Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-10-27

ENGINEER ON
THE BIG dam
tie Returns 20 II PdSO From
Los Cruces and Gives Out
Facts About Bids.

D. A Han supotisine onsluoeF OF
the southwestern division or tho Uni.
ted States reclamation service. re.
turned Go El paso THURSDAY morning
from Las Cruces accompanied by Mrs
tan, Says the umen
Mr. Han D. rltulHuR froW las Ciu-
ees. where BE- was one OF the board of
three which opened the bids for the
construction OF lho Lccsburg dam, a
portion of the Elephant Butte dam.
which will irrlgate the land surround
ing El Paso.
ON she board woro. n M. HaiL
supervising engineer for The south.
western division of the reclamation
service; w, A. stevens. consulting
engineer FOR The western and south.
western division. and VIM. Reed con
struciinE engineer OF the li0ndo and
Carlsbad dams on the pecos and for
thch Elephant Butte dam on the Rio
| Gundc. In lha reclamation service
there are three divisions of engineers
consulting supervising and construct.
ing, aud each of these three wero
represented ga the board. There are
only hvo consulting engineers in the
service, one OF whom ia MI Sanders
who was ON the board empowered 90
open the bids for the I.oosburE pro-
/ icct Mr. Sanders was unable 20
attend The meeting of the hoard out
wired bic authority io che other two
engineers 10 open tho bids. DE viii
arrive IN El pag0 lator "a confer with
Mr. Han.
when lho bids we're opened al 2
o'clock October 18th u was found
that there were only two bidders ON
tno work and only one OF these for
the entire contract IN placing the
lc0ntract the work was divided into
three schedules. Schedule No L.
The dam. an concrete work and 5000
feet of canal. Schedule No. 2-Five
miles Of canal not Included IA SEIZED.
ule No. !. Schedule No. 3--Dlver'
sion % the river bed for about n mile
near Penasco rock. AZ this point the
river bed cuts 10 IN such a way
as % endangor the route OF the canal
and for this reason Il viii be diverted
70 prevent tho menace.
J. d. Nelson OF san Antonio. Texas,
MADE bid on the entire contract.
including the three schedules. Albert
Wallis OF el Paao made hid on
schedule No 3. Nelson was lower
IN HIS bid for schedule three than
WAS Wallis and being the only bidder
on the remainder win be awarded the
entire contract " the secretary OF the
interior approves the bid.
fhe report OF the board which open.
ed the bids together with the bids
were yesterday forwarded 10 the Sec
Rotary Of the interior and uction ON
me bids 10 expected within two or
three weeks Should the secretary
OF the interior disapprove OF the bid
two courses are Oper 90 rondvertlse
81 bids, rejecting the present one. or
construct the work ON force ac-
/ count BY the government The lat
/ ter Is the more likely we're the sec.
Rotary tp reject the bid, which is not
/ likely. as the former would occasion
too much delay and the government
Is anxious 10 get the dam completed
as soon as possible.
No figures on the bids have been
made public as yet and the amount of
the successful bid will not be- given
out until action Of the interior depart.
ment ~ secured This 10 Oden for
the reason that there Is considerable
extra work which will be- done By the
contractor which Is not Included Ia
the specifications and for which the
government pays extra and estimates
OF these extras will be Z studied IN tho
amount OF the bid.
The total appropriation for the
Lceshurg dam "a only $500 600. "a
compared with 100000 for the Hondo
and stDu.o00 for the CARLSBAD project
The Tonic or Roosevelt dam Ia Ari
zona has been let under contract for
several million dollars Tho Lees
burg dam ~ one OF the preliminary
or diversion dams of the Elephant
Butte dam and for whirh there d an
appropriation nf f7.o90.000
The government viii rush the
building OF the Leeshurg dam as Il M
a certain way ties mp the entire Ele
phanl Butte project said Mr. Hal
last night al the AnFolus. There d
nothing Of Importance DO announces
now bat there win be- news plenty
before long IN regard 20 this dam Ac-
lcording 20 the iesms Of the speclaca
lions the work on the dam must be- BE-
gun within hiiecn days after the ap
prevail Of the hld by the secretary oI
tho Interior and the signing 0f ih'
lcontmct