The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-19
All Were Referred by Coun-
Gil to Waterworks Com
lmittee for Consideration
LOCAL CONTRACTORS
BID ON BUILDING
Four Hydrants Were Order.
ed Placed-Private Sewer
will be Repaired by City

shaking CRATES and oil s%eparators TO
be installed at the municipal power
station. and bids for the construction
additions to the power plant were
opened at the meeting Of the city
council last night. After discussing
the bids and the merits of water tube
and return tubular boilers the council
decided to refer all bids to the water
works committee for consideration and
for that committee to make it's report
next Monday night. City Engineer H.
G. Lykken is meeting with the COM
mittee which held its first session at
1880 this morning.
The Boiler Bids
The boiler bids are as follows:
Grand Forks Foundry G. Machine
Co.:
Return tubular boilers. .... .$2,51O.O 90
internally fired boilers. 900. 4,65O.OO
internally fired boilers with
burke n .......... 5,860.0O
Power Equipment Co. Of Mime
apolis:
return tubular boilers. 5000. 81, $50 90
Houston. Stamwood & Gamble Co..
Indiana:
Return aue boilers. So, 100. 90
Cahall Boiler Co., Chicago:
W water tube, Hurry boil
f Bsbc ;,if' & wilcox Co. cS ss; q
Sterling type boilers. erected s3,4s2.oo
& Wilcox water
William sni Sn''f Bros. .; Company. 4 &innee
Bros. type boilers. 81, 102. 90
The bids on the heaters are as fol-
lows:
Harrison Safety Boiler Works of
Philadelphia, Pa, $254.1S,
William Bros. Boiler & Manufacture
Ing company, Minneapolis, Mimi,
$4,000,
Houston, stanwood and Gamble,
Cincinnati, Ohio, $4,000.
Power Equipment company. Mime
apoiis. Mimi. s237.O0 and $267.00.
The Power Engine company of Min
neapolis, Mimi, filed a bid on the oil
separator for $3.50.
The bids on the shakers and CRATES
are as follows:
Power Equipment Co.. Minneapolis,
Mimi. $4,000.
Houston, .Stanwood & Gamble. Gin
cinati, Ohio. $4,000
Martin Crate Co. $324.00 and $3.50.
william Bros. Co., $275.00.
Local Contractors
Only local contractors filed bids for
the construction OFFS the additions to
the power house. The bids are as fol-
lows:
g. w. Buckingham & Son, Grand
Forks. $~2,670.00. II ten feet longer,
$4,000 additional.
Northern Construction company of
Grand Forks. $3.486.OO. If ten feet
longer. $405.O0 additional.
Melby & Standal, Grand Forks. $3.-
$1,000. If ten feet longer, $4O5.OO ad-
ditional.
T. Whalen was granted a petition
as dray man.
The library report for January,
February, March and April was made
and approved. The expenditures for
the period were reported at $~1.166.s5.
Receipts from the two-cent a day
books were 1926.
ton of property owners along the
private sewer from the old city hall
corner on International avenue to the
Red river that the sewer be repaired
by the city inasmuch as the city is
using the sewer. The sewer is broken
at the Red river end. The petition
was approved and that the streets
n alleys committee take charge of
this matter with the power to act.
Four hydrants were placed, at
Third street and Bruce avenue, Eighth
street and Belmont avenue, and be-
tween Fourth street and Eighth ave-
nue.. two hydrants.
The report of the city treasurer for
May was approved. There is now
$61.107.60 on hand.
The report of Police Justice Church
was approved. He collected $156 In
fees during the month Of May.
The Haggart Construction Co. of
Fargo was awarded the contract for
constructing the sewer on Oak street.