The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-07
Adyertisss for Bids on Cedar River
Water Contract.
they WILL BE OPENED APRIL y.
EsGimnaes Askea Separately - fouR
what Each Embraees-spees1ea
items VIII be Ready Friday
work te Conscience Earlier Than
% First Believed Posslhle.

Advertisement for bids on the Cedar
river water contract will start with tins
mornings issue Of the observation-disclosures
and viii run for fifteen days AdsersNe-
usenta for two issues each VIII Also ap-
pear this month In the New York Enxi-
neerinx News, the New York Engineering
Record and this Mining and Scientific Press
Of California. Bids viii be opened In this
city April 1: by tbs board OF pubic works.
II = believed that the advertisements
proposed will reach ali the engineers In
the country who are liable to make estf-
mates. They are already well informed
Of the inten, % the city. and ire contract
need not be 30 extensively advertised as
one iea widely known.
No proposal Will be considered unless
strictly in conformity with the advertised
form Of proposals. Bids for each sub
division must be made on separate o.anks
accompanying entirely separate copies o..
the specifications. general clauses and
form Of contract, accompanied BY separ-
ate certiaed checks and seaiad IN separate
A. specified in the advertisement. the
contract VIII be let In foafr separate sub
divisions and will embrace the following
GenerEi items Of construction:
In subdivision Head works on Cedar
rive. consisting of diverting weir. intake
-rsnnl - feet long. settling basin. gate
house. dwelling house and stable.
Pressure pipe from head works TO high
neryice reservoir In City park. said pipe
being <z inches I'm diameter and ia miles
In length. of which Ga miles are 20 be rive
-esei steel and . miles to be wooden sxaye
pipe banded with steel hands y inch In
diameter. wooden stAye and steel pipe be-
tween high and low service reservoirs. 20
-1nchas In diameter. about one mile In
wooden ssave pipe. "a and - inches in
-<iiam,Dter.s sespenetsely. about Appo lineal
feet - waste pipe from high service reser-
weir to Lake Union. Change. of Cedar
river channel. 6s0Oc cubic yards excaya-
tlon.
: improvements at Swan Lake. consist
Ing 81 clearing land. construction OF dam
at outlet. intake and pipe connection with
satd lake
Ia su5diyision 2-H;gh service reser-
svoir end gatshouse In City park. capacity
OF aid RESERVOIR being about 100000 gal
Ions: low service reservoir. with gate
house and pumping plant. In Magic addi-
ton, capacity OF reservoir about D0oe. eoo
gallons. capacity of pumping plant 3eo0.uo0
gallons In - hours.
IN subdivision Island pipe on Queen
Anne hill - feet diameter by 70 feet high.
: lnqADed IN .Rans0nie concrete"
Force main from low service reservoir
10 stand pipe on Queen Anne hill, a.so
incl fset no & 1slnsh Rah ir,ash p aea
In eui,d.vislon Pipe line from the
low service reservoir 10 the present dis
tributing system. consisting OF $3.50 lineal
feet A%ineh rveted steel and leo lineal
feet 3o-inch cast iron pipe, also 20 lineal
feet sttnch rsveted steel pipe. for con-
Meeting said reservoir with Tenth avenue
sewer.
Separate bids will be received, and sep
arate contracts will be let TO the lowest
bidders for each of the subdivisions
Included In the advertisement Is state
rnent Of tho manner In which payments
VIII be made and giving all the financial
requirements TO he exacted from the con-
tractor by the city. The contractor will
he required to purchase at par any and
all warrants which shall be required TO
pay fer any real estate, rights. easements
or privileges necessary for the prnsecu-
ton Of the work OF construction. aud also
such warrants as shah he drawn by the
city In payment OF engineering ard other
expenses necessarily incurred In connec-
tion with the additions: provided. that the
total amount Of thu warrants thus re-
quired TO be purchased by the contractor
shall IN no case exceed &6a0N and shall
he distributed M follows:
AHainE subdivision No l. $s5oae:
against subdivision No. g st2.p against
subdivision No. :. 5000. against sub
division No. T. fl09
The book Of specifications II now In type
and Will be ready by Friday Tor inspection
by contractors. This work has been COM
plefcd earlier than was al first figured
upon. and win bring the initiation af the
work Nometfsne Ia the latter part OF April
instead ~ the FIRST uf MAY