The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
HIBBING FIRM
GETS CON TRACT
Council Awards Water Tower
Painting and Repairing on
Bid of ST, 999.40.

Rice & Morrissey, Hibbing, were
awarded the contract to paint and re-
pair the water tank on bid of ST.
9s9.4o by the city council Tuesday eve
ming.
Members of the firm, present at the
meeting, informed the Miner that they
expected to start work in about one
week.
Six companies submitted bids, four
higher than the successful one ana one
nearly a thousand dollars under Mad
erich & Sladke Virginia, agreed to do
the job for $1,085.
The council divided four to three on
awarding the contract. Mayor Bern
Lambert, and Councilmen Frank Vrane-
SIGH, Archie Hedloff and Joseph Mil
kovich voted yes, and Councilmen John
Debeltz, Joseph Spreitzer, Jr., and
Frank Zgonc, no, on the grounds that
the low bidder should have been given
the job.
Others bidding were H. H. Nivela,
Duluth, $2,170; PittSburgh-Des MONIES
Steel company, Des Moines, $1,000;
American Bridge company, Duluth,
S2,346, and Mid-State Steeplejack and
Construction company, Springfield, ILL.,,
which offered to paint the inside OF
the tank for $3.50, the outside for
like amount, and complete repair work
at various hourly rates depending on
the type of labor employed.
The council will hold special meet
ing Friday at p. m. to consider two
resolutions relative to the Sheridan
street extension job that the state
highway department has requested il
to pass before the project can be COM
pleted.
One would grant permission for
widening the grade. The other would
prohibit any curb gasoline stations
signs or other structures being erected
on the right-of-way, provision neces-
sary in order to use federal funds on
the project. 1t is understood that bids
on the job will be opened August 4.
The Jay w. Craig company, Mime
apoliS, was awarded the contract for
asphalt on bid of 8.3 cents per gal
lon on 1900 gallons of mel, 2 or 8
and SO cents on like amount on re-
l, 2 or g. The bid included applying
the surfacing. There was one other
bidder, j. l.. Thornton Contracting COM
pany Hbbing.
The request of group of East Patti
son street residents for storm and san
itary sewer systems and water line
will be included in future WPA pro-
jects, the council decided.
The recommendation of DR.. John E.
Thompson, city chemist, that the city
purchase six waste paper boxes at a
cost of about SIC each and place them
in public places in the business district
was approved by four-three margin
Aldermen zgonc and Hedlof opposed
the action on the grounds that people
in the business district were required to
dispose of their own paper and thai
the cost was excessive. Mayor Lam
brit also voted no.
No action was taken on communica-
ton addressed to the council by Ely
post No. 2717, Veterans of Foreign Wars
asking that ex-service men be giver
time equal to that of other persons en-
ployed by the city as ordered in a court
decision rendered several years ago.
A request by John and Steve Grahel
for $500 damages to crops caused, the
petitioners stated, by water draining
onto their property during the year:
1899 was referred to the city at.
torney.
The reappointment by the Mayor O.
B. S. Richards and Anton Kotchevar
and the appointment of Mrs. A. j. Nc.
Mahan to succeed Arnold Jylha, to thu
library board was approved.