Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-05
frank COMPANY GERS WORK OF
ovlLpiNo THREE REINFORCED
CONCRETE BRIDGES.
WHEELER LUMBER COMPANY
AWARDED LUMBER CONTRACT
,cslis Fer 1s4,2oo Feet Of Lumber and
1 Aeoo Fest Of Pilins For $e,2eo-csn.
tract Price For Bridges 10 311,soo-
! AZ Thrss to Dc Built in Taylor
3 Township.


sture Of close to S17.s0O were awarded
10y the board Of supervisors late We'd
Snesday afternoon for new county
llbridges and for lumber and piling, the
Halter materials for bridge repairs. The
kcontfActs for three reinforced concrete
}bridses were awarded to the NJ. n.
tstask company. Of Des Moines. for $11.-
a500. The lumber contract went to the
EWheeler Lumber Company. of Des
eMoines. for $s.2ss. This contract is for
1.-THE years supply.
The size Of the Individual bridges il
Pcovered by the contract awarded to
1Stask. One Of these IL q 140-foot struc-
ture. the largest Of it's kind yet to be
erected in the county. The other two
are . fifty and a seventy-foot bridge.
.lThs three comprise the number to be
fbuilt under this award.
All In Taylor Township.
Al it 20 happens all Of these bridges
are to DO built in Taylor township
The l40-foot bridge. which will be
made Of two seventy-foot spans. is to
be erected over the bayou now SPAN
ned by the second bridge on the Cen
ter street road north Of the river
bridge. The Afty-foot span Is for the
northern part Of the township. near the
Wallace H. Arney farm. The seven
ty-foot span is for over Burnett creek
on what 10 called the Wilcox road.
north OF the river and just east OF
Third avenue. There were three bid
ders, the Marsh Construction Com
pany, Des Moines; NJ. NJ. Stark Com
pany and George w. kloss, also Of that
city.
Range Of the Bids.
The Marsh Construction Company
put in two bids, the first Of $11,250 be-
ing for "fiat" top bridges. or concrete
giFder bridges. The supervisors were
not familiar with this type Of bridge.
al none has been built in the county.
and while they do not doubt that the
bridge 10 q good one they did not wish
to experiment with them In con-
tract Of this size. Their call for bids
specified arch bridges. altho each con-
tractor was to submit his own plans.
For this reason the girder type of this
bidder was rejected. altho the price
was the lowest submitted. The Marsh
compapy.s bid for arch bridges was
$14,35O. George w. Kloss bid $4,000
for the three bridges, and the bid of
the Stark company was $11.765. based
on q separate bid for each bridge. The
bid was cut to $11,5O0 for all three
bridges.
To Begin Work in Spring.
The work of building the bridges is
to begin by May Is, and all three are
to be completed by Sept. Is. The
specifications. call for a mixture Of one
part Of cement. two of sand, and three
Of crushed rock or gravel for those
parts Of the bridges above the line
from which the arches spring, and one
part Of cement, two of sand, and four
Of crushed rock or gravel below the
Inns Of the arches. The actor posts
bond for $1,000 for faithful per-
Torrance Of the work.
There were six bidders for the lum-
her contract for the year That Of the
Wheeler Lumber Company was the
lowest, it being $6,26s. The contract
calls for approximately 1s4,200 feet OF
lumber. and plank and $500 feet of
cedar. piling. Practically all of this
lumber and piling will be used to re-
pair the county's wooden bridges.