The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-07-04
PIPELINE CONTRACT IS LET
FROM THIS CITY TO COTTON
-Four Concerns Participate In Furnishing
Materials For Construction and
Necessary Labor

Mayor George 4. Woolton. mem.
bcrs of the city council aud the ad-
yisory committee to the council met
last Saturday evening Ia open and
|. consider bids On the pipeline from
, Price to Cotton, proposals for mater
} inls aud also the labor connected with
the installation of the same. Such
was the number of bidders present
that the council chamber was found
insrliicicn; to accommodate the big
crowd aud adjournment was taken Ia
the district court room. Bids we're
there opened. but they were ~ numer.
) Gus aud complicated that adjourn.
) mcnt was taken tn last Monday even
ing. In the meantime the consulting
engineers, Richard u. Lyman aud
Mu,hrr Pack. aud The constructing
engineers, Jones a Olson. had iahd.
lated the several proposals.
! Present Monday c,cning were all
mcmbrr, of the council except Thomas
Fitzgerald and ol The advisory com.
niiticr e. " Stevenson. &. u. Nor.
cuscn aud j. VI Whiimorc. -Four
firms were given the contract for the
materials entering into aud the labor
and construction of the pipeline FROM
Price 90 Cotton. Grurrc A. Lowe
company at Ogden will furnish the
steel ut o. figure estimated ni ss5n.OO.
American W"ndpipo company Ut ia.
coma, Wash. gets the wood stayc
pipe ut f7l,l3JoO aud Burton Lum.
her company the redwood lipc NJ
about thousand dollars. Ogden
Sewer Pipe and Clay company furn-
ishcs the tile pipe ON u hid of ST.
g52.l6 In all there arr some ten
miles of the latter aud fifteen miles
Of the wood. The steel amounts Ia
but few hundred feet.
Two Bids On Labor.
! There were but two bids Ia for the
labor, that of Fuller & Zupnn Of Salt
Lake City being for FiG.2iSOO, which
was for The trench work alone aud
did not include bnckiilling. ruckwurk
and numerous other things thnt it
was estimated would cost from ~.
teen 10 perhaps thirty thousand dol,
lnm more. The contract went 10
Stylinn Stncs. George Zccsa aud An.
grlo Raikos for al ,bgjl2 fur the
complete job, They trench three feet
from Price 10 Helper aud two aud u
half feet from Helper Ia the source
Of supply, backfill and do u complete
job under the supervision of the city
engineers. Their bid is considered, ~
previously stated, several thousand
dollars below their competition. The
bid WIS accompanied by liberty bonds
In the amount Of . per cent of the pro-
posal.
These figures place the cost of the
system at SlsO,67l5I, but the local
engineers say 10 be safe II had best be
figured AT $4,000, while several of
the councilmen aud advisory commit
tee speak in terms Of two hundred
thousand dollars. The city has cash
available from bonds aud premium
thereon To meet sl74,73l, leaving u
deficit of some sixteen thousand dol
lars. This or the difference between
the cost and two hundred thousand
will be- easily raised The banks of
the city have tacitly agreed that they
will supply the additional funds that
may be required, the city giving them
/ Is notes for what Is needed Ia COM
plete the system. Judge Woods, city
attorney was instructed Ia draw the
contracts with the successful bidders
For Complete System.
Ferret q Christopherson of Salt
Lake City had a bid in for the com
plete job for s2OO,O00. another for
100000 and the third for 100000.
These were based on as many differ
nt clauses of materials. Wheel.
wright Construction company of Oe-
den submitted a bid as called for un-
der the specification at S2lS,bs5. Rep
/ esentatiyes of the Tacoma, Wash,
concern we're present when contract
was awarded that concern and stated
- the council that shipments Of pipe
could be started within three days ~
desired, aud the whole contract filled
within thirty days. Their materials
come by freight prepaid TO Cotton or
Price. The labor contractors promise
big gangs Of men at once, while the
steel sellers will not delay in the
Il least. Work ought 10 be well under
way on the trenehing inside Of ten
days
IL is proposed by the council and
the advisory committee TO begin work
at the Price end Of the line immedi-
ately and 10 rush it TO finish TO some
point up above Cameron. Here water
will be turned into the line as com
pleted that far, which will be the
source Of supply until the Cotton