San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-27
SCOTT coRREcTs THE FIGURES.

Editor LIGHT:
Twas surprised at your figures on
bids for street ravements, in your Is
sue of yesterday.
I WITH copy your figures from the
same issue: .
"Scott's accepted bid No. 2,
with rock asphaltum foundation,
same filling, with improved hexagon
mesquite block, mot sand hlllng, as
you enormously stately
p, 41O so. yds. of paving at
Sl.45. Total .............. S39, '44 oo
"Braden's No. 8 round rock
at S1.44. Total. ...........S 39,4'O ~
orc Of ~ S274.
Where does your thousands
come in? ,
If YOU will look at my bid No. =,
you will find rock asphaltnm t0un-
dation, and asphaltum filling. Then
look at Braden's No. 3 round blocks,
and natural foundation, with sand
filling. So you see the thousands you
have i'm your dOu ble-header do not
come from cutting the corners OIL, as
YOU would make the voters and tax
PAYERS believe.
Now. Mr.. Editor, what do you think
of cutting the corners and sap off 81
40 square yards, for the paltry sum OF
S274. 10. Please be as just as you were
generous, in laying the truth before
the rate-payers of San Antonio. In
the near future 1 will tell the people
i'm a proper advertisement how l make
this work so cheap Now, Mr.. Editor,
YOU will see that those figures reflect
very unjustly on those gentlemen VINO
have the control of our city affairs,
and also on your humble servant, as
contractor.
I can't believe you made this mis-
take intentionally.
In conclusion, | think the time has
arrived to ventilate this important
subject, for the interest OF the rate
PAYERS of San Antonio. "ln pam
phletpublished by the Barber Asphalt
Co.. they say that rock asphaltum
pavements in the United States vary
from 81 to s. per square yard, nclud-
ing foundation
You perhaps are aware that the
Barber Asphalt company Will not
put in an imitation rock asphalt pave
ment for less than $3.50 per square
ward and no contracts less than 500
Now. sir. see what SCOTS No. = bid
pives san Antonio ''frOm your pub
Iished figures.n A natural rock
asphalt foundation with the filing
amounts to the same thickness as the
bricks, and heXagOn improved mes
quite block five feet deep on top for
the sum of $3.50 per square yard.
Never in the history of road making
has there ever been such reasonable
bid for the same class of work. Any
unbiased contractor will say so. Turn
up the files of the LIGHT to July, 1854,
and YOU will find the lowest bid for
paving Main street with natural round
blocks was S3.l7 -. Now compare
this with a rock asphalt foundation
and cut blocks for $3.50 per square
yard.
These are facts that cannot be de-
MED. Hoping you will see the import
ance of correcting this error, | remain
truly yours,
WALTER SCOTT.
The statement in yesterdays
LIGHT, of which contractor Scott
complains, grew out of comparison
Of the items-"27,4 40 50. yds. paw.
=. 50, in the accepted bid, and the
,sem 80, $50 50. yds. paw. SLIP in
Braden's No. 3. There was nothing
in the figures as presented to the
LIGHT to show that there was any
difference in the foundations upon
which the blocks were to be laid, and
thus the LIGHT was led into an I'M
intentional error. Mr.. ScOtt's explain
alton as Off0rded by certified copy OF
his special bid is that in his bid found
alton and filling was rock asphalt,
while in Braden's the foundation was
the natural gravel and the filling
sand. The - 50 in SrOtt's bid included!
,he foundation and filling and it W..
the omission Of this fact in the figures
presented at dis office which led to
the error. TIE LIGHT most cheer
fully makes the correction as il was
moved in the whole matter only by
an honest desire to conserve the in
teresgs of the tax payers OF this city.
Ed.
hdmini5trator's NoJice.