Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-25
COMMISSIONERS
FAIL To ACT ON
PAVING MATTER
Bid of New Mexico Con-
Struction Company Is a
509o Increase Over Last
Years Prices.

Action on paving Tijeras avenue
and East Central avenue was de-
ferred at the meeting of the city
commissioners last night with some
indication that the commission may
abandon all attempts to pave any
streets this year.
Bids of the New Mexico Con-
struction company on various types
of paving were from $3.37 to 81
with a bid of $3.50 type corre
spending to the type laid last
year.
Estimates made by the commits
sioners on the increase, taking a
50-foot lot as a basis of computa-
ton, show that paving at present
prices will cost taxpayers about 81
per cent more than was paid last
year.
Fffty-foot Lot Pays $S77.
Last year the curb and guttering
for a fifty-foot lot cost S45 on 80
cent basis. The present cost of the
same work is SIS on a Sl.50 basis.
The paving on the $390 type of
paving costs 1902. Last year at the
price of sass yard the same
work cost only S205. Last year for
paving and gutter and curbing the
owner of fifty-foot lot paid $3.50.
Under prices in the bid of the New
Mexico Construction company for
the same type of paving this year
he will pay 1877. an increase OF
$126.
Commissioner Hughes, express
ing the opinion that price of pavS
ing is due for a drop. moved that
the bids be rejected. There was no
second to the motion. William j.
Rand of Ell Paso, president of the
New Mexico Construction company,
said that in his opinion the price
of paving would not drop. Lamar
Cobb, representing the Portland
Cement Manufacturers association,
said he was not authorized to pre-
dict the trend of prices.
Commissioners Disagree.
Commissioner Connell, Ray
nolds and Swope differed with
Commissioners Hughes in his pre-
diction that prices will be lower
next year. pointing out that last
year taxpayers asked that paving
be deferred, had done so on the
same assumption.
No motion calling for action was
introduced, however, and the mat
| ter was deferred until next
Wednesday night for further con-
sideration.
The only streets remaining OF
program of eighty-five blocks out
lined recently are Tijeras avenue
from First street to Thirteenth
street and Central avenue from
High street to Mulberry street.
Mr.. Rand said that he could start
work Immediately If the contract
Is let.
Some Sample Bids.
Some types of paving submitted
In bids of the New Mexico con-
struction company, the only bidder
for the work, are as follows:
Bithulithic on five-inch concrete
base with mixture of one part ce-
ment. two parts sand and three
parts gravel, $500 a yard.
Bithulithic on concrete base or
1-2 1-2-5 mixtures, $4.
Bithulithic top of one and one
half inches on three-inch asphai'
with concrete base, $3.S7.
Six-inch reinforced concrete, OF
1928 mixture, $3.S5.
Same type as foregoing with
1-2-4 mixture, 1912.
Defer Health Question.
Clinton Anderson, secretary Oh
the New Mexico Public Health as
sociation, presented a proposition
to the commission to increase lts
health department levy three
tenths of a mill so as to raise
few hundred more dollars to
total of $4,000 By doing this
$4,000 appropriation of the Rocke-
feller foundation would become
available and a full time health de-
partment established in the city
and county.
The county has agreed to raise
$4,000 and the city previously voted
levy of 0.25 which would raise
about $500. II $1,000 can De
raised in the city and county the
Rockefeller foundation will add
$4,000. The county is unable TO
increase its levy and unless the
CITY commissioners vote the Few
hundred dollars additional, the
proposition will lapse, Anderson
said.
Action on the matter was DEFER
red until the next meeting.