The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-12-25
That Is All the City Council WIN
Stand For the Bridge.
ALDERMEN TAKE THIS ACTION
Iser Improvement Given an Endor-
ssmsnt. Repair Ice Breakers Ia
psemea Essential.
FROM saturday,s Dally.

i ne. Guy council last Hignl Ftcuhsiu
cred its former action on the second
| bridge proposition and tooA new action
| which, while committing the city tt
| join in building the new bridge, makes
it impossible To involve the city in
more than $4,000 expense. This actor
was practically decided upon ut q pri
| yate meeting held last Tuesday evening
| at Mayor Andrews office, at which 8
number of city officials and Others
We're present.
The matter was brought up last
night after recess, through a motion
| by Aid. Atchison that the motion that
was carried at a special meeting of the
council Nov. is, 1907 which provided
| that the city enter into a contract
jointly with Blue Earth county Ia
build the bridge at the "A" street
crossing according to the plans and
specifications presented by the Henne-
pin Bridge company, and that the con.
tract. be awarded to said company
fprovided funds could be raised to pay
the contract price of $4,000, be re.
considered This was carried.
Protects the City.
Aid, Atchison then offered the fol
lowing notion:
II move that the motion last re.
ferred to be in all things amended SO
that the same shall be as follows:
That public necessity requires that
a bridge be built across the Mime
sofa river as near as practicable to the
section line dividing the NJ Roblee
and w. L. Wilson properties in West
Mankato, providing proper easements
leading to said bridge are first duly
obtained; all according to the plans
and specifications heretofore submit
ted by the Hennepin Bridge company
and thereafter duly adopted by the
| city of Mankato; and that such con-
tract be executed by and in behalf
of the city jointly WITH Blue Earth
county, Minnesota, Nieollet county,
Minnesota, and North Mankato, Min
nesota. or jointly with any one or more
of said municipalities, with the Hen
nepin Bridge company, for the price
of $4,000 bid by said company, and
the city of Mankato to beNmade liable
for no more than the sum of $4,000
of the cost of said bridge, and that the
moneys necessary to be paid over and
above said sum OF. $4,000 be paid from
other sources than the treasury of the
city of Mankato, and that the said
The Hennepin Bridge company be re-
|quired to furnish good and sufficient
bond, to be approved by the common
council, conditioned on the faithful
performance of said contract. and the
payment of all claims for labor and
material furnished in the construction
|of said bridge; that the moneys to
be paid by said city by virtue of
said contract as hereof shall be paid
out of the road and bridge fund to be
collected during the next fiscal year, or
by moneys raised by tax levy for that
purpose, to be made during the next
fiscal year, and the said city not to
be made liable under said contract in
any other manner; that the said con-
tract and bond be drafted and submit
ted to the common council for approval
at its next regular meeting; provided
that said plans and specifications and
contract be submitted to and approved
by the proper federal authorities be-
fore the same shall be effective"
The motion was carried without dis
Mahowald and Schroeder against it.
Aid. Atchison brought up the matter
of securing an easement to. the APP
proaeh to. the proposed location of
the bridge, and moved that the street
committee proceed to secure it, and
this was carried.
Ald.-Sehroeder brought up the matter
of repairing the ice breakers.
Aid. Atehison did not think break
ers do much good.
Aid. Schroeder reported that General
Widell had said that the piers are
not heavy enough to be depended upon
without ice breakers.
The matter was referred to the
board of public works. to look into.
River Improvement Boosted.
AID. Gary suggested that the city
pass a resolution in favor of river
improvement.
Representative L. III. johnson of Min
Ineapolis suggested that the resolution
should be made strong. as the matter
| is new one, and it, will take strong
pressure to cause the legislature to
lact.
City Attorney Schmitt was directed
to prepare such a resolution, on Aid.
Gary's motion.
ob1 VI tflt sflit thN
Minnesota River Improvement league,
to be filled ont with the amount of
land overlooked and the depreciation
in value because of the oyerilowal,
was filed out. 1t was stated In the
blank that one hundred lots had been
Ioverliowed. depreciating their value
$4,000. City Engineer Wilson said that
he had asked some of the owners
how much their lots had been dcpreci-
ated, and they had told him SIS a