The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
This Time 1t Is the Water Board
That Opens Them.

Bids for furnishing the water depart
ment with 1900 tons of Youghiogheny
coal were opened at q meeting of the
board of water commissioners yesterday
afternoon. The bidders were the Adams
Coal company, Philadelphia & Reading
Coal company. st. Paul 81 Western Coal
company, Northwestern Fuel company,
Eeughiogheny & Lehign Coal company,
Charles Nitz Coal company and Pioneer
Fuel company
The figures were the same on each bid,
the 1900 tons for McCarron's lake being
offered at $40. For the West st. Paul
station the price was the same, at Vadnais
it was $3.50 and at Centerville 1915 All
the bids for furnishing thirty tons Of
hard coal were $770 per ton.
The Northwestern Fuel company offer
ell run of pile" Youghiogheny at 1886
per ton. and to deliver Sheraton soft coal
at McCarron lake and West st. Paul
for $3.50 and Centerville for So. Charles
Nitz also offered Youghiogheny run of
pile" at 1915, and Hooking Valley screen
ed at the same price and run of pile
at $3.50.
Sarah Dowlan was the lowest bidder
for the wood wanted offering maple
wood at $3.50 per cord at McCarron lake
end s. at the local office. Pine slabs at
McCarron lake for $3.50 and the local
office for 1928. All the bids were re-
ferred to committee consisting of Sec
rotary Caultield. City Engineer Claussen
and Supt Starkey and the report of the
committee viii be acted upon at meet
ing to be held Tuesday.
The Northwestern Electric company
was awarded the contract for putting IN
six house telephones and indicators in
the office building on Fifth street at $'S.
Sixteen bids were received in answer
to the advertisement for furnishing $500
worth of printing and the contracts Will
be awarded at the next meeting.
Claims aggregating s16,S29.67 We're ap-
proved. OF this amount So, $50 was In
terest, $500 pay rolls for September and
the balance miscellaneous bills.
The board directed letter sent to the
board of public works in relation to the
change OF grade on Lexington avenue
between Orchard and Cross streets. The
board of public works completed the as
scssment for the Improvement, but over
looked the fact that the siXteen-lnch
main on the avenue viii have to be low
cred about seventeen feet Tor Instance
Of LOCO feet. The law under which the
change of grade Is made provides tnat
the water board shall be advised OF any
change Of grade on streets where mains
are laid and the expense, If any, IN relay
Ing the mains shall be provided for III
the assessment The cost to relay the
mains will be about $1,000 and Assistant
CORPORATION Attorney GriSss has not11led
the water board that the action Oh tne
board of public works Will he reconSld-
cred and the necessary amount Included
in the assessment.
The corporation attorney advised the
board that property owners living ON the
side of streets on which water mains
were laid could only be charged what
the cost of putting in service pipes was
worth As to equallzng the cost OF
service pipes to property owners living
on the side of the streets farthest from
the mains the attorney advised that the
cost could be equalized by charging only
for the work done from the center OF the
street.
Bids were received for furnishing and
putting up a wire fence around the res
e1voir at Centerville The Perkins Man
ufacturing company was the lowest bid
der offering to do the work for $llS per
foot. The Twin City Wire works bid $l;SO
and Joseph Rothwell $1S4 per foot the
bids were referred to the superintend-
emf and engineer.