The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-04
y ACCEPT BID
ON COURTHOUSE
ard by Unanimous Vote
Directs Committee to
Close Contracts.
OST WILL BE S818,474
sneral Contract Goes to Hut
err Construction Co.; Heat
ing to Racine Firm.

Assurance that Kenosha county
build proceed at once in the construc-
On Of the new court house was given
lis morning when the county board
4 Supervisors by an unanimous vote,
accepted the report Of the building
cbmmittee on bids for the new struc-
fure and also directed the committee
tn enter into contracts with the low
est responsible bidders for the work.
rhe report of the committee showed
hese lowest responsible bidders to be:
General Contract Hutter Con
struction company, Fond du Lac,
$685. 400.
Heating, Ventilating and Heat
Control-Thomas Heating COM
pany, Racine, $57,077.
Plumbing Edward j. Sullivan,
Kenosha, $4,000.
Electrisc Wiring Uhlein- Orthman
company, Milwaukee, $10,997.'
The total cost Of the building
will be $S1S,474.
The board also by an unanimous
vote adopted a motion directing the
luilding committee and the district
attorney to prepare proper resolutions
necessary to provide the bond issue
needed for the erection of the new
curt house and Jail.
Burn the Midnight Oil.
The building committee worked far
beyond midnight on Tuesday to COM
blete it's report in time to present it
the board this morning. Last com
erences with representatives Of the
Iutter Construction company and the
w. f. Kucharo and company, Des
Ioines, which companies were sifted
Tut as the two lowest bidders, conyinc-
d the committee that the Hutter bid
vas a few thousand dollars less than
he bid Of the Des Moines company.
The complete list Of bids is not
iven out for publication inasmuch as
has not yet been compiled in such a
Vay as to show what the bid would
lean when correlated with other bids.
he committee will proceed at once to
ontinue its negotiations with the bid
ers and no contracts will be signed
ntil all details have been threshed
ut satisfactorily.
Ready to Start Soon.
Representatives of the Hutter COM
any declared that they would be
.ady to start work on the structure
i the very near future. A crew of
uperintendents and foremen which
as been at work on another million
ollar building now being erected by
he company, is ready to be trans
erred to Kenosha as soon as the
Gather warrants the starting of oper-
tons. 1t is the plan of the contrac-
ors to use Kenosha labor wherever
his is possible. The contractors de-
Jared they believed the building could
ie completed probably within year.
The board by it's action demon
strated that it believed that the bids
received were fair ones and that it was
advisable to proceed at once with the
building of the new court house.
Committees Report Specific.
The report of the committee as ac-
opted by County Board today follows
% the County Board of Supervisors: :
Following the instructions of the
rd to receive bids on the new
rt house and Jail on December %,
2, your committee reports on the
sult Of the opening of bids herewith (:
4 complete list of all bids and pro-
als received and opened is sub
ted as a separate list and is not
orporated in this report on account
its length and volume.
our committee would desire to call
tr attention to the number of bids
eived, indicating that contractors
a whole are anxious to construct
ais job thereby creating good compe-
ition which your committee feels has
cen advantageous to the county.
1t has been a slow and rather diff
cult task for your committee from
ne vast number of proposals sub
lifted, to determine the low bidder
4 each class of the work entering into
ne construction of the building. How
YER, after carefully and painstakingly
onsidering all proposals submitted
nd by holding conferences with the
everal men submitting bids, the com.
'ittee has concluded that the follow.
are the lowest responsible bidders
each class of work:
General Contract-The Hutter Con.
ruction company, Fond du Lac
i95,4O0.
Heating and yentilating and Heat
ontrol-The Thomas Heating com.
any, Racine, S57077.
Plumbing-Edward Sullivan, Keno.
ha, $4,000.
Electric Wiring - Uhlein- Orthma an
ompany, Milwaukee, S10,997.
Total S818,474.O0.
Now is Time to Build.
From all information obtainable al
his time, it appears that the above