St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-04
ON COUNTY BUSINESS.
Regular Monthly Proceedings Of
the Board of County COminis-

siOners.
The county commissioners met yes
terday in regular monthly sess' I, but
no business of particular importance
was before them. The matter of i'm
proving Lake Minnetonka was taken
up 50 far as to authorize the attorney
who has the matter in charge to adv
tise the condemnation proceedings by
which the board intends to secure the
dam now owned by the MinnetOnka
Mill company, which has been kept in
such poor repair that the water in the
lake has been materially lowered by
the needless escape of water. The
commissioners have all along been OPP
posed to the construction of bridge
over the Minnesota. on Cedar avenue,
as useless expenditure of money, but
private individual have offered to make
good the loss to the county, and there
was nothing left for the commissioners
to do but to acquieSce. Bids will be adj
vertised for at once.
The first business of consequence that
came up was the final estimate for the
IRON work on the Bloomington Ferry
bridge, furnished by the Wisconsin
Bridge and Iron company, which was
accepted. and the bill, amounting to
$4,47l. was ordered paid.
The committee Oh roads and bridges
was authorized to employ the necessary
help to run the ferry at the new mar
rows during the season Of 1899.
A number of bids for building the
substructure and superstructure Of the
Minnehaha creek bridge were received.
All bids for the SuperStructure were re-
ferred to the committee on roads and
bridges and the bridge engineer, with
power to act. Ring " TObin secured
the contract for putting in the sub
structure. This firm will furnish Ktt-
tie river stone for $3.50 per yard and the
concrete for $3.50 per yard, and 90 the
necessary excavating tor so cents per
yard The Wrought Iron Bridge conf
pany will put up the superstructure for
$50, and the Milwaukee Bridge COM
pany for 1915, they being the only two
bidders.
Caleb Singler and others agreed to
furnish bond of $4,000 to indemnify
the county for loss consequent upon the
opening of Cedar avenue, and the same
was accepted.
Charles A. Mitchell, who printed the
proceedings of the board last year, lost
warrants for S4S5,25 due him in the
Tribune fire, and the county commits
sioners Yesterday Issued him new war
rant on his filing bond of $500, with
L. Swift and A. j. Blethen as SuretleS.
The matter of providing another room
for the judges of the district court over
the addition to be built to the county
treaSurer'S Office was referred to the
committee on public buildings and
grounds, with power to act. 1t is pro-
posed to build this room over the addi-
ton to the treasurer'S office.
Margaret Cameron presented q petit
| ton, which was placed on file, request
| ing that she be appointed tender of the
| Bloomington ferry bridge. She has for
| some time run the furry at that point,
| and now holds license for that work
which does not expire for two years.
! AS she has no other means of support.
and as her property at that point has
| been rendered useless by the cOnStruc-
| ton of the bridge, she desires to be al
| lowed to manipulate the draw Instead
of the boats.
II. A. G. Thompson, overseer of the
county poor farm, presented his re-
| port for the month ending Feb. 2S,
which was accepted. The expendi-
| lures for the month were S606.05, and
the receipts s475.43. There are now
| fifty-seven inmates at the farm.
TWenty-One petitions for the abate-
ment of taxes were presented to the
| board and eighteen were allowed.
L. F. Middleton, proprietor of the
Lake MinnetOnka freight line, pre-
scented a bid offering to do all of the
dump scow towing for the season of
1890 for SIT per day. This was referred
to the committee on lake improve
ments.
There being no other business before
the board, adjournment was taken until
10 a. M, March II.