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Show BIDS FOR WATERWORKS WATER-WORKS OPENED. At last we got on to the time of the city council's meeting'. For a while it has been impossible Tor anyone to "catch on'' except the members them selves, who were obliged to be informed. in-formed. What the obieut has been for this semi-clandestiuo method is hard to conjecture, and the uninformed uninform-ed public can but conclude th?re is some side transactions that we children should not know about. Saturday night was held the regu-lary regu-lary monthly session. Engineer Lyman Ly-man and a couple of contractors from Salt Lake were present to see opened the bids filed to furnish necessary piping and fixtures for the new water system. One of the bids,sent in was locked in the recorders desk, and: he absent. But the sender had taken precaution to file a copy with Mr. Lyman, who produced it aid the consideration con-sideration of bids proceeded. It took nearly the whole evening to read and figure up on the proposi- tions submitted. The two lowest bidders were from' outside- the state and from these the council, desiring to consider them further, will award the contract at another meeting. While Mr. Lyman and the contractors con-tractors presaut were figuring up the respective bids offered, the council huddled up and considered a number of claims that had been filed, and acted upon them. A request for an appropriation to the park grand stand was alaotakeih up and 100 granted to the ' Guuni'-oa B ise Ball Team" as a donation to the grand stand and and some minor outlay. The session concluded with an arrangement ar-rangement to go over the water system sys-tem line with Mr. Lyman Sunday morning. The mayor suggested only a select number to-go, but that didn't fit and it waB decided to go in a body. |