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Show oo GREAT DISCREPANCY IN BIDS, This city contracting must allow of a very large margin of profit, or there is a vast difference in the abll ity of contractors In Salt Lake City, bids were opened the first of the week on sewer extensions. A Chicago contractor offered to do the work for $110,000 less than his closest competitor com-petitor and $200,000 under the estimate esti-mate of tho city engineer. Either Salt Lako has been paying fancy prices, or the Chicago contractor contrac-tor is about to lose a very large sum of money in gaining experience. The Indications are the city has been liberally lib-erally rewarding those who have been! doing its contract work. |