Show MANY FIRMS yesterday afternoon a special meeting of 0 the city council was held for or the purpose of opening bids on thel the new municipal electric light and power plant that the job was an attractive ane one was attested by the tact fact that the council chambers w was as packed 1 I with representatives from various firms having bids to submit in all twelve bids were submitted on schedule 3 which includes the construction construct of 0 the intake pipe line power house and the placing of 0 the machinery three proposals were submitted for furnish iii the electrical fixtures and two twe bids were vere submitted tor for supplying na tt awater ater wheel because of the multiply multiplicity leit jr of 0 dea le apartments part ments in e each ach schedule each bid was a small b ook book in itself and a comparison cannot be made until they are all tabulated and placed on oil one sheet that work Is now being lone done by city manager BIa nager C 0 roskelley and engineer K 6 C wright in order to have the sheet tor for consideration by the council at a special ine meeting eting to be 10 held tomorrow at which time the lowest bidder will be announced arid and an award will likely be made it can be stated at this time however that the lowest bids tall fall way under the cites estimate compu computed ted at the prevailing prices at the beginning ot of the year the estimate tor for the completed job was placed at but the bids received yesterday indicate that the total cost will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 0 thus making a saving to the city ot of approximately |