The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-27
DAVIS & HEUSER
LOWEST BIDDERS
In Line to Get Contract for
Building Aqueduct on
North Temple Street.
TENDERS ON OTHER WORK
SHEA & ANDERSON GET CON-
TRACTS FOR coNDUITS.

Davis & HeuSeT were the lowest bid
ders for the contract of building the
new North Temple street aqueduct.
their bid for reinforced concrete being
even lower than the others for the plain
concrete.
The tenders were opened by the board
of works last evening At the same
time tenders were opened for the build
ing of the conduits for the Salt Lake &
Jordan canal over Parley's creek and
the culvert over East Mill creek. Shea
& Anderson were the lowest tendeTers
for this work and were given the con-
tract, their bid for the Parley's creek
work being s2,145.50. and for the East
Mill creek conduit S7.437.S9. On account
of the necessity for having the work
done before the irrigation season opens.
they will be asked to begin woTk as
soon as the city council approves the
work.
This was the job which was given by
the city council to L. G. Kelsey. city
engineer, to have done. but whicA
members of the board claimed should
go TO the board under the law. When
the council and the mayor found out
that the former action was Illegal,
they took it away from the city en-
gineer and sent it to the board.
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The board of works will enforce pen
atty clauses in these jobs, the forfeiture
being S25 a day. This is because the
city is under obligation to the farmers
to furnish water, and the conduit must
be ready.
The other bidders for the two jobs
We're:
For the East Mill creek work: J. D.
Hanley, SS,369.50; P. J. Moran, s9,513.99;
Mcdonald & Mellin, S11, 297.02; ]. c. Nc
CURE. 11,312.15.
Parley's creek conduit: ]. c. MCGUIRE,
1888: J. d. Hanley. 1926; p. j. Mo-
ran, $3.50. This is to be of concrete
also.
An extra expenditure on the culvert
Will be concrete, which the successful
bidders agree to furnish at $3.50 a cubic
yard. Extra expenditures on the con-
duit will be concrete and drain pipe,
the former of which Shea & Anderson
agree to furnish at $50 q. cubic yard,
and the latter at 80 cents linear foot.
The conduit is to be of four feet
diameter and eight inches of concrete
thick. It is to be relaid a distance of
], 15S feet.
Some Sharp Competition.
There was some sharp competition
for the building Of the North Temple
aQueduct. This Work is also TO De
rushed, and the board Will undoubtedly
strictly enforce penalties 1t is to be
completed by June 1. 1t will extend
from Fourth West to Ninth West and
will be seven feet in diameter and eight
inches thick, if built of reinforced con-
crete, and eleven inches thick If OF the
plain concrete. It will do away with
the annual damage to property by rea-
son of floods along City creek following
the spring rains
Davis & Heuser's tender for doing
this work was for the reinforced con-
crete. S4S,252, and for the plain con-
crete it was higher, being S4S,5O0. The
contract was not awarded, action beng
deferred until another meeting TO be
held on Friday evening of next week.
The tender of Davis & Heuser was
surprise TO both board and the other
contractors, the engineers estimates
for the work being about $4,000. The
entire cost of building this aqueduct
comes out of the recent bond issue Of
$500. 600, and was one of the promises
made by the administration when the
taxpayers were asked to vote the
bonds.
The other tenders for the work were:
p. J. Moran, reinforced, S51,llS.5o;
plain. SILT James Kennedy. rein
forced, $50. 49,: plain. $50.142; Blodgett
Construction company, reinforced, 500
1880: plain. S5f, 1870. Hanley, rein
forced S55, O6O so; plain. $54,037. V 2.
strange, reinforced, $57. O23; plain, sos
SO. Shea & Anderson. reinforced, SOL
1925: plain S55,5 Mcdonald & Mel
lin. reinforced, S5S,s55.50; plain, so, 429.