The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-01
CONTRACT AWARDED,
y. F. Atkinson Of Marshalltown il
the Successful Bidder.
a HANDSOME BUILDING,

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The New High School Building to be
Ready for Occupancy by January
fifth, 1000.
The bids for building the new high
school were open ed by the school board
Monday and the contract let to the
lowest bidder. j. f. Atkinson, of Mar
shalltown, while his brother, u. AtkiI-
son was the next highest bidder.
There were in all ten bids submitted,
two bysDenison parties and the other
eight were from away. The bids were
all within a remarkably narrow range
for SO large contract, as it is by far
the largest building ever erected in the
county. We give below the bids as
submitted upon the original plans and
specifications, which were as follows:
u H. Olson So 500 90
u. Atkinson Observation-Disclosures. ....... 100000
8. III. Wind. 2l.6S9.OO
j. I. Ketleman. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
]. h. Atkinson Observation-Disclosures. 19,8700O
s. Frank Fee. ............. 25.525,0O
n. O. Laub. ................. 22,5O0.OO
W. E. Hodgin.. Observation-Disclosures. 26,378OO
j. +. Detwiler s. Co....................2 q, $4,000
w. NJ. Rowlan. Observation-Disclosures. 22,95OOO
With such able and experienced
members on the school board tits nee1.
less to say that no mistake has been
made and that one of the very best as
we'll as most economical contracts has
been made that was possible to get and
the city is to be congratulated on its
good fortune and bright prospect in
soon having a high school that will be
the pride of every one and an honor to
our city.
AS has already been said in the RE.
VIEW the building is to be modern in
all its appointments and an ideal home
for the high school. The plans call for
. two story building with large base.
ment in which is to be located the
kindergarten. The extreme length
will be one hundred and eight feet with
= depth Of ninety.six feet. 1t is to front
south on Chestnut street, the large en-
trance to be surmounted with tower
that will be nearly hundred feet
above the grade of the yard.
Means Much For Denison.
The building of the new high school
means much more for the town than
most people think. The time for COM
plotting such contract is short and so
far as Denison mechanics are concern
"a they are all busy now, so it means
that from fifty to sixty outside work
ingmen will find employment in our
town. The boarding houses will be
rushed and many families will likely
move to town. We are indebted to
Contractor Fee for the estimates which
are as follows: The wages to be paid
to the men will be about $4,000, and
much OF tie money for material will be
paid to Denison parties. For instance
it will take about 700, 600 Denison brick
lOO, 900 Omaha repressed brick. 500 bar
rels Of lime, 1000 loads of sand. i car
loads Of cut stone, - car loads OF lum-
Der. From the above figuring it will
be seen that the handling of the ma
terial will be no small item. Mr.. Fee
is also authority for the statement that
it will not only be the largest building
in the county but one of the most hand
some public buildings In western Iowa.
tits the intention to give our readers a
full description of the plan of building
as soon as they are made public.
TOWNS ALONG NEW c. & N. w.
For the information of the general
public the names Of the towns along
the new branch of the Chicago & North
Western railroad are given in rotation
asthey come from Mondamin to Wall
Lake. They are: Orson. Mt. Pisgah,
Preparation, Moorhead, Soldier, Ute,
Burn, Ricketts,, Schleswig, Kiron, Boyer
junction. Weed and Wall Lake.
The new line from Wall Lake to
Denison will run trains from Wall
Lake to Boyer Junction over the same
track, where it will then branch off and
run through Deloit to Denison. The
track is laid from Mondamin to Orson
and construction trains are running
over it.
Miss Lillian Garrison returned last