The Parker post., 1915-11-06
YUMA WANTS
ALL FUNDS
ACCEPTS BID IN EXCESS OF $780,
ooo OVER ENGINEERS, EsTI-
MATE-lNJuNcTIoN SUIT HAS
BEEN BROUGHT.

bid by the board of supervisors for
the construction of the first unit of
the county highways. 1t appears that
the Warrenite bid exceeded the bid
of Mesmer & Rice by about $50 900,
/ which amount was also in excess of
the estimates of the county engin-
| GERS. But two members of the board
wanted this extra amount put into
(, Yuma valley roads, and despite an
earnest plea by Supervisor Proebstel,
the board accepted the bid BY adding
| $780, 600 to the Yuma valley roads it
will mean that northern Yuma coun-
ty will not get a cent for good roads
The Yuma Sun, in reporting the
proceedings of the stormy meeting,
says, in part:
/ mo sooner had the vote been an
nounced than County Engineer C. M
Hindman and Consulting Engineer w.
G. Hunter spontaneously arose and
/ rendered their designations. The
board did not accept the same, how
ever, and Supervisor Proebstel pro-
ceeded to make his position clear in
a vein which could not be misunder-
stood. He said the acceptance of the
Warrenite bid meant that the county
would have to pay for the valley
roads $31 900 more than concrete
roads would cost, and that such pay
ment would rob the west roads of the
amount which the people had voted
should be appropriated for them He
also said the county had gone to
enormous expense in employing a con
sulting engineer and preparing plans
and specifications which would CON
form to the appropriation of $685.
600, which was made for the valley
roads, and also build the west and
north roads in accord with the ex-
pressed desire Of the people, and with
the action ofsthe board in making the
apportionments. He said he thought
| it was an outrageous proposition for
1
/ work Of acknowledgement and the
consulting engineer to be thus upset
and all the money spent wasted at
the eleventh hour by the acceptance
Of a bid which, according to the en-
gineers employed by the county to
furnish estimates, to meet the vari-
| ono annronria+ionc world ooc+ tho
county $1,S32 more. per mile than the
cost OF concrete roads on the bid of
Mesmer & Rice. He said he was in
favor of keeping faith with the peo-
pie who voted the money for road
construction with the belief that it
would be equitably distributed in diff
ferent portions of the county, accord
ing to the plans and specifications of
engineers employed to carry out their
desires. .
injunction Holds up Contract.
Alleging that the letting of a con-
tract to the o. & C. Construction
company for the surfacing of the
YumaSomerton road with Warrenite
would work serious injury to himself
personally and to Yuma county in
general, e. G. Caruthers, president of
The First National Bank of Yuma,
Monday filed injunction proceedings
against the board OF supervisors, Civ
ing bond in the sum of $4,000 sign
ed byhimself, f. e. Elliott and j r.
Henry The paper was prepared by
G. A. Linderman, attorney for the pc
titioners, and filed in the afternoon
while the board was insession, and
before any further action could be
taken in the direction of making a
contract. Judge Baxter granted tenn
porary restraining order which was
served on each member Of the board
personally. thereby preventing them
from taking any further steps until
hearing can be had with reference
to making the order permanent, the
date for which was fixed on Novem-
ber IL at ten O'Clock a. M
Inc SUIT is the result OF the action
Of the board last week in voting to
reject all concrete bids and accept
the bids of the Warranite people, at
what the petition alleges to be a
greatly higher price than was bid by
the Mesmer & Rice company after the
publication of plans and specifications
had been adopted by the board for
the construction of concrete roads.
The restraining order cites the de-
PENDANTS, the board of supervisors,
to appear at the date mentioned and
show cause why a permanent injunc-
ton should not be granted