The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-08-27
W. |. GeiSt
Awarded Contract
FOR IMPROVING THE WATER SYSTEM
Milwaukee Lumber Company Submits Proposition
For Free Pumping Station

it tputiOCi iOl ilQhlnE llt
contemplated improvements to
the water system was awarded to
w. l.. Geist by the city council at
its meeting Tuesday evening. The
bids which had been submitted
had been referred to the water
committee and the city engineer
and the mayor and when the
council met the report of the
committee was read. 1t gave
the three lowest bids as follows:
Security Bridge Co., 29095
w. l.. Geist 29tO5
Carlson, Schridel and Anderson
29300.
The committee made no recon-
mendation but left the matter
up to the council. Councilman
Bunt made a motion that the con-
tract be awarded to w. l.. Geist
which was seconded. Mayor
HALEY stated the motion and ask
ed if there were any remarks.
After waiting a time and no one
saying anything the representa-
tive of the Security Bridge Co.
asked the mayor'if an outsider
would be allowed to say anything.
The mayor replied he would be
permitted to unless there were
objections and there being none
the representative addressed the
council.
He stated that he was the low
est bidder and that although he
acknowledged the right Of the
council to let the contract to
whoever it chose and that sym
pathy for the local bidder was a
big factor, still he thought that
outside bidders should be treated
fairly The call for bids had
stated that the contract would be
let to the lowest responsible bid
der and he would have no dim
Guilty in proving to the council
that his company was RESPONSE
Bile. He recognized the fact thai
under the reservation of the righI
to reject any or all bids the coun-
ell could reject the lowest bic
and give the contract to a high
er bidder but appealed to thu
council to be fair in the matter
Mr.. Bunt's motion was theI
adopted.
Mr.. Geist thanked the cohnci
for giving him the contract an,
stated that he would try and d
the work in such a manner tha
all would be satisfied and hope,
that when the job was complete,
the work would 6e done so salts
factorily that it would not leav
a bad taste in the mouths of any
not even of the newspaper report
er who had in the last issue Op
posed the granting of the contrac
to him.
A motion to adjourn was mad
but Councilman Hanscom aros
and said that he had a matte
which he wished to bring beiol
i the council He stated that ;
, a previous meeting the counc
= had voted to purchase a site fo
a pumping plant from Truema
& Wnuderlick, the site to be sc
lected by the city engineer frol
several offered. That after
wards it was found that sew,
: emptied into the river ten or I'll
! teen rods above any Of these sit,
and he understood that the Gil
i contemplated going farther u
B, and buying a site from 9th,
2 parties.
n He said that there had bee
T. some objection to the propositic
n made by Mr.. Herrick because h
= ohnr was not made i'm writing III
g thai he now had a proposition
{ writing from the Milwaukee Lun
ber company giving the city
= free pumping station which
d would like TO have the clerk rea
D. He also had easements giving {
e city free right of way for
% pipe line from the pumping ST
e ton to the pipe line on FIJI
y street. The clerk read the pro
Is ,osition which was as follows
IS ITO the Honorable Mayor a
City Council of the City of