Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-12-11
new BUILDINGS At FORT.
Contracts That Have Been Awarded
for New Buildings to be Erected
at Fort Lincoln,
Improvements That Have Been Made
at the Fort During the Past
Summer.

Improvement AHat nave 0SeA N4auS
at the Fort During the Past
Summer.
Superintendent Young Gets Commission
to do Some Work in Engineer
ing at Fl. Missoula.
Superintendent of Construction j. L..
Young. in charge of the work at Fort
Lincoln. has received notice of the
Of contracts for the build
to be constructed at the fort un-
der the appropriation made by the q c
of The bids were opened
months ago, and then forwarded
to Washington where the awards were
ordered. There are seven new build
sngs to be erected the coming summer.
work ON which will begin March l
next. P. NJ, Hennessy of Minneapolis
gets the contract for six of the new
buildings. under the following award:
Double captains quarters. $ 20,S17 .46
Double lieut. quarters. 1882 80
Barrack building ........ 2S,O61 80
Guard house ............ 1850. OOl
........ ........ 4.6OS. 9S |
Hospital stewards quar-. 4,166. GA
Other contracts for heating and
plumbing have also been awarded. The
Dwyer Heating and Plumbing COM
pany gets the. contract for the plumb
ing of the officers quarters, the bakery
and the hospital stewards quarters and
also for the heating Of the barracks
and guard house. J. A. Hurley gets
the contract for the plumbing of the
barrack and guard house. W. F. Por-
ter gets the contract for the heating of
the officers quarters and for the gas
piping of all the buildings. The total
OF the plumbing and heating contracts
on all the buildings is about $4,000.
The barrack building will be uniform
with the one already completed and n
of the officers quarters will be larger.
than the present building. With the
completion of the new buildings there
will be sixteen buildings at the fort, all
of brick. modern and u~p4to-date in
construction. Bids were recently
opened for a hospital building to cost
about $4,000. The contract for this
has not yet been awarded.
In addition to the work of building,
many substantial improvements have
been made during the past summer.
Over two miles of gravel surface roads
have been completed about the post
grounds and $500 feet of ordinary sur
face roads. Walks have also been
laid, 200 feet of mine foot walks, LOO
feet of AZ foot walks and LOO feet OF
3 foot walks. The walks extend from
the officers quarters around to the bar
rack and from there to the commits
sary storehouse and non-commissioned
officers quarters. Stone crossings
have been laid also at road intersec-
tons "A cemetery 300 feet square
has been laid out and will in the spring
be enclosed with a handsome iron
fence With the new buildings, which
will be completed about the first of
September next, there will be accom-
modations for. two companies in bar
racks, and with an additional barrack
building a battalion might be accom-
mOdated at the fort.
Supt. Young has been selected by the
department to go to Fort Missoula and
make a survey and profile Of the sewer
system to be installed there and also
ito make plans for the reconstruction
of the water system. He leaves Sat
urday and will take his force of assist
ants here, Messrs. Farr and Weidle,
The work will require two weeks and
Mr.. Young will then return to Bis
marck and complete his work here
His selection from the force of engin-
GERS to take charge of this work is q
tribute to the departments apprecia-
tion of his engineering skill.
J Col. Pond was in the city yesterday
and inspected the work done at the
g post, returning asst night. 1t is prob
able that Col. Pond will be transferred
: to the Pacific coast in the near future
a move that will be regretted through
. the northwest, where Col. Pond i!
, popular and a valuable man in tn,
quartermasters department.
Some delicious fresh rock cod at thu
Peoples Meat Market. Try it.