Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-20
NEW FIRE HOUSE
]. A. Riddell Awarded the Con-
tract to Build It.
SEWER FOR WEST SIDE
To be Built in MiSSOula Gulch, From
Quartz Street to Mercury Alley
Minor Business.

At last nights meeting of the city coun-
ell the contract for the construction or
the new fire station was awarded to j.
A. Riddell, and construction will begin at
once. MI. Riddell's bid was $9,713. Other
bids were as follows: Benoit & Whiteway.
$40. 239; John T. Hogan, $10,S2O: Strunk &
Mayotte, 80. 765; p. p. Wakeman, $10.491;
Thomas Rowan, $1O.1 100; Nj. d. McSherry,
$40. 1896.
A petition praying for the s%prinkling of
the west side of Montana street, betWee
Quartz and Copper streets, was granted.
An ordinance directing the board of
health to contract with some hospital for
the care of emergency cases was read and
referred.
A communication from City Attorney
Lamb, showing the status of various le-
gal matters in which the city is interest
ed, was read and referred.
The petition Of George Beck, for W
tax rebate, and the petition of William
Hollett, stating that his horses had been
impounded through no fault Of his. and
skiing that the pound fees paid by him
be refunded, We're read and referred.
The bill Of Chef Small for $50 additional
salary as deputy treasurer for May and
June was referred.
The council voted to pay the Austin
company's bill of 81, Ais for street sweeper,
sprinklers and dump wagons as soon as
the files an agreement to make
some necessary alterations IN tHe
sweeper.
The bonds of Albert Rutton and James
Brown. scavengers, were read. Rutter's
bond was approved and Browns referred.
The judiciary committee reported as
follows:
II. They have had under consideration
council bill No. 10. a bill for an ordinance
granting a right-of-way along and under
all the streets, alleys, avenues public
grounds and other public ways of the city
Of Butte to the Montana Heating & Ven
tilating company, for the purpose of lay
ing pipes and mains in the city of Butte
for heating and power purposes, and ask
for further time in which to make their
report.
20. They have had under consideration
the petition of Mary Ann Sloan skiing
for a refund of a forfeited bail bond, n
upon investigation we are of the opin-
ion that the conditions of the bond We're
complied with, and therefore recommend
that a warrant be drawn upon the emer-
gency fund in the sum of $25, payable to
Mary Ann Sloan
The report was adopted.
The reports Of the license committee,
building and light. finance, fire and water
and street and alley committees, as pub
lished in the Inter Mountain of yesterday
We're adopted.
There were no objections to the con-
struction of a sanitary sewer on Galena
street. from Oklahoma to Gaylord street,
and the resolution for the construction OF
the sewer was adopted.
The fencing abou the old city corral
was sold to Joseph Silver for $50.
The city engineer was instructed to
cause sign-boards to be placed on the
city limits. where railroads enter the city,
bearing the following inscription: CITY
4 limits. Slow Down to eight miles an hour
The ordinance creating a sprinkline
district of Dublin street. from Ferns
store to the city limits, was passed.
The council bill requiring %peddlers tc
adorn their vehicles with duplicate num-
bers on either side was passed.
Ar ordinance amending the license law
was introduced and referred to the ways
and means and judiciary committee.
The final m of Oren & Barsder
for the lower Main street sewer for S., 35'
was read and ordered paid, as was also
the Anal estimate of H. M. Sanfield 70
$699. so for storm drains and catch basins
The report of the city engineer, to tn,
effect that the construction Of a propOset
sewer in Idaho alley was not practicable
was read He recommended that tn
sewer be built to Gold street, and his re
port was referred to the committee
The city engineer was instructed t.
prepare and submit an estimate Of tn,
cost of extending the main outlet SeWe
to a point below the Colorado smelter.
On motion of Alderman Bryant tn
health officer was directed to abate tn
nuisance caused by the open drain OF
the Hesperus and Hickey lodes.
The street commissioner was directe'
to have the sidewalk on Covert stree
relaid to grade.
The sidewalk on East Broadway wa
ordered mov into line.
The council authorized the placing o
a telephone in the city corral.
A s%tandpipe at the corner of Main ant
Woolman was ordered removed furthe
north on Main street.
Bids for plumbing for the new engin
house We're opened, as follows: Silve
Bow Plumbing company, S54S: w. j. Kill
leen, $634.3S Eschle Plumbing company
$s4S: l. Kruger, S 1880. The contract va
let to the Silver Bow Plumbing com
pany.
Bids for the construction of the exten
sions of the Missoula gulch storm sewe
We're opened, as fOllows: c. J. McSherry
for stone and brick work.. per perch, 1886
for ~eXcavating, As cents per cubic yard
VIM. Harkins & CO., $685. and 80 cents
F. F. Kelley, $4.4O and As cents: Perhan
Bros, $4.17 and 40 cents; James Ryan
$4.12 and As cents: Benoit & Whiteway
$4.10 and 80 cents: T. r. Kinds, $4.07 an
40 ents; j. A. Riddell, 81. 33 and 40 cents
Thomas Rowan, So 50 and 50 cents; T. f
Philbin, 81 and so cents.
The bids for the extension Of the Buff
falo gulch sewer We're the same as thos
submitted on the Missoula gulch sewer
Wa but two exceptions. F. F. kelle!