The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-07-10
TO BUILD CITY HALL
City Council Let Contract for Erection
OF City Hall--Wll Cost Over
$4O,O0O.OO.
Milwaukee Road 0flcialS Here on q
Short YiSit-LOOked Over Site
for New Depot.
Adjutant General Conklin AppropFiates
Money TO Provide Armory for
Local Militia Company.
CITY HALL CONT RAG! LET

lily HALL Jun RAC! LII
After Many Delays the New City
Hall Contract Was Let to
Fred B%jordstrop.
The regular meeting of the city
council! was held Monday evening
and all the members were present,
with Mayor Silsby presiding. The
minutes of the regular and special
meetings were read by Auditor
Markham and were approved.
The reports of the city officers
were first taken up. Justice McKin-
ley reported a good deal Of business
in his justice shop. The amount of
fines assessed during the month Of
June was $144. IS; the amount Of fines
paid was S83. 40; the court fees were
1874. IS. City Treasurer Kibbee re-
ported that there was S12, 924. IA in
the treasury, divided among the
funds as follows: General, s11, 5O7.-
SO; cemetery, 1926. 10; sinking, ST.
189. SO. Welghmaster Mcdonald re-
ported that his receipts for the
month Of June were $50. 80.
The bills against the city were
taken up and some time was spent in
the discussion Of one or two bills,
which were cut slightly in amounts.
The total amount of the bills for the
preceding month reached the sum of
81, 1851. 70. OF this sum over $500 was
for the extension of water mains, and
quite a good sum of money vas spent
on making Improvements in the
streets of the city.
Alderman Hannett introduced a
resolution at this point. which car
ried, that nc committee Of the coun-
Gil be authorized to expend to exceed
s25 without authority from the coun-
Gil.
The bids for supplying the city
with coal for the coming year were
opened. There we're three or four
outside bidders, and the contract
was awarded to the Peavey Elevator
90. per its agent, James Grace. The
rate to be paid is 1886 per ton, t o.
b. Mitchell, for Illinois coal, the
kind that has been in use for the
past year.
G. E. VermilYea appeared before
the council with a request for per-
mission to erect a frame building
with corrugated iron on his lot on
the alley in the rear of the First
National bank. Mr.. Vermilyea ex-
poets to commence the erection of a
bowling alley within a very short
time. He stated to the council that
he did not know that the building
would be built of corrugated iron,
that he was figuring on using ce-
ment blocks, but wanted the privil-
eye Of using iron in case he did not
contract for cement.
Bids were opened for the con-
struction of the city hall. Before
either OF the two bids wera opened the
council decided to 60 into secret ses-
sion and other persons were excluded
from the room. Bids were submitted
by A. J. Kings and Fred Bjodstrup,
and both included the use Of cement
and stone for constructive material.
1t developed that in the use Of Gem
ent the building could be directed a
little over So, 1000 cheaper than if
stone was used. The contract was
awarded to Fred Bjodstrup, and
Sioux Falls granite selected for the
material. The contract price was
not made public at this time owing
to some possible changes being made
in other material in the building,
but the amount will exceed $40, 900.
While the council at one time de-
cided to erect the city hall of Gem
ent the members decided to coincide
with the public and finally changed
the constructive material to granite.
There was a fear on the part of
many that cement would not be as
lasting as stone, inasmuch as the
former in many instances was re-
garded more as an experiment. The
cement is used quite literally by
the government in constructive
work and In many parts of the
country houses and buildings are
being erected.
The contract will be signed ur
within a few days by Mr.. Biodstrul
and the committee Of the council