 49, cents Ross & Sau-
ford, of Jersey City, IL cents; ID. Constau-
tine, of Baltimore, IL $40 cents; Thomas
p. Morgan, of Washington, Is 40 cents
L. c. Somers, of Philadelphia, 10s cents.
Somers was apparently the lowest bidder,
although tho calculations have not boon
finished.
The bids for supplying the rip-rap stone
were as follows: s. Carmody, of Now
Geneva, Pennsylvania, 100000; G. Wander
werken, of Georgetown, ID. O., $3l $50; ].
A. Blunden, of Georgetown, d. c., $4,000;
w. II. Groat s. Co., OF Washington, d. c.,
$29,100; Potomac Red Sandstone Company,
of Georgetown, d. G., $2i, i50; n. r. Gill
bert, of Georgetown, ID. c., $3l, 500.
The Potomac Red Sandstone Company, OF
this city, were the lowest bidders.
The bids for dredging tho Washington
channel, between the Eastern Branch aud
Long Bridge, and filling up the flats, were
as follows d. L. Culver Company, of New
York, .s20s 1875, at 49, cents per cubic yard
Rittenhouse Moore, of Mobile, Sl37, 500, at
1877 cents; Benson & McNee, of San Fran
cisco $123,700, at IL 37-100 conts Morris 6
Cummings Company, New York city
$4,000, at 90 cents Ross & Sanford, Jer.
sey City, $209,sd3, at 10 3-3 cents Ma
tional Dredging Company, of Wilmington
Del, 1896, $50, at 81 cents.
The lowest bidders, Messrs. Benson &
McAIee, of San Francisco, agree to do the
work at 12l cents, much less than the price
now paid.
Messrs. Benson G. McNoe will do the work
by the hydraulic process, using the Won
Schmidt patent dredgc, with hydraulic
pipes supported on pontoons, the matera
being sucked up by hydraulic force, forced
through the pipes and deposited on tho flat!
without the medium Of tramways aud cars
rs now performed.
There is no doubt Of the awards being
made to the lowest bidders.