The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-06-02
VIII UULOl rs 1uoII 'oS OF;
ZZ-8I-I SOUL s9qSnE
11-SI-I so
kATO PAfIIyU DlUo
PROPOSALS TAKEN OVER
FOR ONE WEEK
VARIETY OF FIGURES
Protest Is Made Against I'm
provement of Alley;
Sewer Hearing.

Bids for the paving of several
streets and alleys in Mankato were
received last night by the city coun
Gil. Taken as a whole these bids
were slightly under the estimate OF
City Engineer Phil Comstock. All
of the proposals were taken under
consideration for one week, owing
to the, fact that these are so many
phases of the proposed paving to
consider in the way Of the base, and
the different kinds Of material.
The firms bidding were: General
Contracting company, Minneapolis
Fielding & Shepley, st. Paul; T. S
Mclaughlin & Sons, Mankato;. The
Widell Company, Mankato; Schultz
Welsh company, st. Paul; Miller d
Hutchinson, Minneapolis; Lundeen
Brothers, Mankato.
Bids received for the excavation
of earth ran from IS cents to 80
cents per cubic yard. Excavation
of loose rock, from SIS to 50. SO
per cubic yard. Overhaul from .O6
cents to 90 cents, and curb and
gutter from SO cents to $1:25 cents
per lineal foot.
The bids received from the several
contracting firms wishing to do the
work of paving were as follows:
For seven and one half inch re.
inforced concrete paving, from 81. OF
to 50 As per square yard. For vi
brolithic paving, from $2.29 to $2.73
Brick paving bids ran from So. 80
to SO 81 per square yard: Asphalt
concrete paving from $40 pei
square yard to 81. 95 per square yard
with bids of 81. 40 on type B upon
the condition that the city pay the
royalties.
Bitulithic paving bids ranged from
So. SO cents per square yard to
So. 70 per square yard.
The following were the. figures
received for the paving along the
street car tracks including excaVa-
ton etc.
Earth excavation, 10 cents per
cubic yard to 81 per cubic yard.
Loose rock excavation, from 81 so
to 81 per cubic yard; overhaul, s to
g cents per cubic yard. Brick paw
ing bids along the street car tracks
ran from 81. 70 to $5.52 per square
yard.
Alley paving bids for six inch con-
crete ranged from 81 . "a to s1.95 per
SQUARE yard
Taking the bids as q whole they
were somewhat lower than tie eli !
EaueGf ESl4f1fLLst AJf lxs u ir<fa IT, IS
The hearing on the extension OF
the sanitary sewer. on Vine street
was set for June 49,
Protested Against Paving Alley.
Albert Schippel appeared again
before the council and protested
against the paving of the alley be-
tween Broad and Fourth streets On
the ground that the alley at the
present time is in good condition. 1t
will be remembered that at for
mer meeting petition signed by a
large number of interested property
owners was filed protesting against
the paving of that alley. ~
The following bills were audited
and allowed at the close of the
W. E. Alworth, s55; E. Mees, So;
Police department, $9.85; Henry
Kachelmyer, $40: Minneapolis Blue
Print company, 81. Is; L. Patterson
company, 81. so; Cities
Service company, S14 IS; Lampert
Lumber company, $3.50; Standard
OH company, 1905: Mankato Vul
canizing company. $45: City Treas
urer, S1.646. So; Cities Services com
pany, $115. 6S: Zimmerman & Ban
gerter, S48: Minnesota Pipe & Tile
company, $38.75: Mailman Brothers,
S22; Rodgers company, $31 so; Rus
sell Grader company, $12 40.