Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-05-01
|ETEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Il Amount Absolutely Necessary to
Complete and Furnish the Cen
tral School House.
n Election to Be Held the Twenty
third Day Of May-The
Figures.

be school trustees of district No. |
an adjourned meeting Saturday
hing, all trustees except S. B. Robbins
pg present
hartman Repath, from the building
mittee, reported that that committee
the finance committee had met
tly and each committee had en-
vored to ascertain what would be the
est figure at which the Central build
could be completed. Architect
lie had submitted estimates and
* Cauheld, statements, which the
mittees had canvassed; the commit
had also visited and examined the
ding; from their labors they had
piled statement which they be-
ed to be correct.
cKay Bros, the original contractors,
let sub contracts, on which some
ments had been made. The exact
UNITS yet to be paid to the sub.con
tors, when they shall have completed
contracts, are as follows:
bseph Baines e. Co., Sl,927 GA; James
honlin, 5,249 SO; William j. Winters,
81 so; Gust. G. Minter & Co., SCOT AS;
man Wildekopf, Sl,683; Great Falls
Works, S54.5l; Murphy. Maclay a.
s5429l; total, Sll, ,33297.
pncreting the basement floor will
$500; vestibule tile, S125; balance on
ting contract, $74O; balance on
mbing contract, 50, ,296.25; electric
ng, balance, $50; balance due Andy
hderson, account of extras, S242. .65;
nce due j. II. Donlin, account of
las, s154.6O; total, 81, 1850.
ever connections will cost at least
boo; blackboards, $1,000; total $4,000.
'he cost, therefore, of completing the
lding will be the sum OF sl1, 1882 81,
Ss, 80 and 80 800, which is S1S,32l.47.
furnishing the building will cost
BOO; superintendence of construction,
BOO; total, 1850. The additional cost
the building, furnished, will be
/, (,92l.47.
But from this sum. should be de-
tted $500, the amount which has
kn deposited as security for costs in a
/ in Chicago, and 500, the balance in
building fund. This being deducted,
amount required to complete and
rneh the building would be Sl9,30l AZ.
Chairman Warden, from the finance
reported that that committee
d checked the items in the building
report and found them, in
e main, accurate. The finance com.
ittee, however, believed that furniture
~ IN no n
lidiug committee estimated; ana per-
lps other items, which might bs desir-
be but perhaps not absolutely neces-
Try. might be temporarily omitted. The
banCe Committee believed that $4,000
build complete and furnish the build
6. although perhaps not as completely
should be done; but the committee
eved that, under the circumstances,
5000 should be the amount asked for
After the matter had been thoroughly
scUsscd, Warden, seconded by Holmes,
owed that there be special election
Id saturday, May %, at which cleo
m the question should be submitted,
lether or not the district should issue
Jer cent, straight 2Oyear, building
njs, to all amount not to exceed
1900,
The motion was unanimously carried.
hartman Repath also reported, from
9 building committee, the status of
Kay Bros. account with the district.
)n their original contract, the bal
oe due is S4,77G "a; they are credited
tn 81, 500, for wall, in lieu of speci,
d footings; with S2,4l1.94, extras on
ne work by Baines: and with 5l29.G7
d water ditch-total, 50, l23. 81.
IN subcontracts the amour. to be
arged against Mckay Bros. is SILL
, q; for concreting, 5000; for vestibule
g, $l25; for footings and beams,
9i3 81. Total. 5li,91l2S.
When the building shall have been
mpleted Mckay Bros. will owe the dis
ict at least S5,S27 43. If their bond is
any value, which is very doubtful, the
card may sue on it and recover the
hortage.
The board adjourned until next Sat
rday evening.