Deseret Evening News | 1907-07-26 | Page 5 | City Warrants Are Discounted

oily WARRANTS DISCOUNTED ARE E Contractor Burch Durch Lands Some Ready Money at 95 Cents On the Dollar STATE BOARD BO ORD RD TAKES THEM cow Xo That He Gets Purl Port url of Ills lIs Duos ues Contractor to Get to 10 Work The Tho second Installment nt ot of the worth of special Improvement warrants of the tho city vas US taken up by tho the stat stain board of land commissioners yesterday when It paid to S lUrch Ulrch the sidewalk contractor J for fo the scrip tho face taco value alue of oC which shieh was The Tho warrants vere sold at nt 95 05 cents on the dollar which is as tho th best st Birch could receive for them the banks has hav having hasing ing refused to o 0 altO them hem at nt that price A batch was taken up by the th board several days ago UKO for tor 7 70 Now that Birch haa hils been able to dis ha dispose pose poso of or some comae at of tho the warrants arrants and get gel ge gehis his money which has been tied up about a year he lIe has suddenly discovered dIscovered ered crud that hU 1113 hl contract of ot last year is nil all right anti and he Ito Is not anxious to get et out of It but Is gains ahead with tha tue uncompleted portions of the time contract which hu ho laid down don on because he could net get no for tor his work Hi Himen men aro now laying walks ns as fast fasl as possible on the thu north bench bunch and anti the tho thelast thelast last lust years contract will no doubt bo be completed complete this year ar arIn In the bid which Birch put In on sidewalks lie 10 provided having to discount tho the warrants by b morons Increasing ing ins his bid about 23 POI per cent The board hoard of 01 public works has hns awarded him hint most of the sidewalk f work for Cor this year ear eaf HO so he ho will faro pretty well oell evell it If he ho does docs have bavo to discount his Will war runts rants