Show 1 Good Bargaining Prompted This Scene j i 5 4 t u s j peI s t 4 S if t 4 x y EXECUTIVE CONGRATULATIONS GO TO LOWEST BIDDER Governor Henry II Blood left eft shakes hands with T. T E. E Con Connolly o ly as J J. J C. C Costello powder r company v representative looks on I I Coast Firms Firm's Bid 1 Is s toW Low o w For Water Project Unit California Company's Offer Is Surprise Estimate at Meet Offering to supply labor and machinery for the building of the Deer creek dam unit of the Provo river water project at a price of the Rohl-Connolly Rohl company of Los Angeles and San Francisco one of the west's largest construction partnerships Friday was low bidder as 12 proposals were opened by United States reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- service officials before a throng of more more mor than in the federal building here The bids ranged to a high o of possession and availability availability availability avail avail- ability of adequate equipment being credited for the Connolly Rohl-Connolly company's unexpectedly low estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate greeted with whistles o of amazement from all parts of th the hall as it was read and termed by Governor Henry H. H Blood a good gooc fair proposal All 12 bids each including a thick table of detailed figures on every phase of the work will go at oneto once one t to Denver headquarters of the reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- rec- rec service and thence to th the bureau at Washington which will wil award the contract designate th the time limit and set the date for start star of work probably early this spring Certain factors relating to bond and responsibility can eliminate low bids from the bureaus bureau's consideration tion but because the Rohl-Connolly Rohl company has has' fulfilled large contracts conI contracts con con- tracts for the reclamation j service ervice I and has completed many state and Continued on on Page FIve Column Four COAST FIRM BID IS LOW AT MEET Continued from Page One municipal works in the wes west other bidders sai said t they ey were willing to concede the contract to the California California California Cali Cali- fornia firm Attending the opening of the bids T. T E E. Connolly partner of H. H W. W Rohl said some changes but none important were made in their proposal proposal proposal pro pro- after an order Thursday from the department of labor had raised from 60 to 65 cents an hour the wage rate of muckers and common laborers on the first unit consisting consisting consisting consist consist- ing of the Deer creek dam relocation relocation relocation reloca reloca- tion of Denver Rio Grande Western Western Western West West- ern railroad tracks and building of ofa a state highway unit Some Make Changes Other bidders said they also had made some alterations in their origInal original original inal figures after the bids had been returned to them following the reading reading reading read read- ing of the order and a few said they had made no changes at all deciding to absorb the extra cost unofficially estimated at for forthe forthe forthe the unit Mr Connolly said the number of workers to be employed could not be determined immediately Labor leaders have said they are arc counting on more than for the project including at least muckers and common laborers At 10 a a. a m. m E. E O. O Larson chief reclamation service engineer in charge of the project mounted the bench In the large civil service examination examination examination ex ex- room and by announcing that bids would be opened forthwith forthwith forthwith forth forth- with set in motion the construction process of the largest work of its kind in the history of the state to cost an estimated in all irrigating vast agricultural lands and through an aqueduct to be built as the last unit assuring the water supply of Salt Lake City for far generations generations generations gen gen- to come Bids Recited Except for the expression of surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise as the low bid was read the assembly of bidders and their clerks water users public officials labor representatives and others listened intently as Mr Larson read the totals totals totals to to- to- to in this order W. W E E. McCallahan Construction company Dallas Texas Foley Brothers Inc New York and St. St Paul Griffith Company Inc and D. D W. W Thurston Los Angeles Rohl-Connolly Rohl company 2189 United Construction company Winona Minn J. J F F. Shea company Los Angeles Guy F. F Atkinson Co Guy F F. Atkinson Construction company San Francisco 2317 Utah Construction company of Ogden and Morrison-Knudsen Morrison company company company com com- pany Inc Boise Idaho McCarthy Improvement company Davenport Iowa Shofner Gordon Hinman Los Angeles Jones Forcum company Dyersburg Dyersburg Dyersburg Dyers- Dyers burg Tenn Driver company Memphis Memphis Memphis Mem Mem- and Clark Kearney Stark St. St Louis M Mittry I t t try r y Brothers Construction company Los Angeles Connolly Congratulated After congratulating Mr Connolly Connol Connol- ly Governor Blood said he was gratified that contractors have come from as far away as Texas New York Minnesota and Iowa to bid on the preliminary work of the Provo project Immediately after the last total was read Mr Larson delegated to toa toa toa a deputy the task of reading the details de details details de- de tails of each bid The assembled contractors appeared interested however only in the details of the Rohl-Connolly Rohl proposal and the reading of the long tables of figures figures figures fig fig- ures was dis discontinued soon by agreement with the contractors Mr Larson immediately put an augmented staff of typists to work on the preparation of the abstract of bids to be dispatched to Wash Wash- ington Late in the day each figure no matter how unimportant was being checked and rechecked by the reclamation service staff |