Arizona republican., 1904-06-30

| let and none can be for sometime yet
 for the reason that the money for the ! bonds is not yet here and no one knows 1 just when it will be. The board 6oes
 not feel justified in letting q contract till it has the money to guarantee it's fulfiilment.
 This however is no reflection on the
 buyers of the bonds who will in due time no doubt, pay over the money, their reason flor not having. done so heinz that their attorneys. Messrs Dii- lon & Hubbard of New York have not yet had time to thoroughly investigate and approve the bonds. 1t has bsen race against time, in an effort to bring the whole asylum impI ovement enterprise out of a sCrt of a chaotic or at least a mixed condition, that has prevailed ever since the legislature first provided for the issuance of these bonds. Though everything is in regu- als have had a hard time in work ng wardly drawn and the territorial otfici- als have htd a hard time in working up to it's provisions. It provided that certain sums might be expended on the asylum each year for q certain length of time. One section said $20 0000. worth of bonds might be sold for use during the year ending July 1904. The sec tion following said the same amount migrt be expended during the year ending July 1903. During succeeding years $10,000. per year might be eXpen- ded. Congress did not approve the law till May of this year. It was too late to appropriate anything for 1903 and was almost the eleventh hour of 1904. But the bonds for 1904 were sold only a short time ago and the advertising for the improvements needed was begun, bids being opened yesterday as peI mention above and contracts will no doubt be let cs soon as the bond buy CTS can respond.
 Still another unusual thing is found and that is in respect of the law pro- viding for the advertisement of bids for construction. It was made incum- bent on the board to advertise for bids on plans for the proposed structure. to be opened on e certain date and also to advertise for bids on the construc- tion under the plans. these bids also to be opened on the same date. It was confusing, in that it forced all bidders for construction, to also submit plans themselves on which their construc- ton bids were made, or else in some manner lIlu Oul all lilG PAell4o IileAt were to be submitted and bid on each one of them, or on such as they pre- ferred to. They would have to bid on all sets of plans to be absolutely sure that they had had a chance at the ones the board would finally decide upon.
 The board of course outlined in a general way what was wanted so there was a resemblance in all plans but ion, ,1; ir e mo details.
 Plans were submitted by Willard x Son. A. w. Gregg and F. Sunderland. Mr. Sunderland also submitted a bid for construction on the plans ne ha5 drawn. C. Campbell submitted bids on the plans of both Gregg and Willard. There were some other bidders, among them Fifield and Gallagher, so that on the plans of both Willard and Gregg there were two CT more b.ds. The bids made on the Gregg plans were lower than on the other plans, though as mentioned above no choice is amour ced and probably would not be anyway till after all the plans and bids had been. carefully gone over. There is UT gent need for the Improvements at the asylum and it would be desirable to hurry things for that reason and as explained above the board had to hurry to take advantage of this years appro- priation, last years provision having already gone by the board and that for subsequc at years being but half as large. When the asylum was built it was designed to accommodate about 15O patients. It is now caring for near ly double that number or at least some where between 250 and 300 IL was the wish of the board to build two cot tages. One at either end of the main building, each to have four wards and accommodate about 100 patients, tho overflow from the main building. It was estimated that each of these cot taees would cost approximately O.OOO. If both were built it would eat up the entire appropriation for 1904, leaving nothing for maintenance, so it was de cided to build but one at This time and with the surplus money added to neX- years appropriation the other building might later be considered. The bids oTi the Gregg plans were something nnde; the s10,0OO. estimate and on the Willard plans a little over.
 The proposed cottages are each to be in the form of an l., the one at the east end extending an arm toward each the west ana soulh ana one dt the west end extending an arm toward each the east and the south, so that when both are completed the asylum buildings would form three sides of rectangle, the open side facing the Tempe road.
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