The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-07-06
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1900.

rlUCH ADO The esteemed Kalispell
ABOUT Inter Lake raises great
NOTHING. hue and cry about the
way in which the affairs of the county
are being managed, or mis- managed, and
points to certain piece of bridge work
near Kalispell in justification of the
rumpus it raises
After long ble-columned, scare
headed, nonpareil- bordered recitation of
alleged facts, the Inter Lake gravely
asserts that there are decided reasons for
suspecting that the board of county
commissioners is permitting, aiding and
abetting a wholesale robbery of tax
payers. Now the Bee would not for
moment insinuate that the true reason
for the Inter Lakes perturbed state of
mind is that rival sheet has the county
printing or that majority of the board
of commissioners are democrats while
the Inter Lake is republican. The Inter
Lake is unquestionably above such petty
feelings where the honesty and integrity
of good citizens, republican or demo
cratic, is in question. The Bee is i'm
PEELED to the belief that the Inter Lake
has simply been the victim of the conf
dence game of some one with an axe to
grind and that it will hasten to retract
when confronted with true statement
of the facts in the case.
The particular case to which the Inter
Lake refers is what is known as the
"coulee bridge" about Il mile south of
town. where, it says, $3.50 were paid for
the laying of 16 perches of stone; that
S:'G would have been a liberal charge for
the work and that consequently Flathead
county has been overcharged about 500.
The facts are these:
Measuring the rock by the load at two
and one half perches per load there were
over 80 perches of stone used in the con
struction of the bridge. This stone cost
GO cents perch making total of $4S.
The hauling of the rock occupied two
teams for five and one half days at $4
per day at Il total cost for hauling OF $44.
One team was occupied for five and one
half days hauling sand, lime, water and
rock on a stone boat at cost Gf 500. 1t
took two masons four days and two
helpers four and one half days to lay the
rock at cost of S6O.25. There were
100 pounds of lime used at Il cost of
SIT. These are the amounts, making IL
total of $l9l. % actually paid out by M.
B. Greig who was contractor for the
work. The balance of $:}S.75 represents
the wages of superintendent for Mr..
HIClS. WI. NIlClS doSSluS UlldU ny ultiSoIi
measure the stone laid amounts to over
100 perches instead of only 16 perches as
asserted by the Inter Lake. The cost OF
laying that amount of rock at the Inter
Lakes own estimate of S}6 for l6 perches
would be about $50, leaving $40 for the
cost of the rock, lime, hauling, etc. Or
this basis, assuming that the Inter LAX,
would have to pay as much as anybod.
else for rock, lime hauling, etc, it woult
have cost the taxpayers about $3.50 t.
have had the Inter Lake do the worl
instead of Mr.. Greig, who did it for S2N
AS matter of fact. assuming that MI
Greig's figures are correct, and he offer
to make oath to Them the county com
missioners have saved the taxpayer
about $50 by having Mr.. Greig do tn
work on the 'coulee bridge" instead G
having the Inter Lake do it.
Perhaps the Inter Lake has been tn
more easily imposed upon by reason {
the fact that considerable of the ston
work is beneath the surface where
can not be seen. The total cost of tn
"coulee bridge" was $113O. The Be
ventures the assertion, based on person;
observation, that there is not anoth,
county in Montana where the same wor
could have been done for any less none
MONTANA The national demo
AT racy has bowed to Il
KANSAS CITY. golden calf at Kans'