Arizona republican., 1913-01-14
FOR CENTRAL
 AVENUE PAVING
Citizens Gather and Appeal for Additional Improve ment in the Way of Side walks and More Electric Lights.

Competing with two other paving construction firms. the Barber Asphalt company last evening presented q bid to the city council for the paving of North Central avenue from Monroe street to a point near Westmoreland street, including the curbing, gutters. manholes, catchbasins and incidental work. offering 10 do the work for s65, 079.42. more than $1.000 lower than the bid of the Texas Bitulithic company. with bid totalling on the approximate quantity estimate s66,097.13. Upon motion of the city council the lowest bidder received the award of the con tract and the company already installed upon the ground and prepared to go about the work almost immediately will undertake one of the largest pieces Of 1 city street paving since the present l system was selected.
 1 The bids of the three competitors. 1 which included the Barber Asphalt . Paving company, the Texas Bitulithic 1 company and Fred Osburn, of Fresno. l Cal, were submitted in detail, each 1 item being specified with unit price. 1 The approximate quantities had been ] furnished by the city engineer and the
 total figure was not mentioned in the | bids At the suggestion of Mayor 1 Christy. before an award was made a committee from the city engineers of flee. figured the cost of the estimated quantities on the until price basis and
 in that manner determined which of l ba hide 1ctn3llS- N1a tho lOu.aSf Tle meeting had been called for sev-
 en* o'clock, in order to permit the pres
 ence of City Engineer Fritz Holmquist, | who had been called to Illinois through
 the death of his father and who was l preparing to leave upon an evening
 train The opening of the bids and
 the arriving at a basis upon which to determine the identity of the lowest
 bidder required but few minutes The
 award of the bid was made in the
 usual form. a resolution being officially
 adopted awarding the work to the Bar
 Der people.
 With the awarding of the Central 1 Avenue paving contract. bids were op-
 ened for the proposed sidewalk and l curb improvements to Roosevelt street. 1 There were four bidders the Cement l Workers Concrete company, present
 ing unit prices which figured out to | show the price upon the estimated
 quantity basis was considerably under
 the nearest competitor. For the side
 walk work this concern bid at the flat ! rate of twelve cents per square foot.
 The Barber company. the highest bid der offered to do the sidewalk work for 1 fourteen cents per square foot.
 The figures of the four competitors
 carried out on the estimated quantity
 basis were: Cement Workers Concrete
 company $1.24700; Barber Asphalt company $1,497 30: M L. Vieux, s1356 7 GS and the Good Roads company of Ari- zona. $1,370.1S. 4 formal resolution : awarding the work to the Cement = Workers Concrete company was, like l that for the paving. passed unani- | mously.
 With the paving and sidewalk mat
 ters out of the way. council took up a
 l host of other business. Many citizens
 from the Central Avenue district were u present and several urged council tC n take action looking to the proper light.
 ing of that avenue. One of the suG- II gestions which seemingly met with tn.
 greatest approval was that or erectlnt
 central standard in the middle of tn,
 boulevard at uniform distances, there
 by insuring perfect lighting of thu . street without interfering from th Il shade trees which line Central avenue II Upon request of a representative o the electrical contractors the cit! . council called up for action and fna c passage the electric sign ordinanc = which has been in the process of for nation for some time. Under SuSpcu
 sion of the rules the proposed ordi
 nance was given three readings by til <. and adopted. It provides for no sign ,, 1 projecting from the front of a buildin 1 at a less distance from the sitlewall h. 1 than seven and one-half feet. Frou l., that distance up to ten feet the sig ,d may not project from the building mon ;b than one foot. From ten feet up t nj twelve feet from the walk a sign ma lv extend over the sidewalk eight feet Id from twelve to eighteen feet, the sig 10 may extend out twelve feet AbOv ,ll that height the limit drops back { q eight feet A very strict definition IFS given in the ordinance as to just wha
 constitutes an electric sign.
 an The question of paving Fourth aven 1g ue from Van Buren to Jackson street ey West Jefferson street from Fourth le Seventh avenues and Second avenu n- from Van Buren to Jackson street wa
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