Arizona republican., 1911-12-13
BIDS RECEIVED
FROM CONTRACTORS
ONLY TWO CONTRACTORS IN.
TERESTEO AND TOO MUCH
WORK FOR THEM.
Awards Will Probably be Made BY
Water Users on Friday.

The Salt River Valley Water Users
association yesterday opened bias fol
The widening of the Grand canal be-
tween the Park road and the present
head of the canal in the Crosscui
canal. The work TO be done had been
cut in three divisions for the reason
that il was not expected that any
available contractor would have force
enough To do the entire job between
now and the first of February, by
which time il was hoped To have il
completed. Any contractor however
was privileged 10 be his own judS@
and could bid on any one or two or
on all three Of the divisions if he
felt equal To the task.
The result was that there were
only two bids submitted. one was by
DR.. J. c. Norton who bid on all three
divisions but stipulated that he would
not undertake more than one division,
in case he was successful in the bid
ding on more than one. but that he
would take any one of the DIVISIONS
to which he might be assigned, in the
event he was successful in all of
them His bid was - cents per Gu
bic yard on the first division. which
is the east end. IS cents for the sec
ond division and 20 cents for the
third division or west end. This was
for clearing the brush and eNcavating.
The other bid was submitted by
Grant Brothers who are nGaged in
excaVating the Grand Canal extern
sion They bid only on the first div
ision the price being IS cents without
the clearing which they stipulated the
association should do itself or they
would do on force account and fifteen
per cent AIDED money As the clear
ing is estimated 10 be worth about
four cents yard il is estimated that
there is little difference between the
bids on the first division. The charac-
ter OF the dirt to be moved is about
the same in all divisions, the differ
ence in cost being due IL the differ
ence i'm brush and some physical fea-
lures in respect of the grading.
The reason for beginning the work
a. once is that the farmers can better
afford To be without the use of the
canal from now until February /, than
at any other time of the year and the
water of course must be turned out
during the excavation. But il must
be turned in again by February first
for the crops will need water by that
time and such agreement has been
made with the farmers. Az they are
short contractor for one Of the de-
visions there seems TO be at this time
only one way out
That will be TO give the first divis-
ion TO Grant Brothers and the third
division 10 DR.. Norton. Through the
middle or second division the Grand
canal is parallel with the App: d ria
tors which il is TO supplant. and close
t. it. 1t is deemed feasible To build
the two end divisions. then turn in the
water on February first as planned
! OOrs can he thrown across the
Grand divcrtinS the water around the
narrow place. through the Appropria
tors, to the capacity Of the latter.
while the narrow place in the Grand is
being enlarged This can be done at
some time when the farms under the
Grand can get along with canal runs
that only equal the capacity Of the
Appropriations. All this is merely sug-
gestive Of what is being considered
for action has not been taken on the
Norton or Grant bids. The board of
governors will probably meet Friday
and make awards.