Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-23
HIGHWAY COMMISSION MEETS AND LET
 CONTRACTS
Only One Bid Submitted on
 Grading Work; s. J. John son Secures Work on Sec ton From Forrest Station

The Cochise County Highway com mission met yesterday at their office in the Barnaby building and disposed of considerable business. Those pres ent were Pres. J. J. Bowden, Secy. A. .H. Gardner of Tombstone and Harry Clark of Douglas.
 The board opened the bids for the
 lg of the road between this city ;rd .c1uglas. There was but one bid ( .Iitted, that of S. J. Johnson, which
 O., TOT the grading of what is called section three of the road between For rest station on the E. r. & s. w. and the city limits of Douglas. His bid was for 2I cents a yard. There were no bids submitted for the grading of tile ether 5ecctiORs from Bisbee to the Forrest ranch and from there to Forrest station. There were a number of contractors resent but they submitted no bids They stated that at the present time they were unable to submit bids on account of the scarcity of labor and that it was doubtful il it could be brought from Mexico. It is expected that Mir Johnson will com mence work on his section of the road next week as he has his outfit now in this district
 There were no bids submitted for the installing of the culverts on eoth1r of the sections of the road.
 The bid of the Western Metallic Manufacturing company, which makes the Armoc culverts was accepted for the furnishing of carload lot of cul- yerts. These will be used in the build ing of the sectciOn from Douglas to Forrest station and also for a part oi the road from there to Forrest ranch. By buying in the carload lots the com mission was able to save consider able.
 The bids for furnishing of the ce- ment to be used in the installing of the culverts brought out five bids. The bid of the Phelps Dodge cor poration was the lowest of the five. Theirabid was $3.77 at Douglas and s3.96 at Forrest station or at Lowell one feature of the bid that means con siderable is the fact that the com mission will be able to get the cement as they need it, whereas, if the had purchased it from any of the other bid ders they would have had to purchase ii in carload lots and it would have been necessary for them to have built a warehouse to store it along the road.
 The commission will meet again on Julv 6 at which time they will re ceiVe bids for the installing of the culverts on the section to be graded bv MT. Johnson. On July 26 they will meet for the purpose of opening bids for the grading of the remaining sec tfons. Advertisements for al this work will be- printed .nextsweek. The commissioners are of the opinion that bv the 26th O. next month that some of the contractors will be in condition to make bid on the work.
 The commission will ask the board of supervisors to fix the road between Forrest station and the Central school house so that it can be used while the road is being graded from Douglas to Forrest station. The road is now in fairly good shape and with the present rain fall on it and good dragging it can be placed in shape m a short time From the Central school the travel can take the Central High | way into Douglas. The road will be about six miles longer but it will be- come a necessity on account of there being no other route when the grading is started.
 Supervisor John Rock of Tombstone | was in the city last evening and when i asked about the matter stated that he I was willing that the road be fixed at l once and that he would act with his | fellow members on the matter as soon as 6ossible. There is now road gang | working on the Forrest-Gleeson road that could be put 10 work on the road to the valley in snort notice.
 The work of the Highway commis- sion has just started and they pro pose to keep the good work going and will let contracts in all sections | of the county as soon as the engl- ! ueers have completed the data.