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Show SOME CLOSE BIDS FOR OUR NEW STEAM COLLIERS WASHINGTON". July 1. The navy department de-partment today opened bids for the purchase pur-chase of three tcam colliers of American registry. 720o tons dead weight, maximum cost Sr.25.000. Of tho four bids received the Mason company of T3ostoi offered to soil Its colliers, the Everett. Maiden nnd Molrone, for $525,000, and the Now York Shipbuilding company of Camden. X . ,T . , bid to construct three vessels of 7150 tonnage ton-nage at S430.000 ach. Tho Maryland Steel company of Baltimore bid to build one vessel. SI03.000; two, S307.000. or three. ?395.000 wu-h. all of twln-sorcw typo, 12 knots, at 7200 tons; single-screw type, 121 knot?. 7200 tons, ,177,500 each for two. ?.17fi,000 each for three vessels. Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia. $-175,000 for one or all three, 11 knots, S200 tons. |