The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-07-06
progress made on Court House
Rui1dinp.


To the Police Jury of the Parish Of
St. Mary:
Gentlemen The following are the
proceedings of the Court House Build
ing Committee, June 9th, 1907.
The bids on structural iron and steel
work for the ST. Mary Parish Court
House we're opened and considered.
A. Moresi Company, Jeanerette, La.
1892. 35.
Chattanooga Roofing & Foundry
Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn, S4Ol40O.
Christopher & Simpson Foundry
Co., St. Louis, Mo-, S5446. 90.
AS the A. Moresi Co., were the
lowest bidders and thoroughly reliable.
it was decided to award the contract to
them. This is in line with our former
estimate.
The bids for stone work were then
considered and were as follows:
The Bedford Cut Stone Co., Bed
ford, Ind, s7326.OO.
Brooks-Curtis Stone Co., Bedford.
Ind, S6865.9O
Bowling Green White Stone Co..
Memphis Junction, KY, S7S49.43.
AS the BrOOks-Curtis Stone Co..
to award the contract to them. This
does not include the arches. which it
was first decided to build of brick, but
the brick arches are very expensive
and will cost about $llOO including
brick, to do this work, and the Brooks
Curtis Stone Co.. offer to furnish the
stone cut to fit for $3.50 in place of the
brick arches. 1t was decided to award
this job to them also. This brings the
stone work up to S76l5 which is still
below the bid of one of their COM
petitOrs.
1900 bbls. of Portland cement have
been ordered from the Carolina Port
land Cement Co., at 1898 per Dbl. F.
0. B. Franklin, La, 800 bbls of Lime
have been ordered from the same COM
pany at 81. 10 per Dbl. F. o. B. Frank
lin, La. We ha We also ordered from
Avery Island 1000 vds of sand. This
we figured to cost about $l.7O to $3.50
per yard on the ground. but as the
cars have been SO much over this
measure, we find that we have received
a total of 49, yards at a cost of 1853. 40
making the sand cost less than S140
per yds. 1t may be that the shipper
will not ship such large cars some
times, but he is compelled by agree
ment to ship not less than 800 Gu. #.
If he falls back to this, our sand will
cost sl.75 per yd.
We have also ordered the press
brick for the outside of walls from the
Sibley Menge Press Brick Co., of
Birmingham, Ala. This will take
200 Buff brick. 1900 Flash Grade
!, Shade COS. These brick will cosa
for the Buff $3.50 per NJ For the
Flash $3.50 per M. 1t will cost an
additional 1925 per NJ. to get them
hauled from the depot to the building
site.
We have bid on the Terra Gotta
about $4,000 cheaper than the lowest
bid we had month ago and hope to
get a still lower bid.
We have 255 of the foundation piles
driven and as we are now very well
equipped, we expect to drive the re-
naming lab piles by July 9Th. We
have had considerable trouble about
this; we found that cypress piling
would not stand being driven in such
hard ground with drop hammer, We
sent and got our 5 ton steam hammer
only to find after week that our
boiler was too small. We have now
secured another boiler and expect to
wind up very troublesome job in
a few days. We will then start ex-
cavating and putting in concrete.
We expect during the next 30 days
to have sufficient number of bids on
the sash, doors, frames, steamheating,
Terra Gotta, galvanized iron and other
roof work to justify you in letting
these contracts.
We also have 337 900 of the common
brick on the ground for the inside
walls.
Respectfully,
J. A. PETERMAN, Chairman.
Report received and ordered |
The treasurer of the Franklin |
drainage district appeared before
the Jury and desired to turn over
the cancelled bonds and state
The whole matter was turned
over to the Chairman of the finance
and on motion duly
seconded, the chairman of the
finance committee was authorized
to check up Mr.. Palfrey and re-
ceipt to him for the bonds.
Adopted.
On motion of VIM. N. Gooch,
duly seconded, Mr.. John Rochel
was elected beneficiary cadet to
The State University of Baton
Rouge, provided he can enter the
University proper.
On motion duly seconded the
Police Jury went into reorganiza-
ion, by electing j. A. Peterman,
President, Rudolf Hanf, Secretary
and w. H. Latham as Public
Printer-he designated the st.