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Show I: PROBLEM OF PfllG CiFiK OGDEi City Commissioners Receive Various Bids for Varied Material, Ma-terial, at Varied Prices. Special Jo The Tribune OCDISN". So(. 1- Property owners' anil representatives of various processes ' for a.plmlt paving: literally bombarded tlif city commissioners Ju the of Hue of Mayor A. G. Fell today with demands and arguments relative to the awarding of the contract for pavlny Twenty-fifth street between Washington and Harrison avenues. The bids for. the varlous proccssctj ranpro from JoG.000 to $57,000, thereby maUinp the improvement one of the most Important ever undertaken in the city. MSffl'1 rho strongest point made hv anv of ,r,t?"t'ets represented was voiced by iKlwj H Wheel wrlplit, who acted as spolces- M M l '"an for a number of properly owners. InlJ qiB. i Vr- Wheelwright demanded for the m M'i I enty-tifth street Improvement the ffl 'jjfl same hlch class of Work that, was done Eg jftj on Llio Washington avenue business sec- J3 J "on ton years ago, declaring t'liat the n; ti . Washington avenue stretch of pa vine; is I lid ' lJ1e on,y 0,10 stood the tost of Ifll f1'"0- The city has been put to pracUeal- ! ; ly no expense for the maintenance of this HI navoment. while that constructed in more iijjj i 'ccent yean? is a constant e.vponse. f J la In advertising for bids on the Twenty- frfli ! 'If til st met improvement, the commission- BjJJ ts specified various forms of pavement. BM ; ThI 8 was the result, as shown when the , iffi bldK were opened a few days ago: fn Utah rock asphalt A. A. Clark. Iff ; Bltullthlc Warren Brothers company. 'Ill : HS.00i.5l; Strang McGulre. $51.97-02. taff i Dolanvay Northwestern Paving com- 31' ' nany. $.18,S32.2.1: Bird & iUendenhall, ?3G,- I Q5j ; 005.72; A. A. Clark, 34J.S-17.10. ! Til Asphalt P. J. Moran. $51,017.19,- Strang ujf, X .McGulre. 5o7.00S.70: J. P. O'Neill com- 19i; nany. $50,152.70. WVj , j Every process upon which bids were ' i received, with the exception of straight IPjUj. asphalt, was represented by ardent advo-wlfln advo-wlfln , !l,cs' S. M Barlow, former chief of po- IyMiE 'Ice of Salt Lake, and representing the ''tali Rock Asphalt association, exhibited 'l to the city board a cashier's check for 510,000 which ho will deposit with the city treasurer as an assurance that a ! surely bond for the same amount will be ! furnished as a ten-year maintenance , bond for any contractor If the Utah rock "! Is specified in the contract. This material i was given added prestige when City j Engineer TI. J. Craven reported- to the f commissioners that he 1iad tested the I Utah material with satisfactory results, tho rock asptmlt showing more life and resiliency than many of the other ma-f ma-f lerlals used In paving, j The members of the city board at-,' at-,' icmplod lo reach no decision today rc-' rc-' warding the material to he specified for l he big contract. The final decision probably prob-ably will be made public at. the regular i meeting on Monday night. Tn addition to the problem as to the material, there ' arc one or two legal questions to be dc-j dc-j cided before the contract is awarded. |