The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-09
BRIDGE TO Be OF STEEL
Commissioners Let Contract for
a Substan tial Structure.
OVER THE BIG BLACKFOOT
Puebla Bridge Company tho Successful
Bidder-Cost of the New Bridge to
Be Three Thousand Dollars,
To Be Done April l.

| Not a bridge of wood but one of steel,
| by the county across the Big Blackfoot
| river at the mouth of Lincoln canyon.
This the county commissioners decided
yesterday when they opened the bids
for the bridge and considered the adj
vantages of the several structures pro-
posed by the bidders.
The contract for the work was let to
the Pueblo Bridge company, which was
represented by George c. Bullen. Three
thousand dollars is the contract price
and the work is to be completed by
April l, 1900.
The bridge is to be a stub span on
steel piers. Each pier is to consist of
two steel cylinders 80 inches in dame
ter and eight feet long. The steel OF
these cylinders is to be one-quarter of
an inch thick and the tubes are to be
lap jointed and securely riveted with
five-eighths inch rivets. The beam be-
tween the cylinders is to be set on
concrete pedestals and filled with con-
crete.
The same bidder also offered to con-
struct combination span on pile piers
for $4,000 but the more substantial
structure met the approval of the board
The Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron
works represented by A. Rohr, offered
TO construct an all steel bridge with
tubular pins for $3.50, and o. T.. Pep
pard of Missoula bid to construct a
wooden bridge for 81, 800, and combi-
nation steel and wood bridge for 81, 767
Between the steel bridge proposed by
the Missouri Valley company and the
one proposed by the successful bidder
there was a difference of only SOL,
but the material offered by the Pueblo
company was much heavier and more
substantial, and a better bridge
throughout was offered; hence the ac-
ceptance of the higher bid.
The new bridge will benefit a con-
siderable and a growing section Of the
county. A ford exists near the site
of the new bridge, but in times of high
water the people living in the vicinity
have to make a detour of more than
seven miles to find a crossing.
The contract is to be drawn at once
A bond Of $4,000 for the completion of
the work is to be put up by the con-
tracing firm.
There was so much business before
the commissioners yesterday that they
did not reach the matter of opening
bids for the care of the sick and poor.
and providing medical attendance and
medicines for county cases. The board
is TO be IN session to-day ana MONDAY
and Tuesday.
County Clerk Martins report. pre-
scented yesterday to the commissioners.
shows that his office during the three
| months ending Nov. so, earned in fees
$967.S5,-a sum which is considered eX-
| exceptionally large.
The quarterly report of Clerk of the
| Court Corcoran showed his office had
| collected in the same period, 1854. That
| of the sheriff showed fee collections in
| his office to have been S201.62.
A large number of bills We're approx
| ed yesterday, among them being the
! following: st. Joseph's hospital for care
| of poor for the year, S1,699.2S; st. AIMS
| hospital for care of sick and poor for
| the quarter, $342.24; w. E. Pinegar for
| services as county surveyor in No
vember, 500: Dr. H. w. Stephens, sal
airy as county physician for the quar-
| ter 1914 80