The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-18
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
ITO CONTRACTORS AND DEALERS IN MIS-
celisneous suopes-Sealed proposals viii be
received at the office Of the board OF pubic works
up 10 noon OF Monday, June ~, 1892. for the
furnishing to the city OF Sea tie acquisitions to
be issued daring the months of July and usust,
Gated, for the ordinary needs of the various de-
partmenis should Conditions arise requiring the
purchase of articles in very large Quantities ABOVE
the ordinary requirements, the board reserves the
right 10 make special Calls Tor tenders TO meet
such cases.
The prices given in the tenders made 10 ne
based upon payments to be made by the city OF
Seattle in warrants drawn upon the appropriate
The board receives the right to reject any and
ali bids or portions OF DIS.
wATERwoRKs SUPPLIES.
Fuel-Coal. screenings OF not per ton OF 2.24o
pounds, delivered in boiler-roons or warehouse
a. the following '1ty pumping stations: Lake
Washington Broadway, Queen Anne.
Wood best qua ily body wood per cord. deliv-
cred in boiIer-roo of the anove-named stations.
Special castings, properly cleaned and coated
all TO be sound: imperfect castings TO be replaced;
price per pound
4-inch haiamein pipe
6to S-inch cast-iron dipped pipe
Cylinder and machine oils. per Dol ana case
Coal oil, water Will in iron bis and cases.
Tailow.
Dry graphite per Id
Lath yarn. MANILA sisal, per Id.
Pig lead, per 10.
8 A lead pipe. up to 1 inch per h.
Sheet rubber. cloth insertion. per 10.
Peerless GarIock, Usudurian and italian hemp
packing, per 10.
White cotton waste. bale and broken per 10.
Railroad picks, to 8 rs, Il, L. & Co., or Iron
City, per dozen.
Mattocks. y & L. Cutter K, L. & Co., or Iron
City, per dozen.
Manns handled axes So to AZ. per dozen.
Sledges, maus and hatchets, make \. IL =, per
dozen.
shovels, L. II. r. p make, Ames or St Louis
Shovel Company, per dozen.
Ak pick ma;tock. sedge handles, per dozen
Quality extra shaved, No. l, per Dozen
Tool steel bar iron, per 10.
Horse shoes and nails for same Oak ana NICK
DRY wood for wagon repairs.
10 TO 6O-penny nails finch cut spikes, per keg
Els, tees, reducers. crosses caps, up to 4-inch,
all TO be beaded malieahle fittings galyaniZe and
black. Give list per 10 and discount
Couplings. bushings, plugs, unions, Mango unions,
American unic Ms cheek, angle and 'ilone vaiv' 8,
steam cocks, gate valves. water gates. nipples.
lock nuts. waier-gau glasses common pipe tongS,
Brooks chain tongs oe's wrenches, black; >tIison
wrenches, files, machine bolts wrought pipe = TO
chase zinc otIers' No, to No. 5: discount off
standard list galvanized and black brass and IRON.
Corporation cocks. "a to inch, for Mueller tap
ping machine.
CORPORATION cocks patent, Z to inch. for Muel-
Ter tapping machine.
Soap-Tyee. Savon. Rial and Ciarette, per box.
Detz tubular lanterns. with wicks. per dozen
Globes for Deitz tubular lanterns white and ruby,
per dozen.
FIRE DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES
Oxalic acid axle grease, bran, harness backing.
tath brick. coal for reboat coal for engine-houses
chopped feed, hay oais, bicarDooate of soda, tri-
poll. blue stone, rubber hose sleeps wool spongeS
eight TO the pound channels skins
HEALTH DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES
Burial Of city patients, drugs. prescriptions;
hospital care Of sick, hack hire, removal OF dead
CITY ENGINEERS sUPPLIEs
Giant powder, fuse and caps
China nut oil.
Winter bleached wha ale Gil.
Wood for Lake Union sewer tunnel.
Maynard shoves.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rough Ilnnber fir and cedar at wards. load
lots on cars: dressed lumber, hooring ceiling and
ru tic piles. 30 10 IS feet in length. balec hay.
chopped feed, bran. oats. cement. lime and Dick
in small lots for ordinary building and sewer work;
sewer pipe and fitting; Gu. spikes; Finch cut
= inch wrought iron spikes, paints and painsers'
suppl es. picks, shovels, mattocks. spike mauls.
hatchets. axes. miscellaneous tools and general
hardware, manhoe covers Office desk. Ledsteads
and bed furnishings, chairs carpets, window
harness and sad1Isrg. genera office Stationery
printing tarms 10 be seen a. othce)-
Trade catalogues with marked discounts will lie
received as bids Tor any articles, even II not ABOVE
enumerated liable TO be needed by the city, the in
tention being as far as practicable, 10 cover the
whole ground of the ctys expenditures for it's
daily needs In the various departments.
Bidders are particularly requested TO give defn:
the goods on which they bid, that an intelligent
choice may be made from those offered.
for supplies"
By order of the board of public works.
C. G. HEIsNER, Secretary.
First publication June II. 1892.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR BRICK-BIDS WILL
~ be received by the board of public works Of
the city Of Seattle up to II Friday. June cath,
1897 for 1oOO, 00o brick (more or Iess), to be de-
Hvered in lots from ten thirty thousand per
week. as called for by the city engineer during the
construction of the lining of the Lake Union sewer
tunnel.
They shall be OF good quality of hard burned
brick, regular In form, without warp and with
square edges, and. when struck, shall give clear,
ringing souni. When broken they must exhibit
uniform grain, tree from air bubbles cracks,
coarse pebbles or unground clay. no salmon
soft brick allowed on the ground. Each bidder
Will furnish to the board samples OF the brick he
bidder VIII be Kept and all brick furnished must be
equal in quality and shape to the samples. All
rejected brick must be AZ once removed from the
ground by the contractor.
Bids will also be received for 125.0OO brick
(more or lesS) made of suitable clay that has been
prepared thoroughly in the sa ne manner and
with the same that clay is prepared for sewer
closed down-draucht kiln, and salt glazed. In size
the bricks are to be of The usual form. They are
to be in every way hard and durable and as
well glazed as the test grade of vitrifed sewer
pipe. Bidders Wi! also furnish samples of these
bricks. TO which all bricks delivered tif a contract
therefor be et) must be equal in quality and
shape and size.
These brick must be delivered ct either or all
OF the following points in the city of Seattle in
lots as ordered by the city engineer: ~. at or
near the foot of Depot street; CT. at or ar the
corner OF Lombard and Republican str cts: 90.
at or near the corner OF Rollins and Republican
streets
The rights reserved to reject any and all bids.
G.. G. HEIFNf.E, Secretary