Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-09-12
WARREN COMPANY
GETS NEW CONTRACT
City Council Accepts Bid of Warren
Construction Company for I'm
proving District No. 15

Bids were submitted by the War
rem Construction company and the
Wilson-Bailey Construction company
for the Improvement of District No.
10, including Whitman, Spaulding
and Kamiaken streets, and the bid
OF the former, though considerably
higher than that of the Walla Walla
concern, was accepted by the coun-
Gil at its meeting last Thursday
night. The higher bid was accepted
because of the fact that the War
rem company is already located here
and in a position to rush the work
To completion before winter.
The bid of the Warren company
for excavation, estimated at about
1000 cubic yards, was 75c per cubic
yard, while the wilson Bailey COM
pany offered to do the excavation at
Coo per cubic yard. The former
company bid $40 per square yard
for bithulithic paving, approximate
ing 5000 square yards, with 3 n
inch stone base and a " inch wear
ing surface, and the Wilson Bailey
concern estimated $1.33 per square
yard on "Dollarway' paving. The
successful company offered to lay
the concrete curb cutters at soc per
lineal foot, while zoe per square
yard was the estimate of the other
company. On curbing the successful
company had considerably the best
of the argument, their bid being SAC
per lineal foot on the Appropriated
$500 feet as against bid of Acc per
lineal foot by the Walla Walla COM
pany, and catch basins were figured
at $40 and $19, the lower price be-
ing the estimate of the Warren COM
pany. On 800 feet of S-inch sewer
pipe the Warren company bid 65e
per lineal foot, while the bid of the
Wilson Bailey company was 75c per
lineal foot. On 270 square yards
Of brick hill paving the Warren COM
pany bid $50, or about $2.91 per
square yard, and the bid of the Will
son-Bailey company was 1910 per
square yard.
On water-bound bituminous ma
cadam, with which part of the dis
triet will be improved. the Warren
Construction company bid was $1.23
per square yard, as against S1.18 by
the Walla Walla company. All esti-
mates considered, the bid of the
Warren Construction company was
probably something over $500 higher
than that of the Wilson-Bailey COM
pany, but the council figures that
saving greater than that differ
ence will accrue to the city through
the completion of the Improvement
before bad weather sets in.
After the bids had been discussed
at some length the following motion,
which embdoies the specifications
for the improvements on the differ
ent streets, was passed by five to
two vote of the council, Councilmen
Nye and Haynes voting against the
motion and Councilmen Dow, San
born, Lawler, Palmerton and Sanger
favoring 1t:
THAT the bid of the Warren Con-
struction company for the improve
ment of District No. Is be accepted,
and that the intersections of Patouse
and Kamiaken streets be paved with
brick, the balance of Kamiaken
street with bithulithic macadam, and
that Whitman and Spaulding streets
be paved with light standard bithu-
lithic paving, with a * inch stone
base and 1 " Inch wearing surface,
with no guarantee"
The contract covering the Inn
provement was ordered prepared and
the successful bidder asked for and
was granted permission to begin the
work at once, with the result that
early next morning the Improvement
was under way.