Show TACKLES MORE IMPROVEMENTS Board of Works to Solicit Bids for Sidewalks and Sewers GOES AHEAD ON ITS NERVE CONTRACTORS UNLIKELY TO SCRAMBLE FOR JOBS J Contemplated Cont t d Improvements lin f EtIm Cost 9 Sidewalk Extension Eder l n No 89 f Sidewalk Extension No Xo f 4 Sewer Seer Extension Ext slon No St 4 Sewer Extension No 82 4 4 Sewer Extension No 19 19 4 4 4 4 Total t t t t 4 t t 4 f tt tt t t Bids for tor public improvements the lie esti estimated estimated sti mated cost of ot which is and which will ivill probably coit when hen completed at least xi will be opened June M O by b I tle tile board of ot public works Notwithstanding i ing the depleted condition of ot the treasury notwithstanding th the difficulty which ron eon contractors I tractors are arc experiencing in lii If securing s their compensation and notwithstanding the fi 11 fp financial I tangle in which the city ct has he be b bome become i come ome involved it has been decided to en endeavor endeavor endeavor deavor to go 10 ahead with this work In the minds of oC several members of ot the board hoard of oC public works there exists exi tc great doubt whether any an bids will be received on the walk work ork at least It If there are any an bids it t Is la confidently expected x and andin andIn andin in many man quarters hoped that they hh will be PO eo far above the engineers en estimates as 38 to preclude the possibility po nf of the worl work being done at let last this yea It is believed by b the administration that It la Is I only onh necessary to make male a bluff that this work will be done in order to satisfy the property owners who ar an clamoring for improvements The administration re realizes realizes realizes fully full that there is s not enough mon money mont ey Cs t on hand to pay Pd for the s share thare of It this work which would roughly speak speaking speakIng speaking ing amount to about and ind its only concern Is to let the contracts or try to let Jet them and then delay the Improvements until next year ear The simple to so solicit licit heit and open bid bIds it is thought will wll be sufficient to tu 0 appease the owners A Serious Muddle V A list of the various extensions to be bid hid on appears above together with the estImates s in all but No o 89 where the figures are arc only an ap approximation approximation I This extension is on the io nth lh bench anti ami consists of oC fifteen miles of or sidewalks four feet teet wide on First Second and Third avenues from State street through the alphabet district and including all nil inter intersecting streets The contract for doing this work was wac let IH to the Utah Fireproof ng company com pan In 1505 lr O but after completing five miles of the twenty included in the contract that company refused to go fur further further ther and the council recently released that from Its contract contrat Now a levy lev on the uncompleted ted portion has hasto to be made oer over again and a new contract let letIn letIn v vIn In connection with this contract there is isa ISn isa a n serious muddle which it will wll take the intellect of oC a Philadelphia lawyer Jawer to fig figure ire ure out When hen the assessment was vas made In this district it was made on the basis of the contract price of oC the fireproofing company or about I cents a foot root Many Ian of the property owners who have received no Ho benefit paid and their money mone is still fn in the treasury On the other hand many nany ot of f those thosa who have sidewalks in lu front of their places did not pay but have hae the benefit of oC the walks until the time conies comes when the city will compel them to pay payAs 1 payAs As a result a considerable portion of ot the money paid the company compan for tor its work in inthis InthIs this district comes out of the fund paid in n by b the property owners who received no benefit Undesirable Contracts When the new assessment is levied it will be made after the completion of ot the work and aud will wll be based on the actual cost The new statute provides that this shall be the rule in the future Because of oC this complicated state of or af at affairs fairs it is evident to the thin board boarI of works that this contract will ivill not be sought after acter by bv contractors to any an great extent Sidewalk extension No is h I a small af at affair affair fair and extends along Jefferson Indiana antI and Titusville avenues a mues Sewer Hewer extension No ISO 81 JI lias is 9 between Fifth Firth and Ninth South So th streets and cast east of ot the gravity sewer It is to be a pipe line sewer Sewer extension No Xo Is is bounded on north by Fifth South on the south by Ninth South on the west vet by b Second West est and on the east by Main street s r t Sewer Se er extension No is bounded on n in inthe the north by h First North on the south by br South Temple on the west by Third West and aud on the east by b Main street Ml UI 11 extensions were included in the contract let to J P Kennedy Kenned In Starch March ind nd which declared illegal because bee use the new law went Into effect before it was |