The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-05-13
Richmond Contractors Bid
Lowest in Competition for
Three Jobs Let by Works
Officials.
BOND LIKES ASPHALT
Property Owners to Deter
mine Material IJsed-City
Declares Brick Stands
Wear Best of All.

About the biggest days work trans
acted by Richmond board of public
works in several years, so far as per-
manent street improvements are con-
cerned, was done today.
Three contracts were awarded for
the paving of fifteen blocks, as fol;
lows Eleven blocks on South A
street, Fifth to Sixteenth streets
three blocks of North and South Sixth
street, from South A street to Fort
Wayne avenue. and one block of North
Fifth street, from Main to North A
streets. The contracts will all go to
Richmond contractors in the event
the property owners affected by the
improvements do not overrule the mo-
tion adopted by the board, after the
bids had been read, that all fifteen
blocks be paved with PEBBLES wirecut
brick
Cronin and Meredith. Of this city
were the lowest bidders for brick paw.
ing on Sixth street and South A street,
$1.75 a square yard in each instance,
one of the lowest bids for brick paw
ing received by the board in a long
time. F. E. Slick of this city was the
lowest bidder for brick paving on
North Fifth street His bid was s179
80 square yard, one-tenth of a cent
less than the bid entered for the i'm
provement of this street by Cronin
and Meredith.
Enters Low Bids.
The Union Asphalt Construction
company of indianapolis entered the
lowest bids on all three improvements
for asphalt paving, its bid being the
n ne
yard for one and a half inch binder
and two inch surface, and s17O a
square yard for one inch binder and
one and half inch surface
Bids for concrete paving on North
Fifth street were high because of the
double street car tracks and probably
will not be favorably considered by
the property owners Bids for con
crete paving were the lowest of any
entered to secure the contracts fol-
improving Sixth street and South A
street, Harding & Slattery of Craw
fordsville bidding lowest in each in
stance. This firm made a bid of ST. 35
per square yard for South A street
and $1.25 per square yard for Sixth
street
Six firms submitted bids for the
oOuIl a StIeel COulIdC 6lSul LOT lne
Sixth street contract and eight for the
Fifth street contract The fifteer
blocks to be paved have an area OF
about 10000 square yards and under
the bids received for brick paving
which the board has ordered. the to
tai cost will be approximately s35 900
Bond Favors Asphalt.
City Attorney Bond. who will be af
fected by the South A street improve
ment. said he favored an asphalt
street and he thought most of the 9th
er property owners also favored this
kind of paving. The board members
disagreed with him, however,
The boards investigation of the dur
ability of asphalt paving has not beer
satisfactory in the majority of cases
1t has been found that it does no,
stand up we'll under heavy traffic anG
it is quite expensive to keep it ir
proper repair. Board members are
also far from being favorably i'm
pressed with concrete paving. Not 6
concrete road put down in this city
has met with its entire approval. one
of these streets. North Tenth. nov
beginning to ravel although it ha:
been down only about two years.
Next week the board will award the
contract for the paving of clever
blocks of North A street.