The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-12-17

City would attempt put through with determination in
their hearts to accomplish great and urgently needed result for
Price and they set out to do Mayor Wooton and members
son. John A. Mathis Peacock and Thomas Fitzgerald select
ed advisory Of prominent business of Price and
resenting different vocaons Of e to act wth hem in carrying
out this undertaking Inc advisory board thus selected co
of H. Mathis c. r. Marcusen NJ Whtmorc G. IT, Stevenson
and w A. Lowry This body decided to bond city to its limit
for the of raising for this enterprise was
done Richard Lyman and Moses Pack Of Salt Lake City
employed as consulting engineers and Jones and k Olson
as engineers for piping the Cotton Springs waters to Price The
services of Engineers Lyman and Pack considered no longer
necessary after short time and they were dispensed with
After the engineers had made the Necessary surveys and pre-
pared the plans and specifications for the construction the pipe
line bids for this work and for furnishing the material for the
advertised received on July q 1919 the
can Wood Pipe company for furnishing tile pipe the Ogden
sewer PIPE and Clay company for doing the construction work
zens of price when contract had been awarded 70 Siao zo
Raos due prejudice against their nationality In awarding
these contracts everything carefully considered Price
Cys interest foremost the those in charge The
bid submitted by the last mentioned approximately fifty thou
sand dollars less than other bidder and was the only
local bid for the entire construction wo Also learned
that of the outside bidders in sizing up the situation here
concluded that their bids would be the o complete SUBMIT
ed and other bids would be for only portions Of the work they
could get together and control the situation and thereby the
some pipe manufacturers And this is apparently what done
The bid Of Staes Geese Raos however susprse
them and their plans upset while the city saved nice
sum of money.
Construction Work and Some Public Criticism.
Actual construction work began three days after the contracts
Were AWARDED ppe shipments %eFS started snort time
fled This much delay and construction work thrown
into the year and tied through the winter The line
stalled and finally finished and turned to the city by the
tractors about October 1920 There many heavy rains
and floods for the contractors combat against and plenty
hard work in getting the pipe delivered along the high steep hill
sides but the work carried 10 completion and finished In good
shape IL Is commendable and admirable quality citizen C
take interest public enterprises and In his judgment the
pubcs money not being properly expended its work efficient
y handled STILL II those entrusted with the handling
expenditure OF the pubes eonseentousy considered
20 be grating then he viii be doing the right thing and public
benefit he protests against such proceedings and
recy and clarity the should be his duty 20 do Blu
before taking judgment he should in justice 10 those
whom he intending making attack first take the trouble
investigate Thoroughly the facts the and simply
conclusions without basis grounds for the except tn
magnatons emanang from his mind He may go 10 hi
neghbor and tell Of his conclusions and the neghbor tell tn
next and the story until II Is believed 10 be fact
In the handling of the business and In the construction
itself in connection with this pipeline there has apparently bee
much criticism and believe that many false Impressions s ur
the minds Of who have been nnocent msed by the
ments Of others IL predicted by before the pip,
laid for very Ear would not deliver the Price
that the water could not climb certain hills and soorth Ties
predictions shattered however the first waters
turned into the line and Il found TO deliver the amount ia
which designed II appears that there s VII
determined 10 give the work bak eye and apparently
DESTROYS seeing the line result IN failure The first
turned into the line in the winter Price could