The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25

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induce the voters to refuse a valuable.
strong and adequate property and by so
| doing to keep the county seat. When
/ Lennon first proposed to build a court
/ n5ase, 1Hey were sincere IN their offer.
! The Bison bunch then said that the
offer was bluff. that Lennon never
would put up a bond to build the struc-
ture. Then Lennon filed the bond and
specifications. Then the Bison bunch
said that the bond was no good, and
| that the specifications of the building
were faulty This shows that Bison
| from the start has been trying to fool
| the voters into believing that Lennon
paign is based upon the hypothesis that
Lennon and her business men are a
menace TO the county, hoping by the
use of personalities TO keep the mind of
the voter away from the issues in the
campaign. The Bison bunch is appeal
ing to your passion and prejudice.
They ridicuie our proposed coIrt house
building, knowing as they do that if
they win they can cling to four years
more Of existence. But they forget to
/ tell you that if Bison is selected the
county seat il will remain the perma-
nent county seat for four more years
and that during that time the taxpayers
of the county will be compelle to erect
court house property that will be
sufficient for the permanent needs Of a
county at their own expense.
Bison's latest effusion in her cam
paign of misrepresentation is an attack
on the specifications. They try to show
that the foundation of the building is
not sufficient. Now let US see.
The specifications say that the
foundation shall be of cement, clean,
sharp sand and broken rock. The pro-
portion named is one part cement,
three parts sand and six parts broken
rock.
Now every contractor knows that this
mixture is what is known as three
to one' mixture, the sand and cement
/ being the ingredients that make for
hardness and solidity. Builders know
I that the usual proportion used is SIX
parts Of sand and one part cement.
Bat Lennon apprehended when draw
/ ing up the specifications that Bison
would Hna faalt wiki them. s.. The cgsss-
mittee just doubled the mixture in
( richness.
I Now the Cyclopedia of Bricklaying,
! Stonemasonry and Concrete published
I ay Frederick j Drake 4 Co, is an
authority that is up-to-date, being
copyrighted in 1910. 1t il not an
absolete or out-of-date work as 30
many works on cement are, owing to
the rapid and recent development in
| that business. Now we will examine
what this authority says in regard to
foundation walls and we will use as a
basis the mixture that is used so
frequently by all contractors. On page
#5 rf this work we find as follows:
That a foundation wall, of a mixture
six to one, will carry a weight of oS
tons to the square foot of foundation
surface.
Now the specifications show that
there will be ASS square feet of
foundation for the court house building.
On the basis of our authority. the
foundation walls Of the court house will
support total weight of 44,O5o tons.
Now careful estimate Of the plans
and specifications, made by men who
have devoted their life to such work,
shows that the court house will weigh
800 tons. In other words the founda-
| tlon wall Of the court honse, if they
were made of six to one mixture,
would support a building weighing
I4S times the weight of the court
house. But our mixture IN the specif-
cations calls for proportion OF sand
and cement Of three to one. In still
other words ii the concrete founda-
ton walls were half as good as the
specifications call for, they would
support building I4S times as heavy
as the court house will actually be.
The thought that the foundation of
the court house is insufficient could
only find place in ignorant and pre-
JUDGED minds. 1t is proof as we said
before Of Bison's deliberate attempt to
deceive the voters. Farmers of ordin-
airy experience in building know that
there is nothing to Bison's criticism,
that it is all buncombe. that it is in
spired for the selfish purpose of keep
ing the county seat at Bison. The Bison
| bunch would be tickled to death to see
the taxpayers turn down Lennon s
proposition and then have the taxpayers
few years from now dig down in their
pockets to build an adequate county
building.
/ Next as to the vaults. Bison saws
/ they are too small In tho p,o,, .,x,,....