The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-08
WARREN CONSTRUCTION CON-
PANY LANDS FOURTH, ELM
AND SPOKANE STREETS.
Is Worth $4,000, According to Present
Specifications-Same Old Price Is
in Vogue.

| the council in awarding paving con-
tracts in Walla Walla that august
body experienced little trouble in par
| ceiling out to the Warren Construc-
ton company last night nearly $75,-
900 worth of contracts, calling for the
paving of Fourth. Elm and Spokane
streets with Warren bitulithic pave
ment. BY limiting competition to the
pavement handled exclusively by the
Warren people, only one bid for each
Of three streets was in last night when
the street committee opened bids for
the Improvement by paving Of these
three streets.
After opening the bids in star
chamber session, the street commit
tee, composed of Councilmen Glasford,
Bachtold and Mexican in a report to
the council, recommended that as the
bid of the Warren Construction COM
pany was the best bid submitted, that
the contracts be awarded to that COM
pany. The farce was too much for
Councilman Bridges to stomach and
he entered strong protest against the
procedure reiterating former asser-
lions that he wanted competition in
street improvement matters.
This is not the kind of COMPETE
ton that we should have in these
Matters Bridges plaintively de-
clared, Il want to know if the bids
submitted by the Warren Construc-
ton company are the only ones re-
| ceived." He was assured that they
were and then he added "It looks to
me as if this is the highest and best
bid instead of the lowest and best
bid. I am opposed to this high
handed method and 1 am compelled to
vote against the adoption of the street
committees report"
the street committee being taken
Bridges was the only dissenting voice
and the Warren Construction COM
pany was declared to have "gobbled
up another bunch of contracts.
Same Old Price.
The bids submitted by the Warren
company for paving Fourth, Elm and
Spokane streets were the same as put
| in for paving other streets paved by
the Warren company and were as fol-
| lows:
Warren Bitluthic pavement, s2.17
per square yard.
Encavating, 35 cents per cubic yard;
| fills 10 cents per cubic yard; curbing,
40 cents per lineal foot; curbing,
| curved with pipe iron projections, so
cents per lneal foot; drains, 6-inch
sewer pipe 80 cents per foot; drains,
Sinch sewer pipe 40 cents per foot;
inlets, $12 each; catch basins, $50
EACH incidental expenses 5 per cent
of the contract price.
May Reduce Cost.
| City Engineer Wilson stated last
| night that according to the specir-
cations on which the bids were re-
| ceived the cost of paving Fourth and
Elm streets would approximate $780,
| 900. Spokane street estimates were
not available but would approximate
| something like $4,000 or $4,000. The
council on the recommendation of En-
| gineer Wilson may decide to lessen
the width of the streets and raise the
grade which would reduce the esti-
mated cost approximately 20 per cent.
Fourth street bids We're received on
basis of 4S-foot street; Elm, "A feet
and Spokane, 4S on the south side,
and A on the north side. If it is de-
cided to narrow the streets the cost
of moving about 1000 cubic yards Of
earth will be saved, which will be con-
siderable.