| Show PAT MORAN PUTS T UP HIGHER BIDS Boosts Prices for fa Asphalt Paving Paving Pay Pay- V ing Way Over Last i V Years Year's Figures V CITY CAUSE OF DELAY T Telephone and Power Men Say V V Street Poles Would Have V V V V Been Moved V Having III a n complete monopoly In the thu V local ocal field Pat Moran loran has hns boosted his price for a asphalt paving pu IS 18 per c cent nt hl higher her than lust last year far Ills His bids bills for work worl on ham street and West Vest Temple I V from Fourth South to Fifth South streets aro are 18 n per pei cent higher than his j JG but are arc 17 7 per cent higher hl than the city II engineers engineer's estimate f. f r V Tho Thu board of or public works met la last t lV night and opened ed bids for the paving pu I VV or n bid bill for or the ham f street paving from rom Twelfth l Kasl street iV to the reservation atlon line Ho put III in u n. V V of lG IGI for paving pa West est Temple Templo street for a a. block The Barber Barbel Asphalt r k Pt ID Paving Paving- company knocked out of UI the V V V fiel last Jast year rear by Moran pUt nut In iii a bi bId I p that wits considerably higher V The Tho board tool took no action postponing I V ll It until I 1 o'clock this tIlls afternoon n when p. p u special meeting will ili be lieu heM held with tI th the V dt city engineer Cn the finance committee o of V V tIle the council and the elty attorney t V Pill Pat Moran who w was ws s present at th the V meeting said that he lie was willing t to toV toI I take lake the contracts despite the tho amend amend- V V V to the public Improvement o law v i. i V V passed b by tho the legislature Ho lie said th the reason tho the are ure hl higher her this year yea car Is that till tho of material has hils gone SOIlO goneS up V V S CH City Ii J. nt ft V O. O t 5 Murray Murra lulIa of tho the Bell Telephone V company and A. A C O. O Honnold of the Utah t Light and Railway company appeared V before the board In regard r to poles Joles in inV V tho the streets The They charged that tho the cit city V Is It rC responsible for th thy tho dolay in tho the moving mo J J. J In lug ing- of ot the poles ol The They said that the failure allure on the part of ot the city to take takeaway I I away th the tire fire alarm and antI police pollee wires V had retarded their work 4 5 The rho board read the communication of i r ill he Utah proofing Fire company compan as ask ask- kin k- k in Ins r to bo be released from Its contract t V which was as referred to the board b by bylic V- V V V the lic he council No 00 o action was taken The Tite communication was tack hack at the council V V |
