Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1899-06-21

and the said bids were opened and rea
at the meeting of the city council o
Tuesday evening. They are as follows
SALEM LIGHT & TRACTION co.
The following bids, two i'm number
were submitted by the above name,
company:
''To Mr.. George Grswold, Mr.. S. A
Riggs, Mr.. Fred Legg special commit
tee of the common council of the city
OF Salem, Oregon, and to the honor
able The Mayor and the Common
Council Of said city-Gentlemen:
The Salem Light & Traction Company
does hereby submit for your considera
tion the different proposals for the light.
ing of the streets of the city of Salem, as
set forth in the attached schedule de.
nominated schedule a. which said
schedule is hereby made a part of this
proposal. In making the proposal for
the use of 1900 candle-power lamps the
company reserves the right, should the
contract be awarded to it, on that basis,
to fill and carry out said contract with
the 2000 candle-power lamps heretofore
used, until such time as il shall be con-
venient for the company to change the
lamps ii 1900 candle-power lamps were
to be used, new, and as a matter OF
fact, the latest, lamp would be purchased
for this purpose, and it has been found
extremely difficult to obtain these lamps
in any quantities, within reasonable
time, hence the foregoing reservation.
We enclose you certified check in sum OF
$1,000. There has never been built any
1900 candle.power arc lamps and as the
machinery would have to be made spec
ial for these, the price would be such
that the cost to the city would be higher
than for 2000 candle-power, therefore we
do not bid on 1900 candle-power are
lamps"
Schedule A, mentioned in the forego-
ing, is in substance as follows;
ARC LIGHTING.
Forty-fve lamps years-200O G. p.
are lamps (open) S. per month per lamp,
all night and every night; same for all
night less moonlight nights; $3.50 per
month per lamp, midnight and every
night; same for midnight less moon
light nights. 1900 G. p, enclosed
S6.25, $6.25, S., $5.35 lamps years
1000 c. p. arc lamps, open, s., IS, $3.50,
$3.50; 1900 G. j. arc lamps, enclosed,
$6.25, 1926, s., s.. As lamds--3 years
200O G. p. arc lamps, open, $3.50, $3.50,
81, 81; 1900 G, p. arc lamps, enclosed,
$3.50, $3.50, $3.50, $3.50 S5 lamps
years POGO C.,P. arc lamps, open, $3.50
$3.50, 81, 81 1900 c. p, arc lamps, en-.
closed, $3.50; $3.50, $3.50, $3.50.
"The Honorable Mayor and the Com
mon Council Of Salem, Oregon-Gen-
tlemen:
The Salem Light & Traction Company
begs to submit herewith for your con-
sideration proposal for the lighting OF
the streets OF the city OF Salem, by
means either of 81 candle-power mean
descent lamps or 80 candle-power Wells
back gas burners. The proposal sub
mitted herewith is in every way in ac-
cordance with the requirements Of your
advertisement, excepting only that this
proposal contemplates that the city will
furnish at its own expense the posts and
lamps ready to commence lighting and
that after the city has once furnished
and placed in position the posts and
lamps, this company will maintain
them at the prices indicated per month.
This company further agrees that it will
furnish TO the city the necessary posts
and fixtures for either class OF lighting
at price OF Sl2 per post complete. To
arrive at the actual cost to light the city
under this bid 2Oc per month should be
added TO the cost which the company
asks for maintaining each light, to pay
for the property. The city having paid
sl2 per lamp for the equipment, this
sum distributed over period OF five
years, sixty months, would average 2Oc
per month. This proposition, however,
would leave the city in possession Of the
necessary lamps 50 that, after the five
years were mp, the only cost would be
the amount paid TO someone 10 main
tain the lights"
The aforementioned proposal is
given, in substance, as follows:
MCANDEsCENT LIoHTING.
Two hundred lamps years-22 c. p.
lamps, either on wooden posts or strung
from wires tl.l2 per month per lamp,
all night and every night; $l.l2 all
night, less moonlight nights; 80 cents
per month, per lamp, midnight and
every night; 80 cents, midnight, less
moonlight night. The same prices were
proposed for 100 lamps for 5 years, for
200 lamps for years, and 100 lamps for
3 years.
wELsBACH GAS BURNERS.
Two lamps years-jO G. y. Wells
bach burners ON wooden posts; tl.75 per
month per lamp, all night and every
night; tl.75 per month, all night, less
moonlight nights; Sl.25, midnight and
every night 81 .25, midnight less moon
light nights. The same prices are Of
iered for 100 lamps, years 300 lamps
3 years 100 lamps, 3 years.
THE weIsBACH STREET LIGHTING con-