The sun., 1898-10-11
HARBOR BIDS WERE OPENED
Engineer General Smith Making
Headway Toward the I'M
movement.

According to previous announcement
the bids for improving the harbor OF
Wilmington were opened yesterday at
the Government Survey office by General
Smith.
The bids are for dredging and rock re-
moval and the work specified in those
bids is for making the channel eighteen
feet deep at low tide, twenty-four feet
deep at high tide and $50 feet wide.
The contractor will be required to re-
move $500 yards of mud each day, and
three dredging machines will have to be
employed. The bids per cubic yard are
as follows: For dredging, American
Dredging Company, Philadelphia, II 1-10
cents; Rittenhouse Moore Company, OF
Mobile, Ala, Is cents; International
Contracting Company, of Syracuse, N.
Y, IA 99-l00 cents; Atlas Dredging
Company, of Wilmington, II $40 cents,
New York Dredging Company, of New
York city, 12 6-io cents; Baltimore
Dredging Company, OF Baltimore, Nd,
IS cents; Sanford & Brooke Company,
of Baltimore, 10 $40 cents; Simon
Hess, of New York city, IA 2S-100 cents.
For removing rock, J. J. Fitzpatrick,
Plattsburg, N. Y, $7.l3 cubic yard;
International Contracting Company, of
Syracuse, N. Y, $40; Isaac 7. Brown, of
New York city, $l3.45, P. Canford Ross
Company, OF Jersey City, N. j., $l4.71;
Harris I. Dunbar & Co., of Buffalo,
$ll. .S3; Simon Hess, of New York city,
$40; Charles W. johnson, of Lewes, Del,
$l3.45.
These bids will be sent to the chief
engineer, at Washington today, for ap-
proval, and if everything proves salts
factory the lowest bidder in each case
will be awarded the contract some time
this week. a...
No action can be taken at the office in
this city until the bids are approved in
Washington.
The engineer in charge will appoint an
inspector or inspectors, whose duty shall
be to exercise supervision of the opera
tions and to enforce compliance with the
evident intent and meaning of the con-
tract and specifications. The bidder to
whom award is made will be required to
enter into written contracts with the
United States, with good and approved
security, in an amount OF $40, 900, within
ten days after being notified of the &C.
ceptance OF his proposal.
Until the contract is awarded, it will
not be known what will become Of the
dredged material. People who have
been preparing to bid have been looking
about, while making such preparation,
for suitable manner of disposing Of the
mud. Owners of property on Cherry
Island marsh have been questioned
about the opportunities for depositing
the material on the marsh, and it is un-
derstood that some of the bidders have
figured on the cost with the hope that
should they be successful, arrangements
could be made to place at least some of
the dredged material on the marsh. An
owner of marsh property expressed the
belief that in order to throw the mud on
the marsh i'll large quantities some bank
building will be necessary.
Some of the bidders, if no available
dumping ground be found in this vicinity,
favor towing the mud in scows to
Cape Henlopen and deposit in the,
ocean.
The proposed deepening of the Chris
tiana and improving of the harbor has
already had its effect, and it is said that
there are two large concerns which had
about decided to locate their plants in
Wilmington within year, each desiring
good water and rail facilities.