Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-11-18

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Fred A Meyer. printing. ............. 81 30
I9wn p Bl MGoa com on 5
| G e Anderson. TAX children to st home 80 "a
Arch Brown bridge com............... % 80
T W Bishop M d, med ser and board. 9 20
| Henry Klienhammer, wrk at asylum. 1877 81
| A e Cooley road com ................. 8 &c
| A III NOdolf, road com .................. 10 80
| r T. Clearly super of assessment. $50. 149 70
| John M Gardner, Co com. % 70
| r D Nagle Co com Observation-Disclosures. IA 40
| John Dechow. board for jury 90
| E H Hyde lobor and repairs. SO
| Baxter & Draper, mdse AZ go
| Chas Orton transcript of testimony. 10 90
| F w Klinkhammer road com......... 20 81
| A G Stepens, road com ...... Z Sc
| los Sikhart road com % 81
| S w Doolittle, ex insane. ...... -. Is go
| Village of Cuba City. irons pauper.... 05
prisoners .......... Is 90
| L Brown com on home and asylum. IS so
| l. G. Armstrong. ex insane. ...... :. 40
| Ed Pollock. printing ......... SO 80
J. Barnett, bus to asylum ;.......:.. 90
| w j Hannum. ser short bond reporter so
| John Kelly, road com Observation-Disclosures. 40
To the Hon. Board of Supervisors of Grant
| Co., WiS.-Gentlemen; Your committee on
general claims beg leaves to report as
The whole number of claims presente d
was one hundred and forty.
| We have given them the best and most
| careful consideration that time would
| permit, AMI have allowed or disallowed
them in whole, or in part as appears in
tabulated statement which is returned
herewith. and made part of this report:
Total. amt of claims presenteds 50 6S9, II l.
allowed g. sos 20 %
{" diSallOwed- :. =. ,O20.42
Respectfully submitted.
| (Signed by Conn.,
On motion of Mr.. Birkett report
was adopted.
The report of the asylum water
works and lighting system was pre-
scented by Mr.. Wells as follows:
To the Hon. Co. Board of Supervisors Of
| Grant Co-Your committee to whom was
referred the construction of waterwcrks,
| heating and lightning plant for the Grant
| county asylum, would respectfully report:
| That we have completed the work which
| at the last session of the board was in prog
ress, and have established and there is now
| in operation upon the county farm water
| works system of sufficient capacity to furn-
ish all of the water that is ordinarily need
| ed for the running of the institution, and in
| case of emergency to furnish all of the wa
| ter that may be needed promptly. There is
| on hand at all times a supply OF water
amounting to sixty thousand gallons, with
| a head sufficient to throw One-1nch stream
| of w1ter over any and every building on the
| premises; and so arranged that every build
| ing on the premises can be reached by two
| such streams of water at the same time
i most of the buildings being so situate with
| reference to the hydrantS that from four to
eight streams are available at the same
| time. We have supplied sufficient hose of
| the very best make to protect all OF these
| buildings, and with the assistance of the
| Lancaster fire department, hose can be on
| the ground at a very short notice to fully
| protect every building on the premises. The
! quantity of the water is limitleSS, as no
amount of pumping that we have been able
| to do has ever lowered the water percept-
| IDLY in the well. The quality of the water
| is first class, and it has been demonstrated
| that the polluted water from the upper
| strata which furnishes the water supply for
| the old wells has been effectualIy shut out
1 of ar-11 sod
| on the premises is taken entirely from the
new well, al danger from the use of contain
mated water will be entirely removed.
| We have completed the laundry by Install
| ing such laundry machinery as seemed to
| be necessary. The machinery that we have
supplied is of the very best make and has
proven itself to be first class in every re-
| spect. We have also installed steam heat
ing plant WHICH beats the power mouse ana al1el
| laundry and furnishes a sufficient quantity
! of steam to the laundry for drying purposes.
F., Your committee believes that it is unneC-
essary to go into detalled 6ePort al TINS inns
| works, laundry and heating plant. TOR the
reason that the cost was fully reported IN
| our last years report, and to do so would be
| simply to repeat what was said then. With
| this report we submit to the board such con-
| tracts as we made with contra ctOrS and 9TH
er parties for both machinery and labor. to-
gether with vouchers showing that we have
| paid in full for all machinery that is on the
ground and al labor necessary for the in
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| already examined the plant and has report
| ed favorably upon it. as we are informed.
We have not installed any lighting plant,
nor have we contracted with any person or
company for the installing of the same. We
have gone no farther in the matter than to
make thorough study of the lighting prop
osition, and to make plans for the installing
of a lighting plant that should be adequate
to the needs of the institution. We regret
exceedingly that at the time of making this
report we are obliged to proceed without
the presence and assistance OF Mr.. A. L.
Brown member the committee, who is
prevented from being with US at this time
by very severe illness in his family. Mr..
Brown had made an especial study OF the
lighting proposition. and is better htted to
make areport upon it than either OF the oth-
committee has at all times endeavored to
act together in all things.
In explanation as to why we have not al
ready installed lighting plant, let US brief
ly call your attention to the matter that was
originally submitted to US. Some years ago
the state board of control had urged the
installation of some system of lighting that
should do away with the necessity OF kero-
sene lamps When the matter first came
before your committee, an electric. light
plant had been established at the city OF
lancaster The proprietor of the plant had
been before the board discussin with it the
feasibility of conducting electricity from
the Lancaster plant to the asylum for the
purpose of lightning it. The. opinion pre-
vailed that electricity could be conducted
from Lancaster to the county farm SO as to
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institution.
The first step taken by the committee
toward the lighting of the institution was to
ascertain just what could be expected from
the electric light plant at Lancaster We
learned that with the system of lighting
that was then in vogue in Lancaster, 1e., the
direct current system, was practically i'm
possible to convey the current so great
distance from the plant and have it effect
i've. We then turned our attention to the in
Sailing of an electric light plant at the in
stitution. We corresponded with and had
sentatives of several of what we considered
| the most responsible manufacturers of cleo
] trio lighting machinery, and also with insti
| tutions using similar machinery to that
which would necessarily be used at the
county farm. We aScertained the cost of
such a plant and estimated as tar as pos
| sible the cost of running it. We also en-
deavored to ascertain what guarantee we
| could get from any company as to the effci-
ency of such proposed plant; and we were
| surprised to learn that we could getn 9TH
er guarantee than that their machinery was
| m nj OOO1 material and a