Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-14
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF
CITY COMMISSIONERS. SEPTEM
Der II, 1916.

The Board Of City Commissioners
met in regular session.
Present, Commissioners Battey,
Bertsch, Best, Kirk, President Lucas.
Minutes of meetings held Septem-
Der 9Th and Sth were read and ap'
proved.
The protests of the Todd Land COM
pany and % others against paving in
Paving District Number Two were
. read and filed.
Captain /. Pc Baker appeared, be-
fore the Board and protested against
paving at this time and asked that
contracts be not awarded at this time,
and further asked that the Bismarck
Commercial club be represented al
this meeting. E..'s....r
President Lucas stated that the OF
jections Of petitioners against paving
had been carefully considered
Commissioner Best explained why
the Commercial club had been asked
to cooperate with the Board in con
sidering the matter of paving in the
city.
The report of the paving commit
tee, recommending that the contract
for paving be let as specified in the
specifications. except for the four
blocks around the Court House and
the Is feet west of Second street, was
read and filed.
Captain Baker again spoke in pro-
test against paving at this time.
The report of the committee, COM
posed Of Commissioners Battey,
Bertsch, W. E. Lair, f. A. Hughes
and c. n. Kirk, on their trip of in
vestigation of different kinds of paw
ing in Fargo, Moorhead, Winnipeg,
Duluth, Chicago, Minneapolis and st.
Paul, was read and filed. Captain
Baker spoke, protesting against paw
ing contract being awarded at this
time, and also protesting against
awarding Of contract for paving to be
laid in front Of any property whose
owner had not previously asked for
such paving to be laid.
Resolutions we're then adopted
awarding contract for paving in Dis
trict Number One to HanlOn & Okes,
the material to be bitulithic and to
be finished 10y November 1916, and
providing that the asphalt used in
said paving was to be Natural Lake
Asphalt; also awarding the contract
in District No. Two to the Ford Paw
ing company, the material to be Sheet
Asphalt (Trinidad Natural Lake AS
phalD, the work to be completed by
October |, 1917; further providing
that the Barber Asphalt company file
with the City Commission an under
taking to furnish, free Of cost to the
City, a competent chemist on the
work, he to report daily to the City
Engineer and the Paving Committee
on the chemical analyses Of the ma
terial; and further providing for pay
ment and interests on warrants used
In payment for the work done. The
following vote was taken on roll call
in the resolution: Ayes, Battey,
Bertsch, Best, Kirk. President Lucas.
Mr.. Best, in voting, stated that he
would have preferred to have voted
for the use of bitulthic in both dis
tricts. There being five Ayes and no
Nays, the resolution was adopted and
the contracts awarded as set forth
in the resolution.
1t was directed that all certified
checks and bidders bonds be return
ed to unsuccessful bidders.
The undertaking of Warren Bros.
to keep competent chemist, free of
cost to the city, on the work, was
filed with the Board. -...
A resolution was adopted instruct
Ing the City Engineer not to increase
or diminish work to be done under
paving contracts, except under the d.
rection of the Board Of City Commits
sioners and that all inspectors ap-