Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-18

ing further the difference in cost to
property owners between Trinidad and oil
asphalt. The engineer says that either
oil or Trinidad asphalt, properly LAID,
will make good pavements.
Another development in the asphalt
war was that the Marion County Con-
struction Company, the first concern to
come down to a figure the engineer con-
sidered reasonable, cut its price for per-
manent improvement with asphalt to new
low level of $296 a square yard. The
lowest price the company had submitted
previously was $301 a square yard.
When Mr. Elliott went on the war path
the average price of all contractors then
bidding on permanent improvements was
around $40 a square yard.
The Marion County Construction Com
pany's latest cut was on the permanent
Improvement Of Maple street from Nc
Carly to Morris streets. The board OF
works adopted a preliminary order for
the use Of asphalt in this improvement
ORDER FOR USE OF
BITUMLNOUS ASPHALT.
preliminary order for the use Of btu
minous concrete on the permanent i'm
provement Of Mansfield street from
made. This is the street upon which the
Mansfield Engineering Company showed
It's price cutting hand by bidding $500 a
square yard on asphalt and 1921 a square
yard on bituminous concrete. Bitumin-
Gus concrete is an asphaltic concrete ma
terlal, generally cheaper in type than as
phalt.
The board Of works itself gained a
price cutting victory. 1t has left the
asphalt war practically up TO Mr.. Elliott,
Board Members w. II. Freeman and DR..
NJ. ]. Spencer, even throwing what were
considered a number Of obstacles in his
way through their early preference for
higher priced Trinidad asphalt. DR.
Spencer and Mr.. Freeman, however, de-
cided several days ago TO DO a little
fighting for lower prices on their own
hook and rejected all bids for the re-
surfacing with wooden block Of New
Jersey street from South street to Vir-
ginia avenue. The lowest bid received
was from J. w. and w. C. Martin a
$3.50 q 1ineai foot Of property frontage
on block treated with coal tar oil and
S1419 a Ineal foot Of property front
age on block treated with distillate oil
The price a lineal foot Of half intersec-
tons on both treatments was S25.
AT the time the DOaru asked NAT. FL
lott for his opinion and he said he did
not believe the contractors could get
much lower than this figure, but that
he had no objection whatever to the
board readvertislng Mr.. Freeman said
he thought much lower figure could
be obtained, so the bids were rejected.
LOWER PRICES ON
SECOND BIDDING.
Friday the second bidding found the
Mead Construction Company pricing
wooden block treated with coal tar al
$1190 a nneal foot of property frontage
and $50 lineal foot of half intersections
and $I2.2S on property frontage and
S21S7 on intersections for block treated
with distlllate oil.
The Mead company in this bid went
500 lower a lineal foot OF property front
age and IS on block treated with Goa
tar oil than the previous low price Its
figure for block treated with distillatS
oil represents cut Of S191 a lineal foo
of property frontage and S%.l3 q Inca
foot OF half intersections.
Resolutions were adopted for perman
ent improvement Of Washington boule
ward between Fifty-First and Fifty Sixth
streets and the FIRST alley south Of Law
ton street between Olive and Draper
streets, and for cement sidewalks on the
north side Of Croft street between Shelby
street and the first alley west