Show MORAN ANXIOUS i ABOUT till I HS HIS PAVING Wants to Get Brigham Job Through While He Owns Council Counci WAITING ON ENGINEER llo lt Ot Work oik Done Some Time Tinie TIle J ARO Jo o hut But lc c Delays Preliminary Prelim dim inary flar E Estimate Pat Moran Salt Lakes Lake's official contractor eon con tractor tractor Is 18 getting mail mad because tho the preliminary estimate on a n proposed street Improvement has not yet been reported to the time city council counci b by the time city engineer The Thc estimate which Moran an and his supporters In the time counci council coun coun- cil ci have been seeking for a couple of oC weeks affects Brigham street from flom Tenth East Eat to the time reservation line Ino It ItIs ItIs I Is a mere matter maler of oC being 2800 feet Ion long and amI the time regular wl width lh of oC sixty feet feet Tho The city council on Jul July IS 18 granted the petition of one P P. J J. J Moran and several others to have that portion porton of ot Brigham street paved with asphalt asphalt The council counci ordered tho the various of officials of- of to unwind the tho roll rol of oC IC red i-ed tape and anti start starl the time Improvement Tho The city engineer has hns not yet ot made malc a r preliminary prelim Inal mary inary estimate on the work worl and until un un- Ill til t he corner comes conle through with it It I. I the time timework work worl Is delayed He lie le will wI have to lo tomake make male the estimate and amid hand it I to the board of public works Then Timen the usual custom of advertising for or bids will wl be followed Cause Canto o of or Anxiety The reason that Pat Moran and his henchmen have been heen so anxious about that preliminary estimate Is that if the time el city does docs not advertise for bids this fall all fal there Is likely to bo he some competition In the time spring The Time work cannot be bo done one next year car anyhow anyhow anyhow any any- how but Moran wants to put the contract contract con con- tract in his pocket et this fall fal so that thal ho lie can command his own on figure while lie ho Is the only bidder in the time held field rel If I the time el city waits wals until next spring there will wi probably be ime another bidder an and amid Moran loran will wi either cither have to cross criss-cross cross crIs-cross his competitor as ns he lie tl did the trust trust or ti will have t o to come como down to spring prices He lie le neither wants to be bothered bothered both hoth- ered by other contractors nor by spring prices Fall figures arc are always best If the time work worle can be done in the tho following spring CI City Engineer I elsey was asked yesterday wh why ho did not present the pl preliminary estimate and antI he ho explained explain explain- ed ott that ho lie has haM too much work for tor forthe forthe the force In his office lie le Is getting out the work as fast as po possible and amid andIs andIs Is not hot purposely delaying the Moran estimate Mr r Kelsey Kelse points to the fact tact that he lie has issued preliminary estimates on ott over a million dollars worth of public improvement and has turned out about halt half haI a I million In lii actual construction work He lie le has found it hard ham to obtain competent en engineers en- en Ineer and hl his work has been retarded re- re lo to to toa a a a. a great reat extent on account of at this scarcity He lie has several preliminary estimates estimates est est- esti esti- mates yet et to and the thC Brigham street estimate is among them Not So O Sure of Next Ytm Year Morans Moran's Cn eagerness to have havo time the counci council coun coun- cil cli ci advertise for Cor bids this ibis year shows his full CuI In Iii his own power Ho lie le knows ho lie has put lUt competition out of the local Hold held this thie year and there will wi bo be no other bidder But lut ho is not quIto quite so sure of ot next year ear when other contractors arc are almost certain to pop in iii and amid make male a bid hid for public pavIng pa ing Besides the time market marlet is higher In Inthe inthe the tho fall fail fal than It is In the time spring spring- and andorn Moran foran orn will wl ask hl bigger SC prices If IC he I gets gels the time contract before winter sets In |