The daily tribune., 1907-01-07
COUNTY WANTS work
DONE FOR A SONG

DONE FOR A SONG
Last Saturday the publishers Of
the county In compliance with = 70.
quest Of the county oommissioners.
hlsd their bids for the printing Of tbs
legal work Of the county. The con.
missioners had advsrtised for bids and
they wHre 10 b submitted TO the com.
missionsrs, Last Saturday. All the
publishers of the county bid tho rsgu.
lar prioe for suoh work: that 10 to say
eighty 70 mr. censs per inoh for the first
insertion and forty. eight cents for
each subseq quent insertion. This IL .
price prescribed BY law, fixed BY Colo.
RADIO ststutes.
All the papers asked 10 be made The
ofictal organ Of the county. II did
not make much difference to either Of
the papers which one was made the
official organ ~ lorg ~ the one who
did the work received the regular
price. Heretofore the printers have
been suckers and when the commits.
sione.s advertised for bids. the
different offices would submit bid,
frequently At one. third and less Of the
regular price. the price being so low
that when he figured his cost. there
Was no profits in the job
| This year they decided that which
ever paper WAS to do the printing
should make . little profit and they
propose standing by that resolution.
Saturday when The bids were open.
ed. the commissioners rejected the
same and IL 10 mot known what their
intentions are. but the intentions
Of the publishers are to stand pat.
The commissioners claim IL ism {
fair. that 1t Is combination; that 1t
is conspiracy. etc.
In years past the county commits
sioners In this county have lsuRhe d
at the publishers for cutting the bread
and butter out of the work and merely
doing the work for the glory there
might have been in 1t. but there will
b, mere glory to the publishers In
future In knowing that II they do
the work that there will be at leAst
ten cents on the dollar In the work.
The commissioners sAy 1t Ia NOS fair
for the publishing houses to bid the
price that ia prescribed by law.
There 10 no one in the county ont.
side Of the publishers, who knows the
price OF legal printing better than the
county commissioners. because they
must audit bills for legal printing
every month Of the year, but the
publishers are expected to continue
being suckers and do the work for
nothing ~ the CON missioners would
have them do
No. gentlemen. the time has
passed when one publisher will cut
his own throat for the sake OF keeping
the other printer from getting the
work. There IL only fair profit In
the work At the regular price. You
may make your selection - to what
paper you may name the county
organ. but you must pay him the reg
Mira piioe In future. As far ~ tile
action Of the Florence publishers Ii
concerned. IL makes but little differ.
snce to you. because you have alwayi
favored the Canon City papers and ~
far ~ you seemed to care. the publish
ers Of the Florence papers could &c
hungry Tor county printing.
They have rejected all bids. DoeI
that mean that you are going to at.
tempt to publish Fremont county
leRals In snme paper of another coun'
y? II that 10 your Intentions you
are on the wrong track. because the
publication Of such work would be
illegal and then the publishers, each
of them. would send In their bill fol
the amount Of money raid printing
would come to. and one Of them
would get It.
The best way IL 10 be manly; pay
the regular price for the work. THAI
ID ell the printers are asking for
there's no combination or no attempt