The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-30
Notice to Contractors.
Street Improvement

10th day of April, 1917, at 200 p. m.
for furnishing all the materials and do
ing all the work necessary and required
to improve the following named streets
in the City of Edgerton, Wisconsin,
according to plans and specifications on
file in the office of the City Clerk of
said City for the inspection OF bidders
to-wit:
concrete paving, combined curb and
gutter and integral curb:
Main Street from the northeast line
of Fulton Street northeasterly about
1850 feet to the bridge over Saunders
Creek, pavement to be forty feet wide
from Fulton to Canal Street, thirty
feet wide from Canal Street to the
northeast line Of Rollin Street where
the latter intersects the northeast
line of Main Street, and twenty-four
feet wide from Rollin Street to the
bridge mentioned.
Rollin Street from the northwest
line of Main Street to the east line Of
Albion Street, pavement to be twen-
ty-four feet wide.
Canal Street from the westerly line
of Main Street to the easterly line Of
Henry Street, pavement to be forty
feet wide.
Rollin Street from the west line of
Mechanic Street to the east line of
Head Street, pavement to be twenty
four feet wide.
Fulton Street from the westerly
line of Burdick Street to the c. M. &
st. P. Ry. tracks, pavement to be
thirty feet wide from Burdick Street
to West Street and twenty-four feet
wide from West Street to the Railway
Tracks, including also twenty-four
foot pavement on the roadway leading
toward Head street about 140 feet west
of West Street and twenty-four foot
roadway connecting these two road
ways leaving a triangular grass plot
in the intersection.
South Main Street from the end of
the concrete pavement laid in 1916 to
the end of the full width concrete
pavement laid in 1915, this pavement
to consist of two strips of eight feet
width, one on each side of the con-
crete pavement now in place, with in
tegral curb;
The Engineers Estimate of quanti-
ties involved and on which bids will be
compared is as follows:
15,S43 square yards pavement with
integral curb, Or
1880 square yards if combined
curb and gutter is used.
1O,137 lineal feet of combined curb
and gutter if used, or integral curb.
1000 cubic yards excavation.
100 lineal feet curb.
Work shall be commenced on or be-
fore the first day of May, nineteen
hundred seventeen and the whole work
is to be completed on or before the 18th
day of July, 1917, failing in which the
contractor shall pay to the city of Ed
gerton as liquidated damages the sum
of twenty-five (S25.OO dollars per day
for each and every days delay in COM
pleting the work.
Direction to Bidders
Each bidder must accompany his bid
with contract, with not less than two
sureties who shall be freeholders of the
state of Wisconsin, and shall certify as
to their responsibilities and by their
several affidavits show they are worth
in the aggregate at least the amount of
the entire contract price, in property
by law exempt from execution.
Surety companies approved by the
Common Council will be accepted in
lieu of personal sureties.
The said contract with sureties must
be completed executed on the part of
the contractor with the exception of
the signatures on the part of the city.
This is positive requirement of the
law and must be complied with. Bids
failing to comply with the above re-
quirement will not be considered.
No bid will be considered that does
not contain price for doing the entire
work as called for in the plans and
specifications. The bids for the work
and materials on said street will be
canvassed and considered in the aggre-
gate, based on the estimated quantities.
All bid and the accompanying con-
tract must be written on the blanks
prepared by the Committee for the
purpose, and the prices should be stat
ed in writing and figures.
The contractor will be required to
accept in part payment for the said
work, certificates against the lots, and
parcels of real estate, benefited by the
improvement, or special improvement
bonds against the same, or the proceeds
of the sale of such bonds. Said certi-
ficates to be payable on demand, and
the special Improvement bonds shall be
payable in five equal annual Install
ments, shall not be general city liza
bility, and shall bear interest at the
rate of per cent per annum payable
annually.
N. B.-Blanks for proposals and
blank contracts will be furnished on ap-
plication to the City Clerk. Tie bids
when the lowest ones, will be decided
by the Street Assessment Committee.