The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-29
BEFORE THE BOARD
School Trustees Devote an Evening to
Committee Reports.
ABOUT M'KAY'S ESTIMATE
The New Temple of knowledge
Will Have In Its Archives
Some interesting Bits OF
Early History.

Great Falls. May 2s.-At last nights
special meeting of the school board
all trustees were present
All routine business was dispensed
with. and Chairman Holmes announced
that the board would proceed 10 the
consideration OF the investigating COM
mittee's report Hanks said that, to
get the matter directly before the
board. he would move that the Lass es-
innate of Mckay Bros, the contrac-
tors, for S1,954.S0, be allowed, and that
the board do not consider the report of
the investigating committee. At the
request of Gockstetter, Hanks divided
his motion. and the former seconded
the motion to allow the estimate.
Cooper opposed the motion. He con-
tended that. according to Chief Engi-
neer Repath, who made his measure
ments in the same manner in which
Architect White made his. and Gecuct-
ing from the amount claimed 10y Nc
Kay the value of the concrete and
stone footings omitted from the extra
foundations, there was q balance due
the district. Accepting Whites figures
as approximately correct. and deduct
ing the value of the labor and material
omitted. the balance due the contrac-
tors was less than $400
Hanks said the value of the cmis-
slons should not be deducted from the
estimate under consideration, as il was
claimed on the extra contrast. while
the omissions were from the original
contract. Cooper replied that they
should not wait and deduct from the
roof the value of footings omitted
from the foundation. Holmes said that
no one denied that the value of the
omissions should be deducted from the
original contract price; the question
was simply as TO the proper time to
make such deductions. Raban said
that In arriving at the amount due the
contractors the figures submitted by
Architect Anderson and City Engineer
Swearingen should be considered; he
thought that Mckay had been already
overpaid
White said that Anderson and
Swearingen had taken their measure
ments in different manner from his.
Repath had measured i'm only a dozen
places, and yet Repath's estimate of
the value of the work done is only
1854 below his. and Repath admits that
MS figures are approximate.
After discussing at length the figures
submitted by the several experts and
heretofore published in the Standard
the question was put on Hanks mo-
ton to allow the estimate. The vote
resulted: Yeas-Hanks. Gockstetter.
Luckett, Holiness. Nays-Cooper, Ra-
ban, Poole-3
did I'm order to enable Mckay Bros. 10
pay their employees. He believed the de-
auctions for omissions could be made
i'm the future.
Architect White said that if the work
was to continue he desired the board
TO appoint an inspector of the building
"a man that could be on the ground
every minute. Much Office work was
required of himself. and this was the
cause OF some faulty construction. No
action was taken by the board.
cooper said that, in his opinion, Nc
Kay Bros bond was invalid. The con-
tract first made by Mckay Bros. was
conditioned upon the legality of the
$4,000 bonds issue. These were de-
clared invalid. No new contract was
made, but the board had probably rat
ihed the old one by permitting work
To continue. But this did not ratify
the old bond. He moved that McKay
Bros. be required to furnish. within 10
days. good and sufficient bond i'm the
sum of $4,000. with two sureties. Ra-
ban said that Il. ID. Hatcher. one Of
McKay's bondsmen, had told him pub
hcly that he believed McKays bond
was invalid and that he hoped to God
II was. Raban seconded Cooper's mo-
tion. Luckett said that Hatcher had
told him that he considered McKay's
bond invalid.
Holmes said that an attorney had adj
Nised him that the bond was valid.
Gockstetter said that Judge Pomeroy
nad so advised him. Hanks said that
IL was the opinion of Senator Thomas
IL. Carter that the bond was valid.
On Coopers motion the vote stood:
neas-Cooper, Poole, Raban. Luckett-
4. Nays-Hanks. Gockstetter-2. The
motion was declared carried and the
meeting adjourned