The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-25
SEWER CONTRACTS Let
Contracts for Nine Miles of Sewers
and New Dispose! Plant viii
Cost a Total of $42,77O.4O.

The city council on last Thursday
evening awarded the contracts for
the construction of over nine miles
of additional sewers and a new dis
posal plant. There were thirteen
| firms who filed bids for the contracts,
some being for the contract complete
and others making separate bids on
the sewers and the disposal plant.
1.-THE council awarded the contracts
separately, the successful bidders be-
ling the George M. King Co., of Des
Moines, who secured the sewers and
sewer outlets on bids of S25,1S9.02
and $S,707.28, a total of $33 1860, J,
and the disposal plant was awarded
to the Pickus Engineering and Con
struction Co., of Sioux City, at So
S74.1O, making the total for the
three sections of $42,770.4O, and
these are. certainly good figures for
the original estimate of the city en-
gineer for the complete contracts
was in the ,neighbOrhOod of $45, ,OOO.
The city council did a wise thing
when they divided the work into
three sections, for this prevented
bidders from pooling on the contract
and the result is a saving of several
thousand dollars to the city and tax
payers.
BY the terms of the contract the
contractors are required to commence
work on or before May 1st, and the
contracts are to be completed not
later than Nov. 10Th. Both the con-
tractors announce that they will not
wait to commence work until the ex-
piration of the time limit, but expect
to commence work just as soon as
they can get tools and material on
the ground. These two big contracts
will give employment to a large
amount of labor, and the contractors
say they will give the preference to
local mendf they can be secured.
The following is a list of the bids
submitted.
VIM. F. Riley, St. Louis, Mo-, bid
on section l $2S,7S2.05, on section 3,
Sill, ,O6S.O1; total bid, $39,S50.06..
C. B. Mcnamara & Co., Dubuque,
Iowa, bid on section J., $26, 6,194.72;
on section 2 $1O,OOO.OO; On section
|3, s9,O99.4S; total bid $45,294.22.
E. M. Sheflow, Baton Rouge, La,
.(Elgin, Hi Bid on section |, $780,
31O.86; on section 3, $9,205. 65; total
bid, $35, ,516:51.
Pickus Engineering and Construc-
tion Co., Sioux City, Iowa, bid on Sec
ton 2, $S,S74.10.
Offerman Construction Co., South
Omaha Neb. (. bid on cctfon A. 81 va =
i22I,25 section ~ 4;
section 81, IS s,923.15; total bid 81 =
'223.40.
J. w. Turner Improvement Co..
lDes Moines, Iowa; bid on section |,
S2S,47O.19; on section 2, $10,994.00;
on section 8, $9,693.44; total bid,
$49,157.63.
George NJ. King, Des Moines, Iowa,
bid on section 1, s25,1s9.O2; bid on
section 8, ss,7o7.2s; total bid $3S,-
5000.
Henry Rees, Quincy, Illinois, bid
on section 1, $26,729.OS; on section
8, S9,767.36; total bid $36,496.44.
Adams, Martin Construction Co..,
Centeryille, Iowa, bid on section l,
$29,S7O.S6; on section 2, $11,224.0O;
section 8, s10,343.34; total bid, $51,-
43S2O.
o. P. Herrick, Des Moines, Iowa,
bid on section 1, $33,794.42; sec
ton $9,6s3.42; total bid, $43,777.-
"a. @
Dearborn Construction Co.. water
loo, Iowa, bid on section |, 27,736:-
o6; section 2, $10,977.26; section 3,
s9,671.OS; total bid. $4S,SS4.7o.
NJ. Tschirgi. Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
bid on section 2, Sill 10000; on sec
ton g, $S,S41.4S; total bid, $2O,-
35O.4S
The city bought two acres of Chas.
Bechtel on which to put the sewer
age disposal plant, paying $4,000
for the land.