The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-12-12
BIDS TO Be LET
NEXT MARCH
FOR THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING
THAT WILL BE ERECTED
IN BROOkINGS
P. 0. BUILDING WILL COST $4,000
Hon. Philo Hall Receives Definite
Word From Senator Crawford as
to the Status of Building

Hon. Philo Hall informs the Regis
ter that he has received definite word
from Senator Coe l.. Crawford as to
the status of the government building
for ~Brookings. The matter has been
up in the air, so far as Brookings was
concerned, for some little time, and
recently Mr.. Hall wrote Senator Craw-
ford to find out just what the situa-
ton was. We quote from the sena-
tors reply:
THE public building bill passed
through the 61st congress and APP
proved June %, 1910, authorized the
construction of u public post Office
building at Brookings and the enter
ing into the contract therefor in the
sum of $4,000; so that everything has
been done, so far as the passage of n
law is concerned, necessary to the
letting of the contract and the pro-
ceeding of the work. The govern
ment completes about three of these
public buildings a month, or thirty
of them each year, and takes them up
in the. order, according to the date
to be entered into was made. | will
call on the treasury department to-
morrow for the purpose of ascertain
ing when We may expect Brookings
to be reached. 1t is practically i'm
possible to pursuade the department
to advance any building over the head
of another building authorized at a
prior date"
After his visit to the department
Mr.. Crawford wrote Mr.. Hall a Sec
ond letter enclosing the following
memorandum from the Supervising
Architects Office, which sets a definite
time as to when bids will be asked
for the Brookings building:
The drawings for the Brookings, S.
d., public building were completed by
the Drafting Section on November 81
last and turned over to the Computing
Section for specifications. In the or
binary course it will take a month to
complete specifications. The plans
will then go back to the Drafting Sec
ton and about another month will be
required for checking, etc. They Their
go to the printer and when printed
are ready. In the ordinary course, the
Supervising Architects office esti-
mates that this building should be
ready for bids about next March"
This information will be pleasing to
Brookings people, and it appears that
We will get our public building when
our turn comes, and that is all We can
ask. 1t will be also noted that Sena-
tor Crawford says the public building
bill carried a $4,000 appropriation for
this building. The first bill was simp-
ly an authorization act authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to pre-
pare plans for a building to cost $751;
600. Last year congress appropriated
$50, 000, which was available July LIST,
of last year, and the $4,000 mention
ed in last weeks Register, was t 0
bring the sum up to the required $751;
900, 1t is presumed that this amount
is for the building alone and that a
separate appropriation will be made
for the heating, lighting, furniture and
other equipment. This will give us a
fine building, nearly the equal of the
new court house in size, and undoubt-
eddy its equal in construction.
On Saturday Cheever & Cheever
and II. X. Halvorson we're notified by
the government to remove the build
ings now on the post office site with
in thirty days, and it is evidently the
intention to commence work on the
structure as Don as spring opens.