The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-22

the way the first installation OF de La Vergne engine
and pump that tried was away back when the city
built the pumping plant at the river and laid the pipe
line from the river to twon The Oasis" presents
in the following paragraphs:
At that time as at all times, Roy & Titcomb
represented upon the board One of the employees of
the house was councilman, and one OF the First
National Bank encourage another. Several more
of the councilmen with leanings toward the COM
binatiOn although there were some who were not.
Roy & Titcomb were" requestedby the council to sub
nit estimates for water plant, including pump and
power at the river and pipe line to connect with the
already existing system in town which the municipal
ity had bought from the Nogales Water Company.
In due due time IT, Il Tt"oI.b acceded to the ere
quest" and they submitted an estimate with specif
cations, drawings, etc. 1t very elaborate set
of plans specifications and estimates. The board
took them under Amusement: and they were locked
away in a vault iii the court house, where the coun-
Gil then held it's meetings. 1t went along some weeks
without anything further being done Then the Roy
& '.ltcomb men on the board commenced horsing
about letting contract to that firm upon those es-
Inmates There came meeting of the board, and
the matter brought up for consideration Just
at that uncture Mr. Harry j. Harms hurried into the
Council Chamber breathess and asked if it was two
late for him to submit bid One of Roy q Fit
comb the board opined it was; but councilman
ARGUS Reddoch opined it was not. The result was
that Mr. Harms permitted to submit his bid. and
been very similar to those of Roy 4 TitcOmb which
had been SO securely locked in court house vault
But Harms price was some $3 900 less than the esti
mate of Roy & Titcomb. Harms was given the con-
tract he carried out and he made money it. Yet
but for Harms getting under them in the way he did
Roy & Ttcomb would have probably been given a
contract under their own estimate at price all Of
$4,000 hghr than what Harms took the contract for.
Probably that would have been another case that Mr.
Titcomb described in recent interview as giving
the city the courtesy of wholesale prices" And now
it pertinent question as to whether the pump and
de la Vergne engine added to the municipal
water plant in the former administration Of Mayor
Clagett was not another of letting contract up
a requested estimate? Under the Harms con-
tract the city saved $4,000 or thereabout over the
Roy & Titcomb estimate Then if Roy & Titcomb
had secured the contract at the price set forth their
estimate that firm would have made the same profit
that Harms made, plus some $4,000. How much of
the increased debt that the city incurred during the
administration of Mayor Clagett went into the cof-
fers of Roy & Titcomb? That is how much more
than Harms would have done the Job for? And whv
did not Harms try to get under the price paid for the
second unit installed he did under the first unit?
For some time after that contract there was consid-
cradle hostility between Harms and the Roy & Tit
comb bunch When did it cease and how? Mr..
Harms is on the ticket that is supported bv Row e.
Titcomb now
Dollar for Dollar value is offered the tax
payers of the city.
All will receive square deal
Factionalism will be driven from city affairs
Political affiliations will not be considered"
Was dollar FOR Dollar value offered the taxpay-
ers" when Roy 4 Titcomb Submitted an estimate"
for water liant that was $4,000 higher than the
cost RI the one that was put in? Was Dollar for
Dollar offered the taxpayers in the demand paid to
Roy Titcomb for electric light sundries, published
recently in these columns which several dealers in the
same commodities assured they would have supplied
for several dollars less? And probably there are
on file in the archives of the city many more such de-
mands paid Roy & Titcomb for commodities the city
could have purchased from other dealers for less
money. -
"Al will receive square DEAL" Did the Marsh
corporation receive square deal when the town coun
I'll OF Nogales Urged the railway company to te1min
ate the Marsh lease of railroad ground proceeding
which would have forced that concern to move into
less eligible location. -
"Factionalism will be driven from city affairs"