Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-06-15
MCPHERSON COMPANY
WILL PROBABLY GET
HEATING PLANT JOB
Wood Prices Lowest This
Year Than For Many Years
Past---Bids Given

Not only because they submitted the
lowest bid, but because all of the heat
ing plants which they have installed
in the school buildings Of Salem, have
given universal satisfaction and have
worked a considerable saving in fuel,
it is altogether probable that the W..
G. Mcpherson & Co. bid Of $2375 for
the heating plant for the new McKin-
ley school will be accepted by the board
of directors. Five bids were received
and opened by the school board last
evening and all were referred to the
building and grounds committee for
consideration and report. Bids were
also received for the next school year s
supply of wood for the several school
buildings of the district, amounting to
55j cords which were referred to the
supplies committee for consideration
and report.
The specifications for the heating
plant of the Mckinley school call for
all cast iron furnaces and they were
drafted after the recommendations of
an expert heating engineer and so
drawn as to permit any and all kinds
of competition in the bids. Five bids
were received as follows; Nelson Bros,
1896; G. n. Weaverson, $2795; j. c..
Boyer & Co., $3OOS; f. II. Berger,
$3.50; w. G. Mcpherson & Co., $2375
Although the Anderson furnace com
pany, of this city did not submit bid
Mr.. Rosebraugh, Of that company, ap-
peared before the board and voiced his
protest against the specification of all
cast iron furnaces, on the ground that
it shut his company out of the compe-
tition, inasmuch as they manufacture
an all steel furnace He further repre-.
sented that the board could not consist
entity accept the Mcpherson bid be.
cause their furnace was made of part
steel and would not comply with the
specifications. However, the bid of
Mcpherson & Company specified "in
accordance with specifications" and as
these specifications will be made a
part of the contract, if the Mcpherson
company does not feel that they can
comply with the full terms of the con.
tract it will be their privilege of re.
fusing to sign. Their certified check
accompanies the bid, however, and the
board does not believe the company
would take any chances of sacrificing
forfeiture Of the check.
Wood Exceptionally Cheap.
The opening of bids for the year s
wood supply brought out some surprises
in the nature of low bids for the differ.
ent grades of fuel offered and par.
ticularly in regard to the price of slab
wood, as a result of which the board
VIII be able to work a saving of con.
siderable amount in the annual expense
for fuel Last year the Spaulding Log
ging Company furnished slab wood at
S2.24 per cord and their bid for this
grade of wood for the ensuing year was
S2l5 per cord, Their nearest COM
petitor upon this grade of wood was
the Star Wood Company, of this city,
which Offered slab at $2.371a per cord.
second growth fir ranged from $27g
per cord to 1914, and old fir was bid
in at from S3.47 to S4.22 per cord, this
latter selling in the open market at not
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wood was offered at from $500 to $4.75
for ash and 1915 for pole oak.
Inc bids as submitted were: B. b.
uesner 30 cords pole oak, at 1878; ash,
sSll9i Star Wood Company, slabwood,
S2.37la; Salem Fuel Yards, second
growth, $3.50; old fir, $3.50; ash. 1890;
., +, Hughes, second growth, $500;
SIpaglding Logging Company, slabwood,
ss'l0i Tracey Wood Company. old fir.
$3.50; second growth 1897; +. A. Fraz.
ler' old fir, $3.47; second growth $2.97;
G.rnber, second growth fir, $S.22; old
tir, Shs2; c. A. Boiling, second growth,
$S'25; Anton Kufner, old fir. $500; i.
H. Eaton, second growth, 1929, U. G..
Lehman, second growth $3.47; f. NJ.
Vroisan, 1924; +. E. Shafer. second
growth fir, $3.50.
The district burned slabwood almost
exclusively last year. the only second
growth fir used being a few cords pur.