The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21
Notice to Contractors.
STREET IMPROVEMENT


Office of the Street Assessment Com
mittee of the City of Edgerton, Wis.
April 10, 1916.
Sealed proposals will be received at
this office until the oath day of May,
1915, at II o'clock noon, for furnishing
all material, except as noted in the
specifications for the proposed work,
and doing all the work necessary and
required to improve South Main street,
from the city limits northerly ap
proximately eighty 500 rods to the
established grade by grading the road
way thereof and constructing thereon
concrete pavement according to the
plan, profile, details and specifications
thereof on file in the Office of the city
clerk and there open for the inspection
of bidders, and to which for further in
formation reference is hereby made.
The whole work must be completed
on or before the 1st day of September,
1915, failing in which the contractor
must pay to the City of Edgerton, as
liquidated damages, the sum of ten
$4,000 dollars per day for each and
every days delay in completing said
work after the said 1st day of Sep
TENDER, 1915.
The committee has caused to be pre-
pared printed copies of the specifica-
tons and forms of contract, proposal
and bond. Such copies and forms will
be furnished to the persons desiring to
bid on application therefor at the Of
flee of the city clerk.
The committee will not consider any
bid unless accompanied by contract
with sureties, as prescribed in the form
furnished completed with the excep-
ton of the signatures on the part OF
the city.
Each contract must be accompanied
by bond in a penal sum amounting to
the contract price and executed by the
bidder and by sureties, each Of whom
shall justify as to their responsibility
and by their several affidavits show
that they are worth in the aggregate
at least the amount mentioned in the
contract in property not by law ex-
empt from execution.
Surety companies duly licensed to do
business in the state of Wisconsin will
be accepted in lieu of personal sureties.
Each bid must contain prices for do
ing the entire work on said street as
called for in the plan, profile, details
and specifications above mentioned.
Prices should be stated in figures and
writing.
The bidder must be prepared, at the
time the bids are opened, to present
satisfactory evidence to the committee
that he is fully prepared with the nee
essary capital, materials and machin-
cry to conduct the work to be con-
tracted for and that he willsfurnish the
necessary plant and be ready to oper-
ate and lay the pavement within thirty
days after the letting of the contract;
that he will employ skilled and exper-
fenced workmen who have been en-
gagged in laying concrete pavements.
Companies or firms bidding for the
work must state in the proposals the
individual names and places Of resi-
dence of the persons comprising, or Of
fcers of, such company or firm.
Bids failing to comply with the above
requirements will not be considered.
Bids for the work and materials will
be canvassed and considered in the ag-
gregate, based on the estimated guam
titles named in the specifications
The right to reject any and all bids
is reserved.
Signed: o. j. JENSON,
J. o. ARTHUR,
A. E.. SKINNER,
Street Assessment Committee.
First publication April %, 1915