Show V OUI mm SEIM I 1 4 11 I 1 the contract will frilay sot not be let until I 1 on tuesday july let the city council held a meeting aud and opened ra the bids for construction and material I 1 terl a 1 the com committee in ties is ii V blasdel dell W 11 dturner UT turner urner A 0 fell fallt T A whalan and P B ilu r lb it t at that meeting the mayor city attorney and I 1 city engineer were aided mod a with power r a to act in awarding the contract this responsibility however they 1 have not cared to shoulder eb aua and in all likelihood the matter will to wo over I 1 until the regular meeting on friday in conversation with a member of the committee yesterday afternoon i he stated that eastern bidders were I 1 far ar below local men borne some of the I 1 latter litter being nearly per cent higher than the lowest bid the city engineers fi figures cures as riven given months ago are not far out of the way the lowest bid counting a little better cement than is included in that bid ranging from to it la Is impossible to tell exactly without having the I 1 bids for reference aa as the various kinds of material to te to used and the various kinds of work in construction appear in ee separate parate figures I 1 the city has borrowed in the treasury tile remainder must P be raised by local assessment in the I 1 first sewer district lying between twenty first and twenty sixth and between wall and washl washington agton forming nearly eight milea miles of sewers I 1 |