Chapter V: Bids

I

Bid for repairs on the Casa Grande ruins, in Pinal County,
Arizona, bidders to furnish all labor and materials according to
specifications:

Item No. 1. Cleaning out débris, 60 cents per cubic yard.
Item No. 2. Underpinning walls, $1 per cubic foot.
Item No. 3. Filling in openings, $1 per cubic foot.
Item No. 4. Bracing walls, $200.
Item No. 5. Wire fence, 3 cents per foot complete.
Item No. 6. Roof, $2,000.

(Signed) T. L. Stouffer.
F. E. White.

Florence, Arizona, _January 28, 1891_.

II

Bid for putting a roof on the Casa Grande ruins as per plans and
specifications furnished, $3,000.

(Signed) C. D. Henry.

III

Bid for fencing in the Casa Grande ruins: Furnishing the posts and
barbed wire, for 100 feet of fence, $7 per 100 feet.

(Signed) C. D. Henry.

IV

Bids for restoring the Casa Grande ruins:

First. Removing débris from interior of the ruins, 320 cubic yards,
more or less, $1 per yard; 140 cubic yards from exterior of the
ruins, at 60 cents per yard.

Second. Eight hundred cubic feet of brick masonry underpinning, more
or less, at $1.30 per cubic foot.

Third. One thousand cubic feet, more or less, of brick masonry to
fill in cavities, at $1.40 per cubic foot.

Fourth. Bracing walls, as per plans, $120.

Fifth. Five hundred lineal feet of 2 by 4 square timber at 8 cents
per foot, lumber measure.

(Signed) C. D. Henry.

V

Phoenix, Arizona, _February 11, 1891_.
Cosmos Mindeleff, Esq.,
_Tempe, Arizona_.

Dear Sir: I hereby submit for your consideration, in reference to
the plans and specifications for the preservation of the Casa Grande
ruins of Arizona, bids upon the following propositions, to wit:

First. "Cleaning out the débris." For the removal of 470 cubic yards
of material, more or less, at $2.65 per cubic yard.

Second. "Underpinning walls." For 800 cubic feet of brick masonry,
more or less, laid and plastered as specified, at $4.25 per cubic
foot.

Third. "Filling in openings." For filling in cavities in walls and
restoring lintels of openings, as specified, 1,000 cubic feet, more
or less, at $2.25 per cubic foot.

Fourth. "Bracing walls." For bracing walls, $85.30.

Fifth. "Wire fencing." Twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents per
100 feet of completed fence.

Sixth. "Roofing." As per specifications, $4,722.

Respectfully submitted.

(Signed) M. E. Clauton.