The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-05-08
Alderman Curren ~.
Writes 0pea letter
tFrom Fridays Daiiy.)

| tFrom Fridays Daiiy)
| Editor Of the Times Record:
note in an article, in your paper OF
the 2Sth THE City Serves Answer in
che Trunk Sewer Suit" given as rea.
sons for my bid being rejected the
facts that, l. was a member of the City
Council and that my bid was $685., 900.
know that the reason for this ar
ticle is for the purpose Of misrepre-
senting my action in the suit between
the city and myself, and I wish space
in your paper to explain the details of
this transaction, and to state that no
gentlemen would make an assertion of
this kind il it were not for the purpose
of furthering some political ambition
or to cover up something that he had
DONE
Before receiving the plans and spec
ifications of the Trunk Sewer, re-
quested the mayor to call meeting
to consider my resignation offering
to pay the expense incurred by the
city for this special meeting. This
he would not do, and filed my resig-
nation in writing and had it delivered
to the mayor. The council proceed
ings show that he refused to have it
brought up before the council.
found in looking up the law that
as soon as my resignation reached
the mayor was no longer member
of the city council and therefore put
in my bid feeling that I was acting
justly.
l call the attention of the readers
of this article to Number u Of the
office in which it states as follows:
For furnishing all labor and material
complete for thousand feet of spiral
riveted steel pipe" On this bid
$3.50, but through an error it was
made to read $2SS for the thousand
feet. Because of the fact that the
proposal was made up for two kinds
of bids for this particular item you
could bid for the thing complete or
per lineal foot. Therefore, the words,
lineal foot were printed in the farther
end of the line, and was not scratched
out for the purpose of trying to make
my bid look ridiculous. And the au-
thor of this article tried to make it
read $2S8 per lineal foot. This would
be ridiculous to any ordinary intelli-
gent person who was inclined to be
the least bit on the square.
My total bid figured up approximate
ly $4,000 or $4,000, but owing to
the fact that was somewhat film.
famed on prices received from my
material people along those lines and
was not accustomed to their method
of bidding, was at the very least $l0,-
900 too high and today will put up a
certified check for a thousand dollars
and a bond for hundred thousand
and prove that can put in the trunk
sewer according to plans and spelifi-
cations on file at the city auditors Of
fee for $4,000. .. q:
II the proposition Of the sewer bid
comes up again and IL | am not any
buster than at the present time. my
offer will still be good. ~
Now, my kind friend who wants to
save so much money for the city and
allows some of the contractors to cut
their bids so as to prevent local man
from doing the work and keeping the
money and profits at home, what have
you to say for yourself?
Money talks and hot air heats. some
houses but you have to shovel on the
coal to keep the fire going. .~
The purpose of this letter is not to
ridicule anybody in particular but
rather to put myself right before the
people and have them know that in
starting this action now in court, I
Knew what I was doing and did not
10 it because was a disappointed
bidder.
w. J. CURREN. !
Mrs. Albert Fairbanks and little