The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-09-02

surveyor in this county for several terms
now, and that when we did have one,
years ago, he kept his Office by prefer
ence at his own residence in another
town. So we don't need that very bad
Just now. We have already added to
the estimate above the abstract office"
in connection with the registers office.
The Foster county building also has a
room for the county board, whereas in
this county they meet in the court room.
There is also "library" in the Foster
county building, but at present we don't
think Pembina county has many books
to place IN such room if they had one.
Thus it will be seen that after all the
larger space of the 100000 building of
Foster county is not used in giving larg-
er offices to the resident working oftici-
ais but is mostly for rooms for which
there is no immediate necessity here,
though it is we'll, while they are being
built, to provide for future possibilities
as they have apparently done.
The Foster 20. juil is separate build
inng and is four cell Jail instead of a
two cell Jail like ours. 1t has eight
living rooms for the jailer instead of six
in this county. Gu the other hand our
sheriff has an Office in the main building
about the size of the clerk of courts
room which added to the totals of resi-
dent officials offices makes our Office
rooms exceed those of Foster county for
these officials. But the Pembina Jail
has never been crowded for any length
OF time since it was built, and late years
more often entirely empty for months at
time.
AS to cost of public Buildings there is
something more than size which enters
into the calculation. A large building
may be built with comparatively small
amount of money, while = smaller build
ing may cost a good deal more. 1t is
largely question of material and archi-
lecture. We believe building large
enoughlto accommodate all the Offices
of the county for many years could be
built Tor $4,000 or less. but we do not
believe that would be the kind of
building the tax payers would want to
build. Such building would have
little advantage over the present build
ings in appearance, and, as we have
shown, the additional room would be of
little present value. II would lmean
building of the cheapest sort of con-
struction. What such buildings ought
to cost is not learned by taking the
cheapest building one knows of for COM
parison but by taking number of them.
To recapitulate, the register, clerk of
court. county judge, treasurer, auditor,
superintendent aud sheriff have more
square feet of Office room in Pembina
county than have the corresponding off
cials in the new court house of Foster
county, while the two court rooms are
approximately. the same size.
As to vault room three of the vaults of |
this county were built within recent
years and as the cost of building outside
vaults on the ground was very small,
therefore, they we're made as large as the
county board considered necessary.
Whenever more room is needed these
vaults can be enlarged to any extent de-
sired at the nominal expense necessary
% build an eight foot brick wall aud
roof. AS to safety they are, because of
ISOLATION, safer from fire than any set Of
vaults possible in any one building.