The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-24
DOYLE & SWARTZ LOW
BIDDERS ON WATERWAYS
Sharp Competition Is Shown,
Which Means Saving of Sl5.-
900 to the City.
BIDS ON WATER MAINS.

Bids on four public improvements,
calling for an approximate cXPendl-
tnro of 100000. were received by the
board of public works Friday evening,
but only one of the tenders was ac-
ceptcd. that of j. B. llanley, for
$i01o.14, on sewer extension 2227, on
the west side Of Third West, between
North Temple and First North streets,
The bids on the other improvements
were referred 30 the city engineer TO
fabulate and report back TO The board
NJ 4.30 this afternoon. at which tune
The contracts likely will be awarded.
Uanlev's bid was The only tender on
sewer extension 227 and is approx"
mately so below the estimate.
The most important contract on
which bids We're received was for the
construction of the water mains for this
year, and either Swart5 Bros. &c Doyle
or T. r. Moran will do this work. There
is only Sl71.44 difference in their bids,
the former bid being $l55, l90.9o and
The latter's $155, ,36S.40. This is de-
close bidding, the next lowest bidder,
James Kennedy, being only S3992.39
higher than the DOYLE firm. Tho other
bidders and their bids may bo found at
tho head of this column.
For Twenty two Miles.
The roptract is for the construction
of approximately twenty-five miles oi
water mains This year. j. D. Ilanley
did the work last year for approx
matelv $3.50 900. The estimated cost
This year was about $500 600, and the
result Of tbe sharp competition means a
saving to the city of something like
$4,000.
Dovle Bros. & Swartz arc combna-
lion Of the local firm of Doyle Bros,
plumbers, and tho Swartz contracting
firm of Colorado Springs, Col. If they
secure this contract this will be the
first public improvement of any note
that they have attempted in this city,
j. d. Hanley was the lowest bidder
on curbiug and gathering extension $,
Oh the west side OF Fifteenth East
street, between First aud Second South
streets, his bid being $S29.72 6-10. as
against the bid of s. Birch 4 Sons Con
struction company of S963.36, conse-
ouently Hanley likely will get this con-
tract.
Hanley also was the lowest bidder
on sidewalk extension l42, on the east
side Of Fifth East street. between First
South and Brigham streets, and both
sides of First South. between Second
and Sixth East streets Hanley BID
was S205012 so and Birch & Sons s
$2417.
No Bids on Connection.
There were no bids on the connection
Of the Fifth South street sewer with
the intercepting sewer at Fifth South
and Eighth West streets, and as this Is
the second time that the board has
called for bids without success the city
engineer Will make the connection at
IN estimated cost Of 5000. To make the
connection it viii be necessary to lay
seventy feet Of twenty four inch pipe.
In spite of the fact that the city has
provided 400 feet Of drain pipe in
sewer extension I0S, which is almost
mile, tlfe property owners are de-
manding more pipe and 10 cut off this
imposing on the city the board called
in the extra work order on drain pipes
III this Improvement
+. D. Hanlev will lay several small
water main extensions in the south
eastern and eastern part Of the city I'M
der his 1908 contract for building wa
Ter mains for the city.