The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-02
Ardmore, Tuesday, February 2, 1915.

y 8, 1910.
county in 1909 and 1910 spent s30,61!
and the bridge company got s12,SS!
, of it.
Another Foreigner Gets Your Money
The Kansas City Bridge Co. takes
= $153,220.3 out of the state and puts
, nothing back in taxes. 1t operates in
q eight counties. Chase county paid out
$4,000 for bridges and the X. c. B. Co
got $4,000 of it, Ellsworth county had
no repairs to make so the company
got every cent of the appropriation
$15,70S.3S. Lincoln county spent $751;
500 and the company got $4,000 of it,
and maybe the rest is due the bridge
company. Such things happen in Iowa
as the bridge builder standing the
county off for year or two on part of
the payments-but not without inter
est. Oh, no, That is included in the
price of the bridge. Linn county spent
| $4,000 and the X. c. b. Co got $21 900
of it. Miami county spent $62,349.94
and the company got $36, Otta-
wa county spent 21,OO9O5, Ford coun-
| ty spent $l,6S7 and the company got
| 81 ga. There must have been a broken
plank to repair in that county. All in
all the bridge company got 76.S per
cent of all the bridge money in these
counties.
No Hunting bridge Jobs) Here
And when other bridge companies
come to these counties to pretend to
bid on bridge letting, they read the
sign and let the Leavenworth Bridge
Co., (Brokers) have everything in
sight. This company had staked out
seven counties. Clay county spent dur
ing 1909, 1910 and 1911, $36, O9O for
bridge purposes, and the l.. b. Co. got |
about 100000. jewell county good |
name all right gave the bridge com
pany all it spent-$5S,OOO. Nemaha
county wasn't very liberal Maybe re-
pairs were numerous and expensive.
1t spent $39,132 and the company got
only $12,S62. Russell county spent $37,-
767,69 and the l.. b. Co. got $21,O
of it. Wabaunsee county spent $49,-
269.57 and the company was paid $780,,
$685.. Leavenworth county spent $57,-
1874, but did not tell how much the
bridge company got. Shawnee county
gave this company its business but re-
fused to report. But as it stands. the
Leavenworth Bridge Co. got Y per
cent of the bridge money
One More "Private Grounds"
The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron
Works of Leavenworth have staked
cut II counties and stands guard over
the bridge funds therein Atchison
county spent in 1909 and 1910 $4,000
md the company got $4,000 Brown
county spent in the three years $40,
1850 and the company got 26,639O6
If it, Cove county spent $3.50 in
9O9 and 1910 and the NJ. V. b. & l.
20. got the whole thing. jefferson
county spent in the three years $55.- :
55 81 and $29,12S.27 of it went to this I
ridge company Johnson county had I
Z 600 to spend for bridges and cul- +
erts in 1910 and 300 ,was put into .
he pocket of the bridge company. &
)uring 1901 Saline county spent So "
81, of which $3,Sl2 went to this COM s
any. Douglas county ducked and re- a
used to report Greenwood county ~
pent $4,000 in 1911 and the company h
OF just half of it. Jackson county for
ONE reason didn't want her records
hown. Leavenworth county spent n
51194 but reported nothing concern {,
lg who got the most of the business, :,
ut we know that the Leavenworth n,
ridge Company did work in this fl
Ounty, so they probably divided the .,
usiness. Wyandotte county had lots s
bridge money to spend in 1911 and if
ave the whole sum-$143,S71 to the If
I. V. b. & |. Co. With three coun- cr
es in this group not reporting the ia
ridge company got 71.6 per cent of ty
/ the money spent on bridges. cul- q,
arts and repairs. ~
Another Foreign Preserve" &c
The Illinois Steel Bridge Co. (brok-
81 with shops at Jacksonville, ILL.,, Ell
nd offices at Kansas City, Mo, pays in
} taxes in Kansas but believes in get pl
ing all the tax money the Sunflower vi
ate will hand out Barton county be- WI
ngs to this preserve" hut kept us
um when state Engineer Gearhart jo
ked questions. Ellis county spent Sc
1,2l2.13 and the bridge company got ex
3,SO4.34 of it. Hodgeman county oc
ent $4SS7 in 1909, and 1911 the G