Show OCE CITY Bise in our opinion city is being imposed upon by the contract on city plumbing which is equally as bad as the imposition being perpetrated in behalf of tha dispatch of course the plumbing is legalized by an unjust contract while the printing bills ara illegally allowed without having been bid on as stipulated by ordinance but the former is no less a heong and wa believe wo haye amplo to substantiate the charge we will give an example last night the city plumber brought in a bill of 1830 for work done at the first national bank seventy six feet of inch pipe wai used and it took three men div hours to dig the drenching trenching tren ching and la the pipes this cattar will be to if d the material need we take from the bill presented to the council on this basis let us do a little figuring three men working 5 hours at 30 cents an hoar amounts t 4 60 which subtracted from 1330 leaves 1380 for material furma hed tha piping used can be had ht 9 ct per foot when taken in lara quantities aa the city is doing but we will allow 10 acts per foot at which rate 76 feet of piping amounts to subtract this coat from the 1380 by the city and we find his not gains on this job of five hours to we believe the city can ill afford to pay such profits under its present financial embarrassment at the rates of tho present which we learn can bo annulled at the pleasure of the bills are piling in on the city and in our candid opinion unjustly too it ia just such in tho treasury as we hare mentioned that must be stopped or ere long Provo will be plunged in to such an extent as will interfere with public progress we that tha public printing is being donadt nearly double it cast the city jast year when bids weare forand we think that the present plumbing is also an imposition on the public |