The evening times., 1911-04-12
STREET PAVING BIDS
WERE FOUND TO
Be Low s.:
Six Contractors Entered Into
Competition for City.
Contracts.

Auo OAuS Ior paving IN districts 10,
is, and Is. were opened by the coun-
Gil at the meeting held Tuesday even
ing. There were six bidders for the
city work and on comparison with
bids for former years. the prices CIV
en- by the various companies this year
were very low.
There were specifications called for
on number of things besides the
paving of the streets. including prices
on manholes. curbs, catch basins.
sewer pipes and curb resetting. The
figures on the various items varied.
some Of the bidders being high and
others low.
The districts to be paved are dis
trict Is. taking in Cottonwood. Chest
nut and Walnut streets and such
parts of First. Second and Third ave-
nues, that intersect. The estimated
cost of paving this district is $4,000.
District Is, which takes in Third
street from the end of the present
paving to Skidmore avenue. taking in
lone avenue. Skidmore avenue. Hill
avenue, Third street to the alley be-
tween Third street and Second street
The estimated cost of paving this dis
trict is s26.600.
District No. Is takes in Lewis
boulevard, running in front of st. Mi
chael's hospital, alley between Third
street and Second street to point $50
feet south of Park street. The esti-
mated cost of paving this district is
S1S,700.
Blome Company.
The Blome company of Chicago bid
only on their patent paving, much Of
| which has been laid in the south end
of the city. Their bid for all three
districts was $2.40. Their price was
| comparatively low on the incidental
items.
Paddy Mcdonnell.
Paddy Mcdonnell of Duluth was
lower on this years bid than on the
| past two previous years. The bids
as furnished were uniform in the three
districts, the paving bids were as
follows:
Cement concrete, $40; Donnellite.
81; asphalt macadam. $3.50; asphalt
concrete, 81: creosoted block. 20
pound treatment, 1-2 inches, $2.7O,
inches. $3.50; vitrif1ed brick, $2.55;
combination, cement section. $40;
paved roadway, $2.1O and 1920, ac-
corning 10 material uSe0.
Grand Forks Concrete Co.
The bids Of the Grand Forks Con-
crete company were as follows:
Cement concrete, $1S3; asphalt
macadam, with Tarvia- V treatment,
$3.50, with Westurmite. 1920; creo-
soted block, 3 31-2x20, 1885; combina-
tion cement work, $1.S5; paved road
way, $1.85 with Tarvia and 1926 with
Westurmite.
Northern Construction Co.
The Northern Construction COM
pany in addition to the bids on the in
cidental items, furnished prices on
four kinds of pavement. The prices
follow:
On cement concrete, $1.S5. asphalt
macadam, Tarvia finish, $1.S5; COM
bination, $1.95 for concrete work and
s1.S5 for paved roadway with .Tarvia
finish.
Bitulithic Company.
Two kinds of pavement were bid on
by the Bitulithic company, their own
special patent pavement and the COM
bination concrete roadway. Their bid
on the Bitulithic pavement in Dis
trict Is. was 1852 and was five cents
higher per yard in the other two dis
tricts. On the combination paving,
the bid for the concrete strip on Dis
trict Is was $1.90 and the roadway
was s2.45. In Districts 16 and 1S
their bids for the combination pave
ment was $500 and 1856. In, a COM
munication to the council. this COM
pany offered to reduce their prices,