Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
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IOtal $,050.00
which is about the same as we are
now paying out and with the erection
of a city hall we will have some.
thing to show for our money, while
now we have nothing to show for it.
The expenses of running a city hall
will also increase as the city grows
but not in the same proportion as
under the present plan
The above estimate of cost does
not include sinking fund, which
will run from $1,000 to $4,000 per
year, according to whether the bonds
issued run for ten year, fifteen years
or twenty years. This sinking fnn2
will cause the only increase in tax.
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1t has been stated that property
owners will raise their prices SHOULD!
they discover their lots are wanted
for a city hall. As a matter of fact
there are several locations which
probably would be satisfactory for
this purpose which can be had for
from $4,000 to $4,000 with corner
lots and from SO to rs foot frontage
and lao feet deep, convenient to
down town as well as to the resi-
dence districts. And these prices
are not too high; they are on par
with surrounding values, and the
competition between the various To-
cations will be sufficient to keep
down the price.
If the city hall is erected this sum
mer it will, at very conservative
estimate, cost ten per cent less than
ID built a year ago, for material will
be lower and labor also. The bonds
will be sold to outsiders, thus bring.
ing In that amount of new foreign
capital, which is what we need here.
Up to the present time practically
all our advances and improvements
have come from the inside, we have,
in fact, been lifting ourselves solely
by our own efforts.
A city hall will give us a suitable
place for housing our fire depart.
ment, extensive improvements which
are earnestly desired and needed. II
will civ us better council chamber
with good, dry vault in which to
Keep the city books and records, in
stead of, as in the present vault, a
damp, cold receptacle, which ruins
every paper and book put therein
One Waterman and his wife is all
that is necessary for the building
He can be given living rooms 70,
which his fuel will be furnished anG
this with $50 per month salary viii
get us a good man. He can attent
to the care of the fire department
utensils, act as janitor, care for tn,
city prisoners, and attend to the cit,
scales which it is proposed hayin,
and still have plenty of time to kill
1t is estimated that the income fror
the city scales will run at least $50
per year. This amount would mater
Tally reduce the running expenses.
The board of city prisoners can b
cut in two, if not more so, as at pre-;
ent we have to pay rs day boar
to the sheriff. no matter If the pris
oner Is there five minutes or twent,
four hours. Besides which we ar
compelled to pay fee of 81 for re
ceiving and discharging each one
| This Is all legal and according to la,
but with the city boarding its ow
prisoners, the cost would be the a,
tual expense of keeping them, food
fuel, light, ETC., and there would b
no receiving and discharging" fees
| A good man and his wife, wit
their rent and fuel free, can be ha
Tor $50 month, the man to do al
the heavy work and the woman t