Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-29

could furnish the bid on the job Mr..
Richardson said Zone hour" and be
did The copy was then returned to
the News-Budget editor who promised
AS he did not have it ready that even
ing the copy was left with him all the
following forenoon on his promise to
get his bid in that morning He didn't
do so and the copy was sent to Mil
waul1ee The News-Budget editor S
bid finally came in after the bid from
one of the Milwaukee houses had been
received.
The News-Budget editor says that
ne figured $500 page and estimated
he book would run 125 pages. II he
id estimate 125 pages his estimate
vas entirely too high, as the book as
.,rinted contains only 1O4 pages after
everal pages had been added because
If ordinances passed by the council
,fter the original copy had been sub
lifted and bids received. The orig
inal copy submitted made consider
lbly less than 100 pages. $500 was
allowed for the extra pages and cor
rectiOns.
The News-Budget says: 1.-THE Nil
waukee house submitted a bid of
$4,000 for a book of 100 pages" 1T
did not. Neither Milwaukee house
said anything about 100 pages, or any
number of pages, and neither of them
hn n
Their instructions were for bids on
the job and not by the page as above
stated
The News-Budget says: 'Their bid
, was not lump sum at all but really
| Il bid for 1915 a page" Why wasn't
it lump sum bid? After book is
printed it is easy for one to divide the
contract price by the number of pages
and then say that it was so much a
page, as the News-Budget does.
But the NewS-Budget wishes to make
| t appear to it's readers that it figured
| $500 a page and estimated the book
would run 125 pages and hence its
| Did of $4,000, thus making it appear
| TO its readers that the News-Budget's
| bid was $500 page and the Milwau-
kee printers bid was $3.15 a page,
and therefore the News-Budget's bid
| was lower. The editor could make
his bid per page appear still lower by
saying he estimated the book would
run 80 pages and therefore his bid
of $4,000 was only $3.50 per page.
| The truth is that the News-Budget
| editor did not bid $500 page at all.
We have his bid containing his figures
and it is $4,000 for the job as lump
sum, or $3.50 a page, and according 60
| this page bid of $3.50 the job would
have cost $4,000, or $1,000 more than
| the lowest bidder.
| The News-Budget's bid for the job
was $4,000.
| Burdick Allen Dietas Co., Milwau-
kee, bid for the job was $4,000.
| Hammersmith-Ko Co., Mil
waukee. bid for the job was $4,000.
| The News-Budget was $4,000 high
er than the lowest bidder. It's bid of
| $3.50 per page makes it $1,000 higher
| than the lowest bidder. The council
| gave the NewS-B Budget the first chance
to make an estimate, and more time
than the other bidders to put in its
bid, and they accepted the lowest bid.
r. J. COON, Councilman.
GEORGE LUELL, Mayor
GEO MANLEY. Councilman.
The News-B Budget makes no claim
| that the action of the city council III
sending the job to Milwaukee was
| And we are cheerfully willing to com
mend the council. for getting anything
| the city needs at as low price as pos
sible
| BUT, what if the council had said
to the local printers Boys, we have
a price of 1915 on that job: we know
| the Milwaukee house may have an
advantage over you on that kind of a
job, and we would like to keep that
money in Ladysmith if possible. EX-
press and drayage would amount to
something. Cannot you fellows han
| die the Job for somewhere around
1915 or $320?'
| lit NEW DtllCNCS Ii Al l
would have been no more than fair
| to the local printers. If any local print
| shop could meet the Milwaukee price
| it would have been shown a nice
spirit of consideration for local indus
try had the council kept the job here
| Here are the facts:
| The News-Budget always furnished
affidavit of publication of ordinances
whenever requested by city clerk.
Affidavits were always furnished, on
ordinances published separately from
the regular council proceedings, eX-
cept possibly when overlooked through
our error. The fact remains that we
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