Evening times-Republican., 1916-05-25
WESTERN CONSTRUCTION COM.
PANY GETS ss1,sss PAVING JOB
ON ROADS AND STREETS.
WILL REoiN WORK ~ #o
WITHIN TWO WEEKS
3s0eesssfut Bidder Employs Local, Con.
tractor 20 start Laying Curb at
onos-aravsi 70 b. Used For cearss
insesdlsrt and Will 30 Shipped
Hers Fran Distance. =. s@

The contract for 10000 square yards
! Of concrete pavement and 1910 square
yards Of brick pavement and curbing
for all streets paved was let to the
Western CONSTRUCTION Company, of
Sioux City, by the city council this
forenoon. On the estimated yardage
the successful bid will total $91,33s.
Work is to begin by June 10 and be
completed by Oct. Is. The contractor
posts a $4,000 bond for faithful per-
fornance and incurs a penalty Of SIS
a day for failure to complete the work
within the specified time The con-
tract covers South Ninth and Doty
streets, District No. / of the main
road projects. and East Main and
South Twelfth avenue, District No. 2
Of the main road projects. also a long
list Of streets comprising two and
one-half miles. ,~
Subdivided Into Sections.
The bid Of the Western Construction
Company was: Sixteen foot concrete
pavement, $1.z65s; other concrete
pavement, $1.2sh; brick pavement,
1923; curb 80 cents foot; extra grad
ing, 40 cents a cubic yard; three-inch
oak plank. IS cents a foot. These bids
were the. lowest Of all, excepting for
brick pavement and curbing.
For the convenience Of acceptance
and so the contractor can get the paw
ing certificates and his money from
time to time as work progresses, the
job was divided into seven sections.
The. work will be finished and ac-
cepted by sections, and plats and
schedules for assessments will be pre-
pared one section at time, Z
Division by Sections.
Under this division the following
will be the sections:
Highway. -.s 4 i
2-District No. 2, east on Lincoln
Highway.
3-North Third avenue and Webster
street. ,- >I1,4-JLIhl19 -. +
Fremont. North Eighth and Sum-
NIT streets.
5-west State and North Ninth
streets. ... r, r,
s-North Fourth, Fifth and Hughes
streets. -
South First and South Tenth and
Railroad street and South Fourth and
4tf
\ Carlson EkosLay c4rbins. Z
The westsrns CONSTRUCTION Company
has employed Adolph Carlson, local
cotractor. to lay, the curbing. Work
on this will. begin at once to keep
ahead Of the paving. -
A representative Of the Western
CONSTRUCTION Company said this fore
noon that the paving gang would be
at work before June 10. He expects
to use Iowa gravel for the coarse In
gredient, but It. rwll be shipped IN
perhaps from as far' distant as Mason
CITY. Gravel will be used exclusively
II It can be procured, in sufficient
quantities. It win be moved from car
to lob on trains Of motor trucks.
Operate In Large Way. D.
II is promised that the city will 8be
given an exhibition Of laying pave
mont on q large and rapid scale. With
good weather the contractor promises
1900 to 1000 yards q week.
Taxpayers will be interested In
Knowing that the Western Construc-
tion Company has laid more than
200, 900 yards Of one-mix concrete
pavement In Sioux City, which Is re-
puted to have some OF the best pave
ment Of the kind in the country. In.
cluded in the work the contractor has
d.,e there, is the road to Correction
vile, which was built under the same
law on which the main roads here are
to be paved. In fact It was for this
spectal purpose that tSiDux City men
got the general assembly to pass the
law. IF 81 * t