The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-16
A CHAT TANOOGA
FIRM AWARDED
PAVING CONTRACT
SOUTHERN PAVING AND CON.
sTRUcTloN COMPANY suc.
cEssFuL BIDDERS.
Their Bid of St.55 Per Square Yard
With Tar Filling, Was Accepted.
Work to Begin at Once and VIII Be
Completed in Two Months.

The additional two blocks of paving
on Newcastle street, from G. ace.ter
to G streets, is to i1e done ty the
Southern Paving and Construction
company, of Augusta, the bid of that
concern having been accepted by the
public works committee of the city
yesterday afternoon
The bid of this ompany was $155,
tar filling to be used, while the Geor-
gia Engineering company, of Augusta,
the only other bidder, who secured
the last contract, submitted a ibid of
S1.7O per square yard. A bid for $1.45
for paving with sand filling was also
made by the Augusta concern. The
bid Of that company, however, not be-
ing in accordance to the specifications,
was not considered In any event the
Chattanooga concern submitted the
lowest bid by Is ents per square
yard.
The successful company was repre-
sented 'by j. D. Harvey, who was in
the city and who attended the meeting
and who stated, after the bid of his
company was accepted, that the work
would begin as soon as practicable
and that 1t was the intention of his
company to complete the entire con-
tract within two months from date.
Besides the members of the public
works committee. Mayor Hopkins,
Aldermen Goldsmith and Boyle and
a number of citizens were present
when the bids were opened
The paving, if the specifications are
carried out, and they will be under the
contract, will be an Improvement over
the work just completed by the Au-
gusta concern, as the specifications
call for a superior grade of brick, as
well as tar filling. 1t is already real
lied that a great mistake was made
in using sand filling on the first two
blocks, and, as the tar filing will cost
only 10 cents per yard in addition the
city feels that the bid of the Chatta-
nooga concern was an unusually low
one.
The Southern Paving and Ccnstruc.
ton company is one of the best known
concerns of the kind in the south and
has done much paving work in Chat
tanooga, Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta
and various other southern cities, and
the concern has reputation of giving
thorough satisfaction.
An interesting feature brought out
in these bids was that the difference
between the bids of the successful com,
pany, the Southern Paving and Con-
struction company, and the Georgia
Engineering company, who did the
original paving, from Mansfield to
Gloucester, for sand filling, amounts
to Is cents per square yard, which
would mean saving to the city, on
the basis of sand filling on the 1900
yards to be paved, of $1,0S0.00. This
is to say the old contract for sand
filing was placed with the Georgia
Engineering company at $1.45 per
square yard for a sand filling and in
the estimates yesterday this same
concern submitted bid of $1.70, with
a tar filing, thus allowing 25 cents
per yard for the difference in tar fill
ings On the other hand the. Chatta-
nocga people made their bid at $l.55
for tar filling and deducting the diff
ference for the sand, would have log
ically brought their bid down to $1.30,
making a difference in the cost to the
city of $1,0S0. AS it is the city gets
the Better and more substantial tar
filling In this new work at sl.55, or at
Just 10 cents per yard more than was
paid for the other job with the infer
iior sand filling.
INCREASE DiFFERENTlAL.