The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-02-21
Notice to Contractors
STREET IMPROVEMENT
Office of Street Assessment
Committee

the office of the City Clerk until the
Goth day of March, 1919, at three
p. m. for the furnishing of all ma
terials and doing all the work ne
cessary and required to improve
the following named streets in the
City of Edgerton, Wisconsin,, accord
ing to the plans and specifications as
prepared by w. F. Reichardt, Engin-
eer, and on file in the office of the
City Clerk for the inspection of bid
ders to-wit:
Bids will be received on Reinforced
Concrete and Asphalt Concrete paw
ing, combined curb and gutter inle-
grail curb;
That part of Swift Street from
Rollin Street to the bridge over
Saunders Creek, and that part of Al
bion Road from the bridge over
Saunders Creek to the West Property
Line of Doty Street. The said pave
ment on Swift Street to be thirty
(3O) feet wide between curbs, from
Rollin Street to the Northeast pro-
perry line of Jensen Street, and be-
ginning at the Northeast property
line of Jensen Street the width OF
said pavement will be narrowed until
same is twenty coy feet wide be-
tween curbs at the bridge over Saun-
ders Creek; and the said pavement
ON Albion Road shall be at point
within twenty-five feet of the bridge
over Saunders Creek, twenty -four
(24) feet wide between curbs, and
continue at this same width to the
West properly line of Doty Street;
The Engineers Estimate OF quanti-
ties involved and on which bids will
be compared is as follows:
| 3,897.9 Square Yards Pavement
with Integral Curb
1880 Lineal Feet of Curb or Com
bined Curb and Gutter
10000 Cubic Yards Excavation
| Work shall be commenced on or
before the first day of May, 1919,
and the whole work completed on or
before the first day of November
1919, failing in which the contractor
shall pay to the city of Edgerton as
| liquidated damages the sum of TWEEN
| ty-fve dollars per day for each and
every days delay in completing the
work.
Direction to Bidders
| Each bidder must accompany his
bid with a contract with not less than
two sureties who shall be free hold
ers of the state of Wisconsin, and
shall certify as to their responsible
ties and by their several affidavits
show they are worth in the aggre-
gate at least the amount of the en-
tire 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 completely executed on the
part Of the contractor, with the ex-
ception of the signatures on the part
Of the city. THIS IS A POSITIVE
REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW
AND MUST BE COMPLIED WITH.
BIDS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH
THE ABOVE REQUIREMENT WILL
NOT BE CONSIDERED.
| No bid will be considered that does
not contain a price for doing the en-
tire work as called for in the plans
and specifications. The bids for the
work and materials will be canvass
ed and considered in the aggregate,
based on the above estimated quanti-
| ties.
All bids and the accompanying con-
tract must be written on the blanks
prepared by the committee for the
purpose, and the prices should be
stated in writing and in figures.
The contractor will be required 20
accept in part payment for the said
work the certificates against the lots,
and parcels of real estate, benefited
by the improvement, or special i'm
provement bonds against the same, or
! the proceed Of the sale of such bonds.
Said certificates to be payable on de-
mand, and the special Improvement
bonds shall be payable in five equal
annual insta,lments, SHALL NOT
BE A GENERAL CITY LIABILITY,
and shall bear interest at the rate of
six (6) per cent per annur payable
annually.
| N. B. Blanks for proposals and
blank contracts will be furnished on
application to the City Clerk Tie
bids when the lowest ones, will be
decided by the Street Assessment
| Committee.