Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-08-04
COUNCIL . LET'S u
: SEWER CONTRACT
TANNER BROS, OF ST. PAUL, THE
SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS.
Their Bid is but Little in Excess of
the Engineers Estimate-They
Will Begin Work within Couple
of Weeks.

On Monday night, the city council
awarded to Tanner Bros, of st. Paul,
the contract for building the portion
of the Morris sewer system which has
been ordered built this year. The
contract price is $21, s62.56, and the
sewer to be built this year is as fol-
lows: Septic tank and general sewer
to the south end of Atlantic avenue,
joint district sewer up Atlantic ave-
nue. to Fourth street, district sewer
continuing up Atlantic avenue, joint
district sewer up Oregon avenue and
district sewer on East Fifth street; on
the west side, a joint district sewer
across the track, district sewer up
the alley parallel with Pacific avenue,
a district sewer on West Seventh
street, also one on West Eighth
street, and also one on Park avenue.
Tanner Bros, the successful bidders,
are at present building the new fish
hatchery at Glenwood. They plan to
begin on their contract here as soon
as possible, which will probably be
within two Or three weeks. Their
contract calls for the work to be fin
ished by December 1st.
The other bidders were Fraser &
Elliott, of Rochester, and Jones &
Roderick. of Canton, S. D. The Jones
& Roderick bid was very much higher
than the other bids, and specified
July 1st, 1907, as the time for COM
pletion. Fraser & Elliott were close
to the successful bidders on some dis
tricts but they bid on only part of the
work and wanted till July 1st, 1907 to
complete it. Mr.. Fraser already had
several other large contracts on hand,
and for that reason did not want to
undertake the whole contract.
Engineer Wolff was present at the
council meeting, and inspected the
various bids.
The matter of superintendent of
construction was talked over, and
Mr.. Wolff agreed to submit a propo-
sition in writing.
WEDNESDAYS REGULAR MEETING.
At the regular meeting Of the coun-
Gil on Wednesday evening, a propo-
sition was received from LoWeth &
Wolff that they would supervise th e
construction of the sewer, and make
five trips of inspection for $500. They
would also furnish a perintendent
for 1925 per month, the city to fur
nish him with a helper when one was
needed. The proposition was discuss
ed and accepted.
The usual number of bills were al
lowed. and other minor business trans
acted.
The treasurer's report for. July was
read, as follows
TREAsURER's REPORT.
Report for July, 1906.
GENERAL FUND
Receipts since July 1st. 61.3O
Overdraft July 1st. - 1864
Orders paid .......... 949.T 21l5.4l
Overdraft in general fnnd at
date hereof ............. 2054.11
WATERwoRKs FUND
Receipts since July 1st. 264.33
Overdraft July 1st.-., 1859
Orders paid ...... 1862 355.91
Overdraft in waterworks fund
at date hereof, ,........,. 9l.58
LIBRARY FUND
Balance on hand July 1st, 857.96
Orders paid .-..... ..-...., 5000
Balance on hand in said fund 1875
INTEREST FUND
Balance on hand July 1st 49,, 4647.
No receipts
No disbursements
REHABILITATION
Balance Library Fund ...., 1876
Balance Iterest Fund .... 4647 80
5445. SO
Overdrawn in general ......,
fund. ........ 2O54.ll
SJV0ruEd"l
work fund ...-.. 9l.58 2l4o.o9
Cash on hand Aug. Isl, 1906 33OO.l7
&, DEPOSIT AS FOLLOWS
In Morris National .
Bank ....... l526.7O
Tn Stevens Co. State ..
Bank .. 1773.38 33OO.l7
Yours respectfully,
LOUIS M. LARSON,
City Treasurer.
The End of The World
of troubles that robbed E. Ell. Wolfe,
of Bear Grove, Ia, of all usefulness,
came when he began taking Electric
Bitters. He writes: "Two years ago