Show MANY ESTIMATES APPROVED Board of Public Works Held Special Meeting Yesterday The Board of Public Works held a special meeting yesterday at whlclf partial estimates of the City Engineer aggregating something over 510000 were approved and sent to the City Council The largest item was 1029450 In favor of the Excelsior Wooden Pipe company which has the reservoir contract con-tract A communication was received from the City Engineer giving It as his opinion that it was now too late to complete the standpipe sprinkling system In time to be of much benefit this fall The matter was referred to Chairman Dooly of the board and Chairman Canning of the Sprinkling committee Mi Canning said last night that bids would noon be opened for the work and that It would then be pushed to completion So far only one bid has been received An illegible communication was received re-ceived from the agent of the Excelsior Wood Pipe company concerning the delay de-lay on tire reservoir work From what could be translated It appeared that the company had not proceeded further fur-ther because the pipe to be used between be-tween the entry chamber and the gatehouse gate-house had not been received P J Moran has the qontract for furnishing this pipe and ho was notified of the claim made by the company The bid oC Silver Bros of 2050 for furnishing an Iron ladder at the reset volr was accepted The only other bidder was the Utah Foundry and Machine Ma-chine company who wanted U2 |