The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-21
P. J. Moran, if Bids Are Ac-
cepted, at Once viii Begin
Work on Contracts.
WEST TEMPLE AND
BRIGHAM STREETS
Bids Higher Than City Engi-
Beer's Estimates, and Will
Be Considered Today.

P. j. Moran probably Will receive the
on West Temple from Fourth TO Fifth
South on Bingham street from Twelfth
East TO the Reservation, but all the
figures were so much in excess of the
city engineer s estimates and of last
year s prices that tho board has held
the matter over TO take IL mp with the
City Engineer, City Attorney, the May
or and the finance and street commit
tees Of the city council at meeting
10 DC held this Afternoon al clock,
Mr.. Moran was present at the meet
ing held Friday evening and declared
that he would 90 ahead NJ once with
the work despite all the recent legisla-
tion ii given the contract. He was
not talking on any guess work. but
had fully considered and taken advice
on the subject aud was perfectly will"
ing TO mako il test case
Moran s bid for the West Temple
work was in total, when an abstract
was made, $l1,S43.90 and the only other
one. that of the Barber Asphalt COM
papv, of Denver. SIS. .o69.5o for = five
year gUnrantnn. This was scarcely con
sdared, as all the work is being done
on basis Of n tcn-vpar guarantee,
For the work with ten.ycar guar
antee Moran s bid totahzed fl9,053.O
and that OF the Barber Asphalt com
ponv S20,lT9.50 The work would be
done according 10 Moran s offer IN lS5
davs and BY the Barber people in 200
DAYS. The Moran bids showed lower
on every portion of the work.
For the Brigham street extension, Mo
ran 8 bids amounted on hve-year
guarantee to S62, 1895 and that of
the Barber people TO s61 ,212.50,
For the same work on ten-ycar
guarntee Moran s bids reached $65.379,-
35 and the Barber Asphalt company s
$T0,462.50. No mention was made in
these bids Of the number Of days it
would take to complete the contract.
All these bids are greatly in excess
Of the cost Of similar work last year.
about 1s per cent. and are in excess
OF the estimates of the City Engineer
for the work about II per cent City
Engineer Kelsey in his preliminary es-
Inmates fixed the cost of the West TEN
pie street work at Sl6.024.2o. which is
s3,029.6l less than the offer of Mo.
ran.
The City Engineer estimated The
Brigham street extension to cost S56,
022+5, an amount So, 1860 less than
Moran will do the work for,
Moran explained TO the board that
this was because everything in the way
of material is higher now than 1t was a
year ago Prices have risen 33 per cent
on cement and 40 per cent on asphalt
UNI. Grading costs 80 per cent more
and excavating is much higher. This
was in explanation Of the fact that his
bid this year figured the excavating on
a basis of 10 cents while he did II last
year for 40 cents. The prices quoted
in his bid on this work were about the
same as in his bids of four years ago,
prices ranging about the same now as
then. He would GO right ahead with the
work. He thought il would take about
60 days for the railway people to get
out of the way.
The City Engineer was not present
and some of the members of the board
did not care about awarding the con
tract with such a difference between
the estimates and bids. The question
of a re assessment will be one of the
matters to be considered as the board
is proceeding in this work under the
old law and the levies have already
been made for the work on the en-.
giueer g estimates