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Show CONTRACTORMAKES PLEA FOR RELI Oweu Gray, whose company hoMi contract for the construction of the 1 lakes dam and reservoir in Big Coi wood canyon, told the city comm!i yesterday that because of m!slmer tion of the city engineer's specific! he stood to lose about $18,000 on tho tract. He asked that the citv eu compromise in the matter to'eavj from so heavy a loss and served -f tha if the city compels him to & l wit.h tho contract as it now stair will abandon the work and surrenii equipment. The amount of the contract anr mates $$t000, but because of ur for 'conditions not provided for n engineer's specifications. Gray the cost will greatly exceed that fir: Sylvester Q. Cannon declared that specifications were as nearly cor:r possible. Mr. Gray said that he wy criticising the specifications from ti glneering standpoint, out asserts they were misleading. Several of the commissioners tp-i stand that, having awarded them:: the city had no right to come i: rescue of the contractor. It woH be fair to the other contractors tered bids on the work, they ei;'r The matter was taken under m; ment and the commissioners will ;r with the city attorney as xo some r of settling it without recourse to courts. |