Arizona republican., 1908-01-11
CONTRACT AWARDED
 FOR LAYING PIPE
City Council Now Ready For the Dirt Throwine-A Clear Construction Placed on the Saloon Ordinance.

The city council held a special meet ing yesterday afternoon for receiving bids for the laying of the pipe for the new city water system. Twenty-one bids were received, from firms with headquarters all the way from New York to San Francisco. Though a goodly number of bids were expected there were more received than had been looked for. The council held an- other. session last evening, and after figuring up the totals of the four low est bids, the contract was awarded to the firm of w. A. Rees & Co., of Fay etteville Arkansas.
 The twenty-one bidders were N. s. Sherman Machinery CO. Doyle and Schwartz, Wm. Tunney, T. c. Brooks and Son, F E. Frey. New Orleans En- gineering Co.,. by James O'Rourke. J. R. Gordon, Bosler & Flynn. Toohey & Russell (Phoenix) Geo. w. Craig, Wm. Evans (Phoenix), O. C. Thompson (Phoenix), F. Prindle. Rogers & Spen- cer. Penney & Sinclair, Geo. W. Sturt- evant, J. s. Penson. F. G. Mortimer. Joseph Stanley, H. G. Goelitz.
 The council, Superintendent Craig and Engineer Reed were all well pleas ed with the result of the bidding, as the estimates of many of the bidders were between 60 and 70 per cent only of the bids submitted at the time the contracts for material were let. There were seventeen different items upon which the bids were made and the en- gineers figured up the total on the four bids that were evidently the lowest. the totals being as follows: William Evans s32. .S05.S5: Joseph Stanley s3I.635.64: T. C. Brooks & Son, s30. .154.7O; w. A Rees $27.560.75, the latter being con- siderably the lowest bid.
 The chief item on which the bidding rested was the price per lineal foot for the laying of the siX-inch pipe. of which there will be approximately TO- 900 feet. Next in importance was the laying of the four-inch pipe and the eight-inch pipe. there being approxi- mately 10000 feet of the former and made on each item by the successful bidder was as follows: finch pipe. 1Sc; 6-inch pipe 20c; s-inch pipe 27c; 10-inch pipe 32c: 12inch pipe 4Oc: 16- inch pipe 55c; 4-inch hydrants $2.5O: 6-inch hydrants $3: 4-ineh valves. S150; 6-inch valves sL75: S-inch valves $2.5O; 10-inch valves sS.5O: 12- inch valves $4: I6-inch valves s7. Connection sI0; valve chambers ss: taking up old main 25c per foot.
 During the evening session. in re- sponse to the request of the saloon keepers. the council placed a construc- ton on the Sunday closing ordinance which goes into effect Feb. lst. that will enable those having restaurants or other lines Of business in their sa- loon buildings. to adjust Nthemselves 10 the situation before the first of next month. The saloonkeepers announce that it is their purpose to abide by the law rigidly. but they did not feel that they should be forced to close up any restaurant or. other business that oc- cupied a part Of the building and to determine the matter in advance, they asked the council to define what would be required in respect of a saloon so situated. Some suggested screening off the bar and leaving the doors open. Others suggested partition that could be unlocked and removed Monday mornings and others suggested the building of a removable partition around the bar.
 The council finally decided that to comply with the law it would be nec- essary for any restaurant or other business conducted, to be separated from the bar by a permanent partition that goes from floor to ceiling. It was conceded that for the purpose of con- venience during the weeks days when the saloon is operating, there may be a door between the barroom and the restaurant or other apartments. or perhaps more than one, if desired. but such doors must be tightly locked dur ing the hours the saloon is required to be closed