The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-25
80 CENTS FOR SQUARE YARD
This Makes Cost to Property Owners
$50 Per Lot, With Five Years
in Which to Pay.
LIST OF THOSE AFTER WORK
Only Two Bemidji Firms Contesting
and Both Were Underbid by
the Outsiders.
80 ---.----- L.

80
the Outsiders.
Actual work OF laying pavement
on II of the downtown business
streets of Bemidji will begin in ten
days time. F.. ---. =
Fourteen bids for laying the pave
ment, which is to be cement, were
opened at the city council meeting
last night and the Northern Con-
struction and Engineering company
Of Grand Forks was awarded the bid
on a zone to three and a half finish
at the rate of 80 cents per square
yard. the other bidders ranging up
to as high as 1929.
There were but two Bemidji firms
in the list of bids: John Goodman
at 1920 and Nels Loitved at 80
cents.
w. H. Robinson, present at the
council meeting as representative
of the Northern Construction and
Engineering company, Grand Forks
concern, said work of putting down
the pavement would begin just as
soon as the necessary materials could
be brought to BemidI.,. -.
There will be no delay said Mr..
Robinson, who expects to have per-
sonal charge of the work, sfor it will
require all the good weather remain
ing before freezing time to complete
the work. We, of course, can not
put the pavement down until the wa
ter mains and storm sewers are out
of the way, but that work, too, will
be rushed"
= Nearly Lost By Check.
The Grand Forks firms financial
standing is said to be good. In fact,
it's standing was really what saved
it the contract last night. Accord
ing to the city charter a certified
check on a Bemidji bank should have
gone in with the bids The Grand
Forks firm handed in check on a
Grand Forks bank. After its bid had
been selected as the lowest the point
was raised that the bid was irregu-
lar. Mayor Parker explained that
Mr.. Robinson had inquired about
that very point and had been in
formed that a check on an outside
bank would be acceptable. A. P.
White, president of the Bemidji
Northern National bank was in the
council chamber and offered to GER
tify the check which he did.
"That means just $3.50 as the
cost of paving for 25 foot lot,
said Mayor Parker, who has been a
champion of paving for Bemidji, af-
ter the contract had been awarded
last evening. "That means that for
this sum you get Sc feet of pave
ment, and you have five years in
which to pay for it-that is $13 a
year. At that bid it would cost but
$50 a lot on the residential streets
which are narrower"
The council chamber was filled
with contractors when City Clerk
George Stein began tearing open the
bids at the regular meeting OF the
council last night, presided over by
President l.. F. Johnson. The fol-
lowing aldermen were present: Roe,
Bailey, Klein, Bisiar, Brown, Grip
pen and Smart.
There were three propositions on
the paving, all for cement but with
varying grades and finishes. Num-
Der. 2, the one accepted provided for
a pavement similar to the one put
down on Third street last fall, but
somewhat less cement.
These Submitted Bids.
The paving bids resulted as fol-
lows:
e. A. Dahl:
No. .35 So yard
No. 2 .95 SO. yard
No. 3 1.5O SO. yard
Removing surplus earth 6Oc Gu. I'd.
Thomas Johnson: 81
No. 1 16 50. yard
No. LIP 50. yard