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of Zollars Carson, of Kiowa, Kansas, was 'low, no contract lias been awarded, as yet. The board of educa Construction News Topeka, Kan sag. The famous, original and only tion is considering bids. C. A.

Hen A I.IVK WIRE FOR EVERYBODY INTERESTED IN KAN8AS BUILDING. derson, of Coffcyvlle, is the architect. The plans call for a structure, one story high, 5Gx7.5, of brick and stone construction. APPEARING EVERY SATURDAY. Coffeyvitle If It Is the first possible report of construction work in Kansas, authentically stated, that you want, your desires will be rratifled fn this paper.

Subscription Rates: $2 per year, in ad vance. 0 cents per month. Advertising Rates furnished upon THEY WERE UNFAIR TO LOW BIDDER IN NEBRASKA. Brick Notify us Immediately in caste you do not rseeive the paper each week. Also, please uetlfy us of changes in address.

Entered as second-class matter, June 20, lfll. at, the Post Office at Topeka, Kansas, -under the Act of March 3, 1879. Address. THE CONSTRUCTION NEWS Room 308 Central Bank Building. Topeka, Kansas.

which includes round-edge impervious, square-edge impervious, round-edge and square-edge dry press, mantel brick, ornamental brick, flooring tile, drain tile. The well known indestructible vertical fiber street paving blocks, repressed blocks, side walk pavers, and flooring pavers. FRED B. COOPER, Publisher. $275,000 ELEVATOR CONTRACT LET.

Lehrich Construction Co. of Kansas City to Build Wichita Structure. Contractors Everywhere Should Fight for Square Deal One Bid Three Days Late. It is said tllat a lot of Nebraska contractors are indignant over tlie manner in which the building committee of the Fremont Nebraska Hotel Co. is attempting to award a contract for a $175,000 hotel in that city.

And from the outside it does look mighty bad. It is said that a bid from the Sheldon-Breclc Construction Co. of St. Louis' was accepted three days after all the other bids had been received, opened and published, and that this company had received a set of the plans and specifications before any of the other bidders had received them. This, of itself, was grossly unfair to the other bidders.

When the bids were opened it was found that the J. C. Mardis Company was low and it was generally conceded that they would be awarded -the contract. The hotel company, however, states now that they will re-advertise for bids and it is expected that the Sheldon-Breck company will be asked to refigure. When will the architects, the.

owners and the public in general wake up to this grossly unjust practice of receiving late bids and of exposing all the bids submitted when the building committee decides to reject these bids' FIVE LARGE PLANTS. The Coffey ville Vitrified Brick Tile Company General office, Coffeyville, Kansas. and call for new figures? Are the C. F. GUSTAFSON CO.

Sanitary Engineers Plumbing, Heating, Lighting Designers Phone 465 i i A contract has been awarned to the Lehrich Construction Co. of Kansas City, for the construction of a million bushel elevator at Wichita, which will cost when completed about $300,000. The contract calls for and the purchase price of the site 'was $25,000. Workmen have started to construct a trackage system for the elevator. Four railroads are sharing the expense of $25,000 to lay the tracks.

Money for this immensp structure was raised by selling stock to big grain men in all parts of the South-heat. The new building will be the zenith of modern, fireproof mill construction and not a piece of wood will be used. Instead it will be entirely of concrete and steel construction. Thirty-two motors will be installed to drive the machinery. Nine huge concrete tanks or bins with a capacity of 35,000 bushels each will be used to store the wheat.

Each bin will be more than eighty feet high. In the front part of the elevator proper will be the machinery used to wash, clean, sort and mix the wheat as it is unloaded. All the machinery will be of steel. Contractors say the building will be completed by the first of February. It has been stipulated that unless the building were ready for use by February, the contracting company would forfeit a large bond.

And when it is completed it will be paid for, according to Henry Lassem, president of the company. contractors helpless? Is there no way to force the committee to accept the low bid or to keep the bids secret in case it is necessary to refigure? Wont the contractors have to organize to defend themselves? Topeka, Kans. 112 East 7th FOR TWO $12,000 APARTMENTS SALINA. FAVORITE FURNACES AND TIN WORK HOLTMAN HEATING CO. 621 Quincy Topeka, Kans.

Daniel Weigner Will Open Bids At Once C. A. Smith, Architect. Bids for the construction of two $12,000 apartment houses for Daniel Weigner at Salma, Kansas, will be opened today or tlie first of next week by the owner. Each building is to contain four apartments, will be two stories and basement in height, 55x42, of brick and frame construction.

C. A. Smith, of Salina, is the architect. CONTRACTORS BONDS LIABILITY Stephenson Webb, 611 Kans. Topeka Phone 654 Ask Frank Whitney for Rates $9,000 CHURCH FOR CHAPMAN.

SUB CONTRACTS ON WILSON SCHOOL. JOHN H. KITCHEN CO. KANSAS CITY, MO. Heating, Ventilation, Venilated Sanitariee Send lor Catalogs Specialty Schools, Chnrches, Public Bnildings TRIANGLE WOVEN WIRE FABRIC IN STOCK Architects Johnson Shaver, of Clay Center, Preparing Plans.

Plans and specifications for a $9,000 M. E. church at Chapman, Kansas, are -in the course of preparation by Architects Johnson Shaver, of Clay Center. No dates have been set for the receiving or opening of bids. The buiding will consist of one story, a basement and a gallery and will be 40x61 feet in dimensions, of hollow tile and brick construction.

W. A. COLLINGS CO. 1307 Waldheim Bldg. Kansas City, Mo.

Will Take Figures on Painting and Plastering A Few Subs Awarded. J. T. Dalton Son, contractors of Junction City, have awarded tlie following sub-contracts on the $22,000 school building which they will build at Wilson, Kansas: Mill work to the Correll Manufacturing of Manhattan; Steel to the Western Iron Foundry of Wichita; heating and plumbing to J. II.

Baum, of Wilson, Kansas. They will take figures on the painting and plastering. Excavating has just been completed. Boy T. Dalton' is superintending the work.

building will be two stories with 64x84, of brick, tile, concrete and steel C. L. is clerk of the board of edu-. Geo. Sardou WAYSIDE SCHOOL CONTRACT NOT AWARDED.

Advertise Notice to Bidders in this paper and get results. TOPEKA, KANSAS. WILL GLADLY SUBMIT FIGURES ON Electrical Work TO KANSAS CONTRACTORS. Zollars and Carson Are Low Bidders i on $9,000 Building. Altho bids for the construction of a school building at Wayside, Kansas, were opened last week, and the cation, The basement, Dfinner 3.