The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-19
Will Be Located on Second Avenue
East and Third Street.
COMMITTEE REPORT ACCEPTED
The Proposition Submitted by MIR.
Conrad Was Rejected and the Offer
of William Black Deemed the Most
AdvisabIe-Plans and Specifications
Will Soon Be Drawn.

The site for the Carnegie library
has at last been decided upon and
the plans and specifications for the
building will soon be drawn At the
meeting of the city council Wednes-
day night the report of the site COM
mittee was received and adopted and
the corner lot on Second avenue east
and Third street, opposite the Meth
odist church, was decided upon as
the most suitable location.
The matter was not settled with
out considerable discussion, and the
motion to reject the report was only
lost by one vote, the deciding ballot
being cast by Mayor Griffin.
The report of the library commit
tee read as follows:
To the Honorable Board of Alder
men of the City of Kalispell, Mon
tana Gentlemen-We, your com
mittee appointed to investigate site
for library purposes, report in favor
of purchasing 100 feet front on the
corner (southwest) of second avenue
east and Third street, for the sum of
$1,000 The property is owned by
O'Neill and Black, and are lots 1 and
2, block GA. w. H. Griffin, R. e.
Webster, J. r. Listle, Committee.
In explaining the motives of the
committee in selecting the site, Mr..
Griffin told how they had been in cor
respondence with Mr.. Conrad relative
to trading the city's lot on Main
street for the corner lot owned by
MI. Conrad on Second avenue east
and Second street, and in reply to
this offer the committee received the
following:
I Hot Springs, Ark, April 8, 1902
w. H. Griffin, r. e. Webster and J.
R. Listle, Kalispell, Mont: Gentle
manufacturing to your letter of the
3rd ult., l am not willing to trade the
100 feet corner of Second street and
Second avenue east Opposite Mr.
Peeler's house, for the city lots on
Main street I don't care to dispose
of two lots in this block as we may
want the whole half block for some
other purpose later. | am willing
however, to trade you corner of a
100 feet on First street and Second
avenue east. The school district own
one, the southwest corner and the
toWnsite own the other three. You
can have your choice, or, if you pre-
fer, will trade two lots on the corner
just north of the Big Fork electrical
building and south of the West hotel
being the southeast corner of First
street and First avenue. Yours re
specially. G. E. CONRAD.
The committee carefully looked into
the different propositions and decided
to reject the same, as they were
deemed unfavorable to the city's in
terest. William Black had submitted
an offer several weeks ago and the
committee after rejecting Mr.. Con
RAIDS offer took up his proposition
and decided to accept it.
When Mr.. Griffin closed his re
marks, Alderman Burnes moved tina
the report of the committee be re
jected, giving as his reasons that tn
city was already in possession of dit
ferent lots and he did not think 1
, was advisable to purchase others. MI
McIntire seconded the motion afte
considerable discussion and it wa
: put to a vote-Aldermen Gamer an
Listle voting no and Aldermen Burne
and McIntire, aye; the result being
t tie, Mayor Griffin voted no, and tn
r motion was lost.
) The question of how the necessar
funds should be raised to purchas