The record-union., 1896-08-07
GREAT REGISTER PRINTING.
All Bids Therefor Were Rejected by the
Supervisors.
Capital Gas Company to Light the
Courthouse With Elec-
tricity.

for lighting the Courthouse and jail
with electricity for one year. Three
bids were received, as follows:
Central California Electric Company
| (South Yuba)-61a cents per 1000 watts.
Sacramento Electric, Gas and Rail-
way Company-10 cents per 1000
watts.
Capital Gas Company-6a cents per
1000 watts.
The Committee on Contracts retired,
and after consultation submitted the
following report:
"Mr. Chairman and members of the
Board of Supervisors-Gentlem Your
| Committee on Contracts recommend
| that the contract for lighting the Court
house and Jail with electricity for one
year be awarded to the Capital Gas
Company. (Signed) Todd, Jenkins and
| Dreman.'
Supervisor Curtis desired to know
why the committee had not awarded
the contract to the Central California
| Company, whose bid was a quarter of
a cent less per ZOO watts.
| Supervisor Todd said the committee
had what it considered good reason for
reporting as it did.
| Mr.. Curtis said that was all right, but
under the circumstances he wished to
be excused from voting.
| The report Of the committee was then
adopted, and the Clerk was then in
| structed to request the District Attor-
ney to prepare the necessary contract.
BRIDGE INSPECTION.
Chairman Morrison called attention
| to that portion of Engineer Robinson's
report on the Twelfth-street bridge in
which he recommended that it should
be examined and cleaned once or twice
| a year. Mr.. Morrison thought the iron
bridges at Folsom and the Slough
House should also be gone over, adjust
ed and cleansed Of mud or debris. The
board should, in his opinion, employ
| some competent person to do the work.
Supervisor Jenkins agreed with the
Chairman that some competent en-
gineer should be selected for the pur-
pose.
Supervisor Curtis said he would like
to have Engineer G. A. Stoddard and
J. E. Robinson select a man for the
work who thoroughly understood the
business.
Mr.. Morrison said he had no doubt
those gentlemen would be willing to
select man. He wanted some one who
was in no way interested in the con-
struction Of either of the bridges, for
| it had been insinuated in the past that
| interested parties had found a way of
making repairs necessary. ~
Mr.. Jenkins thought the builders Of
the bridges should be consulted in the
matter. He thought they would take
an interest in having their bridges put
| in good condition.
After some further discussion Super
visor Curtis, who is Chairman of the
Roads and Bridge Committee, was au-
thorized to engage some competent
bridge engineer to cleanse and readjust
the Folsom, Slough House and Live Oak
bridges, such person to be in no way
connected with contractors or bridge
| builders.
| Mr.. Curtis reported that he had WIS.,
tied the Twelfth-s street bridge, and that
Mr.. Laydon suggested that the old
p,anks be utilized for the temporary
bridge while the repairs are being made.
Mr.. Curtis thought this would be good
economy, and the board acquiesced.
GREAT REGISTER
At the afternoon session bids were
opened for printing the Great Register
| for 1896. Five bids We're received, as
| follows: Day & Joy, 33 cents per name;
Whitaker & Ray of Gait, % cents; Pa
cifc Printing House Darlington & An
derson), 25 cents; H. S. Crocker & Co,
II cents; D. Johnston & Co., II cents.
| The Committee on Contracts retired
to consider the bids, and reported final
| ly in favor of rejecting all the bids on
the ground that they were too high,
and that in the committees opinion bet
| ter terms can be obtained.
| The report was signed by Todd and
Jenkins, but brennan submitted mi
nority report recommending that the
contract be awarded to the lowest bid
der. D. Johnston & Co.
On roll-call the majority report was
| adopted, Dreman alone voting no.
| 1t was agreed that before the board
adjourned a special session would be
called at which new bids would be re-
ceived.
GRAND ISLAND ROAD.
A petition was received from J. L.
Aidrich, I. P. Hall and numerous other
residents of Grand Island asking the
board to extend the road formerly pc
titioned for from the lands Of Hall to
the road from Walkers Landing to
Beaver Slough. running through the
lands Of c. w. Clark, Williams & Blk
Ter and others. The petitioners state
that the road is necessity to dwellers
in the interior of the island
The report of the viewers, filed in
1894, recommended that the road be
opened.
The necessary action Of the board,
in the way of giving notice of a hear
ing. will be taken in the matter
| The board will meet again this morn