The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-08
A. A. WILSON LOW
BIDDER ON BIG JOB
Hawaii Belt Road Bids Opened
Observation-Disclosures Men
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HILO, March IA. A. Wilson was
the lowest bidder on both the belt road
contracts for which bids were opened
here at noon today. The contracts to.
be let are for about six and a half miles.
of road, in two sections. The first con.
tract is for road from Wainaku to Ho.
nom, Pankaa to PapaikOu and Haka-
iau to Honomu, all in North Hilo dis
trlct, The section is for what is known
as the Bolabola section, in the district
OF Hamakua. The contracts will be-
awarded next Thursday. -
HILO, March 5.--Next Thursday will
be the great day when the first bids for
work under the belt road commission
will be opened at noon. The bids are
Tor two separate contracts. The first
takes in three stretches of road be-
tween Wainaku and Hakalau, namely
from Wainaku to Honolii, from Paukaa
to Papaikou, and from Honomu to Ha.
kalau. The total length of these three
sections is about six and half miles
The second contract is for the recon.
struction of the Bolabola road in Ha-
makua-
A large number of contractors arc
preparing to submit bids, and it looks.
as if there would be at least half a
dozen tenders submitted, and possibly
more. Both Honolulu and local people
are interested.
Contracts Ready.
During the past couple of weeks q
number of contractors have been study
ing the plans and specifications as we'll
as the going over the ground Lord
Young, who announced long since that
they intended to submit bids on the
belt road work, will without doubt do
so. -
A. A. Wilson, the contractor who did
! creditable work for the railroad ON it's
big work between this city and Haka.
lau, will also be bidder. s-4
e. p. Chaplin, who is member of
the Honolulu Construction and Dredg-
/ ing Company, came to Hilo last week
and spent some of his time in the belt
road engineers office, making it evil
fdent that his firm is also'iA the race.
I l.. M. Whitehouse, who has done big
contracting work all over the Islands,
also arrived last week and will remain
here until the bids are opened. He
!, states that he is submitting bids.
/ George ,Mundon, who has done con-
tracing work on Kauai and at Pahoa,
will, it is stated ON good authority, also
submit a bid. He went to Honolulu
last Friday on business connected with
this matter. -
Senator John Brown, whose last big
contract was one of the Honolii SEQ
tions, win also take shot at the belt,
road work. - 1a
The Arioli brothers, who have done
so much contract work on this island,
have not got much to say on the mat.
!, ter, but it is pretty well understood
that they will enter the race. rs 5
Union May Compete. =
It is generally reported that the labor
union intends to submit a bid, and
though Leader Ewaliko denies that it
is the case, color is lent to the report
by the fact that it is well known that
President John Kealoha has been study.
ing the plans and specifications and Is
believed to be in the field. He went to
Honolulu last Friday.
1t is generally believed that the bids
will be higher than the estimates. This
is in the main due to the fact that the
cost Of labor, which must under the law
be citizen labor, Is very uncertain par
ticularly since the union was organized
land has on several occasions announced
that it would secure control of the
available citizen labor and hold out for
certain wages. The rainy weather
which is likely to make progress on the
road work almost an impossbility for
weeks at time. will probably also
tend to make the conservative con-
tractors figure on fairly large margin
Of safety when they make their bids.