Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-07-01
PURCHASEOF
LIGHT PLANT
} IS AGAIN UP
City Commissi on Is
Advised Offer tc be
Made; Bids Are OPP
ened on Sewers

Another offer is to be made soon
by the Central Power and Light
Company for the purchase OF the
eity's light plant, il was announced
by William 5. West. the company's
attorney. at Friday mornings ses-
sion Of the City Commission whicn
met for the purpose Of opening bids
on storm and sanitary sewers and 2
steam turbine genei ator for the light
plant.
Mr.. West merely appeared and
stated that new offer would be
made in the near future by his eli
ents but did not say what figures
would be bid nor just when the
proposition would be laid before the
commission.
The city was recently offered a
million dollars for the light and
water plant combined but a refusal
TO sell the water plant resulted IN
proposal being rejected. The offer
was made by subsidiary Of the
Federal Water Supply Company
through r. w. Seabury. their local
legal representative.
A previous offer Of the Central
Power a. Light Company was for an
amount in excess OF 100000 for che
light plant alone.
San Antonians Seem Low
City engineers were busy check-
ing items and totalling them in the
bids for storm and sanitary sewers
and although no final figures were
available il was judged from the
hnaders' checks that kirkwood.
Wharton & Lee of San Antonio were
low. Their check for five per cent
Of the bid was fol $1,000. Ager &
Gentry OF San Bcnito bid and turn
ed in check for $500 and the
Mckinley Construction Company 81
San Antonio turned in check Tor
$500. This last check was more
than needed. however, IL is under
stood. ]. W. Davis OF Brownsville.
bidding only on portion of the
work, turned in check for 5000.
A special meeting of the com mInis-
sion will be held at 10 o'clock next
Tuesday morning AZ which the tab
ulated bids will be considered and
contracts probably let.
Bids also weIe opened Friday On
turbines for the light plant and
these werd turned over 70 r. II. Viii
liams. superintendent Of the depart
ment of public works. for tabnla-
ton. The bidders were Smith 4
Whitney OF Dallas. A. NJ. Lockett a
I O.. Of New Orleans and the W est
inghouse Electric Company.
Fire Stations Later
Architects were not present with
plans for proposed new fire stations
and this matter u to be taken Up at
later meeting.
Hearings on paving assessments
will be held on July II, and notices
thereof are TO be published.
An ordinance governing gas fit
tings in the city was passed al t.
first reading. Ii was stated that
this ordinance. together with othcrS
on electric and plumbing fixtures,
would be printed In pamphlet form.
Application Of the Missouri Pa si.ic
for permission 20 add switch It
It's Fourteenth Street crossing was
granted in the form or an ordinance
passed at its first reading. An
other application for extension II a
switching track III the industrial
section was taken under aGvisem sn,
Extend Water Mains
Y. III. Williams was authorized TO
purchase enough six-inch water
pipes to put in loop beginning at
the corner Of Monroe and seventh
Streets, running along Seventh
Stfcct 10 and across the Town Re
SAGA to PAredes Avenue in ColsniA
Mexicana. thence along Paroles
Avenue 60 Morales or Gorilla
Streets 10 the end Of pipe placed
by the Los Ebanos Estates on Hy-
biscus Court and thence beginning
nj the intersection of Ringg1ld
Street and Palm Boulevard along 40
the boulevard 10 jefferson Street.
This pipe Is to serve the Southern
Pacific yards and shops expcced *
bc located nearby and 10 eliminate
dead end in the water line. avoid
ing an insurance penalty.
Leaves Of absence were granted 20
Mr.. Williams beginning July ard
20 Mrs. a. II. Courtney. health nurse
for the month Of July.
VI. q. Guerra. fire captain, svas
granted salary boost from sl25
month 10 $3.50 month upon the
recommendation Of Roy H. Weller
fire chief and Burt Hinkiey. FIRE
commissioner.