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Show IT WAS NOT BUSINESS. If tho council really means to make any improvements in the waterworks it is taking rather a roundabout way to do it. Bids were advertised for, and five contractors from distant points came here at considerable expense and put in bids, all of which have beeu rejected, re-jected, and new ones on different specifications are to bo called for. Under Un-der ordinary circumstances no one could find any fault with this course, except the lowest bidder, who was entitled to the contract. con-tract. But it is intimated that the council coun-cil never intended to award any contract on the bids which it advertised for that It merely wanted to got some practical information us to the cost of the work in case it was decided to do it. If this is true, all the bidders have just grounds of complaint, because none of them had any show of getting tho contract. The council should have advertised ad-vertised for information, and offered to pay for it. Tho next time the council calls for bids it should make up its mind as to what it actually wants, and then award the contract accordingly. Contractors Con-tractors will not como here from a distance dis-tance to bid on work unless they are treated in a bnsinoss-liko manner. |