The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06
PAVING BIDS ARE
MOST FAVORABLE
Twelve Contractors from Four States Put in
Their Bids for the Paving Work to be
Done In KenOsha.
ASPHALT PRICE IS $266 TO $3.50
Jump from $3.50 of Last Year is Held to be Most
Reasonable in the Face of the Increase in
Cement and Labor Costs.

here. Last year there were nine bid
ders for work, the largest number IN
recent years; city officials do not recall
a. time when as many as twelve con-
tractors put IN bids for the work.
Asphalt Bid Advances Little.
The paving program for the year
calls for a total of six miles on
twenty-seven streets of the city. The
choice of the type of paving has not
vet been made and it is possible that
all types will be used somewhat. Last
year the major portion of the paw
ing was asphalt and it is possible
that much of it this year will be
either asphalt or concrete.
The bids for brick paving were the
least favorable, it was stated.
"The price of cement has advanced
ten cents a BARREL" said City Engineer
Smith today regarding the bids. "Also
the price of labor has advanced over
last year and because of that we ex-
pected big jump in paving bids. We
were pleasantly surprised, especially
on the asphalt bids. Last year the
basic price was $3.50 per square yard
and this year it has advanced only
to $3.50, which is small in COMPARE
son to the jump in costs. We had
made an estimate that this price
would be at least $2.72."
Here Are the Bids.
The low bids on the various types
Of paving wanted are as follows:
Repressed Paving Brick a inch)-
Pavement $40 per SO. yard; curb and
gutter, csc per lin. foot; excavation,
6Oc per Gu. yard. James Cape & Sons
company, Racine, Wisconsin.
Vertical Fibre Brick 6 inch)-
Pavement, $3.65 per SO. yard; curb and
gutter, 9Oc per lin. foot; excavation,
69c per Gu. yard. White Construction
company Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sheet Asphalt-Pavement, 1926 to
$3.50 per SO. yard; curb and gutter,
SIC per lin. foot; excavation, 74c per
Gu. yard. H. ]. Glover & Son, Hol-
land, Michigan.
Asphaltic Concrete-Pavement, $2.37
to $3.50 per so. yard; curb and gut
ter, SIC per lin. foot; excavation, 74c
per Gu. yard. H. j. Glover & Son,
Holland, Michigan.
Reinforced Concrete Pavement,
1924 per So. yard; curb and gutter,
Use per lin. foot; excavation, Csc per
Gu. yard. Geo. M. Gross Construction
company, Appleton, Wisconsin,
Reinforced Concrete Pavement
$2.35 per So. yard; curb and gutter,
83c per lin. foot; excavation, Coo per
GU. yard. Brennan & Bounsall, Ke-
nosha, Wisconsin.
Two bidders are named on the re-
inforced concrete type because of the
fact that each of these was low on
certain parts of the proposed work
Brennan and Bounsall were the only
Kenosha contractors to make bids
on the work.
Totals Announced Later.
Clerks in the engineers office were
busy today preparing total estimates
for each street for the various kinds
of paving with the low bids as a
basis. These will be presented to
the city council at the meeting on
Monday evening.
The large number of contractors
attracted to bid on the Kenosha pro-
gram proved most interesting. One
of these was from Quincy, Illinois
another from Holland, Michigan; a
third from Minneapolis, in addition
to all of the usual bidders for work
in this section of the country. \