Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-17
CONSIDERS BIDS
FOR new STATE
MILL MATERIAL
Much Lower Prices Quoted
Than Those of Bids Sub
mitted In 1920

Inc structural anu COuChS'S 49,
on the state mill and elevator at
Grand Forks will be completed IN
September of. this year, unless unex-
pected deterrents prevent, in the
opinion of H. G. Lykken. of Charles
Pillsbury & Co., consulting engineers
of the Industrial commission, and r.
l.. Hague. engineer for the Feagles
Construction company. which is oolns
n large part Of the work on the n1.I.
Mr.. Lykken and Mr.. Hague were IN
the state for the acceptance or plos
on a number of different jobs OF ma
chinery to go in the mill and
Both engineers, in answer to a
query as to whether the projects
would be completed in time to receive
wheat Of this years crop, expressed
the opinion that it would. The force
of men, they said, had been Increased
MS fast as possible until there are
about $50 employed.
Contracts will be made by the in
dustrial commission for the various
Jobs of machinery for which bids were
submitted at prices greatly below
prices submitted when bids were
) taken on the items in October, No
!. vcmber and December, 1920. The
70 largest contracts. however. were let
by the Nonpartisan league lndustraal
commission during the period OF ex-
If0OTO11dEy ll6I piASSo
the war. Had the commission
aadelayed awarding those contracts un-
vtil they were assured the mill could
y be completed at a speclfled tlme d
great saving would hav resulted.
Many Seek Contracts.
Bic. were under consideration at
Bismarck Tuesday by the industrial
commission TOR the following:
Motors for Observation-Disclosures
mers Mfg. Co., Fairbanks Morse Co.,
General Electric Co., Western Electric
Co., Westinghouse Electric and Ma
chinery Co., Ideal Electric CO. Range
of prices, $4,000 to $4,000.
Power house switchboard - AIMS
Chalmers Mfg. Co.. Baustead Electric
and Mfg. Co., General Electric Co..
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Co., Northwestern Electric
EQUIPMENT Co., Western Electric co:
Range Of prices. $7.S72 to $12,125:
Dust collecting system-The Day
Co., Minneapolis Sheet Metal Works,
Cyclone Blow Pipe Co.. Strong-Scott
Co. Range of prices, 1885 to $lo'-
Rubber belting-U. S. Rubber Co,
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., ". S.
Knott Co.. Plant Rubber Co.. Repub-
lie Rubber Co., Manhattan Rubber
co.-Range. of PRICES, s1s,as7 to
I1a QlO t.I
Grain dryers-strong : Scott Co.,
Ellis Dryer Co.. Hess Heating and
Ventilating Co.. Range of prices,
$13,5O0 to $4,000.
Elevating and conveying machinery
. Weller Mfg. Co., Webster Mfg. Co.,
Strong-Scott Co., Stevens-Adamson
Co. Range of prices, $SS5,S5s to
$4,000. III
Sheet metal work = Mcdonald
Bros. Winnipeg. IS cents per pound
Installed; Strong Scott Co, Min
neapolis, IS IA cents per pound in
stalled. The total contract is $4,000
to $4,000.
Freight Observation-Disclosures Ele
vator Repairing and Supply Co.. Oti
Elevator Co.. Graves Elevator Co
Range of pEices. $s,400 to 1858.
HtBids were received in 1920 for al
ftans except sheet metal work. TIL
bids under consideration today rcf1ec
the following savings over the previ
GUS BIDS on estimates of engineers
Betting. $40, 900; Dust collecting sys
tenn. 5000; elevator and .conveyin,
machinery. $40. 900; motors. $4,000 tt
$4,000. The estimated reduction il
sheet metal bids is IS per cent.
The above contracts. engineers said
are the lastFof any size to be awardc'
for completion of the mill and ele
Evator.