Show the contract goes to a salt lake firm who agree to have the ferron orangeville Orang eville and castle dale completed by june and the other two by august ast 1st contractor will be at work in ten days the bids of the different companies lame of firm 30 inch tubes 30 tubes concrete abut AT aunt wood floor wood floor marts concrete extra wood joists floor 49 aeh rail ral and rail james J burke co S it lake 28 27 39 minneapolis Minnea steel biach i anery co salt lake 29 monarch cons co falls city neb M bridge co ban b an city 37 J H v co cald f well ida patterson construction co denver colo 33 asoo As shown by the above jas J burke co of salt lake the lo 10 vest bidders and were awarded ohp by motion of J meeks seconded by A larsen and earned unanimously the motion aloo included th 42 steel tubes for the bridges the COTI missioners being advised by robt ferreter For reter consult ng engineer that th s was the be t class of construction io i for them this b d as accepted makes the total amount to be paid for the five bridges 29 all of the b ds are shown in the above table as is also the d classes of construction cons traction when the plans and specifications for the bridges were talked over with the representatives of the bridge builders and with R W forrester as consulting engineer for the county it was found necessary to make some deviations from the plans this delayed the clos ng of the time to submit bids and it was necessary to wait until fn day moning this being done the time for was wt ahead to 2 clock when the bids were read the matter vas soon settled and the lucky man authorized to get busy robert forrester was authorized to draw up a contract with the said jas J barke co for the st ruction of the bridges and count clerk mark Tuttle was authorized to sign the same ane contractor s bond was st at 5 re nac of th b d to b ready for acceptance by the colim assion ers at their february geeting in the contract the tim allowed for the of the bri ages iges at ferron Oring eville and Castl sdale is 1 anted to june 1st the others to folio v AS soon a possible but with the time limited to aug 1st the contracting company no v has a force of men at work in carbon county and expects to bring them over here in a week or ten da s thug it 11 be seen that tl ings are working out as figured by ane board and that there are no difficulties in the way of the carry ying out of the work as aromi ed by those who boosted for the bond issue in conclusion it may b well to say that in h s to the condrac tor chairman S agleton tola him hat h wanted every part of the work on these bridges done r that no poor material should be used or poor work naan ship allo ved that after the peo pie had voted tha bonds and placed the funds at the d of th bord he asprec alej their confidence ar d he would rather pay half the anc of one of the bridges himself than to have any part of it bu poor material or by incapable workmen treso were fal sanctioned by the other members of the board by abo county clerk mark tuttle and so it has come to pass that the deed is acet jally done the bonds are voted and ane contract let for th bridges wi sad anery county was not on the rap 1 road to progress and kep your eye 01 ernei |