bids ordered. Bids were received on April 2ti. 1915, and on April 30. 1915. contract was awarded to the Standard American Dredging Company.
The awarding of the contract for the paving of embankmenls was delayed partly from caution and partly by causes beyond the control of your Commission or your Engineers. Your Engineers deemed it advisable to wait until after the high water of 1916 in order to observe the effects of such high water on the ombankments. and so as not unnecessarily to subject permanent pavemont to possible settlements which might occur to
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