The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-01-20
The Contract Between the City of Man.
kato and the Mankato Mill Company.

The Contract Between the City of Man
kato and the Mankato Mill Company.
This agreement made this 10th day
of April, A. d. 1879, by and between
Rensselaer, ID. Hubbard, William
Pearson and George NJ. Palmer, of the
city of Mankato, County of Blue Earth,
State of Minnesota, party of the first
part, and the city of Mankato, NUM-
cipal corporation duly organized and
established in the County and State
aforesaid under the laws of this State,
party of second part, witnesseth. That
for the consideration hereinafter men
toned the party Of the first part agrees
as follows
First-To furnish and set up in the
mill owned by the Mankato Mill Com
pany situate in bloc k four in the city of
Mankato, according to S. P. Folsom's
survey and plat of said city, Knowles
steam fire pump of the latest and best
pattern, of the following dimensions to
wit: steam cylinder twenty-four inch
diameter by twenty-four inch stroke,
with water cylinder twelve inch diane
ter by twenty four inch stroke, with
rated capacity of two thousand three
hundred and fifty gallons delivery of
water per minute, said water to be used
by said city of Mankato only for fire
purposes, sprinkling of streets, and
washing of cutters, in said city of Man.
kato and also for general use at the City
Hall in said city.
Second-Party of first part agrees to
allow said city to make attachments to
the two Knowles pumps owned by the
MankatO Mill Company said Knowles
pumps to have a capacity of $50 gallons
per minute, to be used in case the city
pump should get out OF order, or at
time when it is being repacked Or in
case of fire of such magnitude as to
require the use of SAID extra pumps.
Third-The party of the first part
shall also furnish sufficient boiler capa.
city as follows, viz three horizontal
tubular boilers, fifty.six inches in diane.
ter, fourteen feet long made of the best
quality Of iron and set up in the best and
most approved manner, independent of
each other, with proper attachments to
a brick smoke stackc one hundred and
fourteen feet high and three feet fue,
all of the above machinery shall he I'M
der the care of good and competent
men and said party of first part, will
keep constant steam pressure Of not
less than forty pounds per square inch
or rs much less as the committee on
water works shall order from time to
time, and in case of fire will furnish all
the power that can be used with said
boilers and machinery, provided how
ever in case OF fire no greater pressure
than one hundred pounds steam pres
sure to The square inch shall be used
unless ordered by the chief engineer of
the fire department of said city of Man
kato, but the Mankato Mill Company
or its assigns however shall not be de.
prived of the use of said boilers for
manufacturing purposes when their use
shall not be necessary for the purpose
of supplying water to said city Of Man
kato as aforesaid.
FOurM-Said party of the first part
shall also do all the pumping of water
with the machinery and power above
designated in this contract for said city
and for the purposes heretofore designa-
ted in this contract and shall furnish at
all times sufficient water for all pipe
that the said city of Mankato shall lay
within its corporate limits not higher
however than fifth street, in said city,
provided however that if the pipe furn.
ished by the said city of Mankato shall
be less than twelve inches in diameter
the quantity of water to be furnished
shall depend on the size Of said pipe
used.
Flth-In case the city of Mankatc
desires to use water for domestic OF
other uses than heretofore designated in
this agreement, then the party of the
first part will furnish the power and do
the pumping of water sufficient to sup
ply said city of Mankato for said pur,
pose or purposes, for the reasonable ex.
pense of the same, over and above the
expense which will he incurred in fur,
nishing said water, for which a compen.
sation of twenty-five hundred dollars
per annum is to be allowed by the said
city OF Mankato, to party Of first part
as hereinafter designated, such expense
to be agreed upon by the parties to this
agreement, or in case said parties can.
not agree then said expense shall be
determined by three competent and dis.
interested mechanics, one to be chosen
by the Common Council of the said city
of Mankato, one by the party of first
part, aud the third one to be chosen by
each of said parties, provided however
that said expense shall not in any case
exceed the actual cost.
Sirth-And the said city OF Mankatc