The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-04
AWARDED THE CONTRACT
Arnold Mickels Will Build Road
From Lincoln to Helmville.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
A Petition From the Big Blackfoot Mill
ing Company for a Reduction
OF $4,000 on Timber
Land Denied.

The board of county commissioners
held two session yesterday. sitting both
as commissioners and as a board of
equalization.
Three bid for constructing IL miles of
wagon road between Lincoln gulch and
Helmville along the Little Blackfoot
river, were received. The road is to be
constructed to afford an outlet for the
farmers of Lincoln gulch. The bids
were as follows: John Matheson. 81, 175;
william Harkins, $500; Arnold Mick
els, $3.50.
The board accepted the bid of Mick
els and the county surveyor was au-
thorized to enter into a contract with
him for constructing the road. Mickels
is required to put up a bono of $4,000
to insure the faithful performance of
his part of the contract. The board is
to pay him SIS per mile each month, I'M
til the acceptance of the road.
]. NJ. Hartwell was appointed justice
of the peace of Cottonwood ownship to
succeed John Y. Batterton.
A petition was received asking that
a WACO road be opened from a point in
the northern part of section IS. own
ship II, north of range Il west. and run
ming thence in a westerly direction, fol-
lowing the right bank of Bear gulch, to
a point on the county line between Deer
Lodge and Granite counties in section
1, township IL, north of range Is west.
The proposed road is 16 miles in length
and runs from Helmville to Garnet.
The new road will cut to 16 miles a cir
cuitous roa A miles long, which is
now used.
An order was made %refunding j. X.
I'M go Z = 81 $50 ~
lected in 1890 and 1891 on 80 acres of
patented placer ground.
James Whalen and Mrs. Weinerstrand,
paupers were allowed So and $40 month
ly, respectively.
AS a board of equalization the COM
missioners heard the petition of the Big
Blackfoot Milling company for a re-
duction in the assessment placed upon
its timber lands in this county. The as
SCISSORS figures place the value of the
land at an average of 81 per acre, while
the company believed that a just valua-
ton would be 1910 per acre. There are
1887 "A acres of timber land in Deer
Lodge county belonging to the Big
Blackfoot company, upon which the
company's figures placed a total valua-
ton of $67, 260.16. The petition asked for
a reduction of about ST., 600.
The Big Blackfoot ompany was rep
resented by Attorney Il. c. Marshall of
Missoula and G.. w. Fenwick, manager
of the company. Assessor George $.
Miller also addressed the board, main
tanning that his figures were reasonable
and just. The board finally allowed
the assessment to stand at the asses
sor's figures.
The Big Blackfoot company also own
1,400 acres of land in the county from
which the timber has been cut and
which is assessed at 60 cent per acre, a
total of 1914.
The east half of the west half of sec
ton 35, township 16, north of range 10
west. comprising $50 acres, assessed at
81 per acre, a total of $500; the south
west quarter of section Is, township 10,
north of range IA west, $640, n section
II. township Is, north of range Ia west,
1850, were ordered stricken from the
rolls, as the land has been classified as
mineral. This was also assessed TO the
Big Blackfoot Milling company.
Several petition are yet to be heard
and acted upon and the board will be
in session again to-day.