Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-05-13
WILL CALL FOR
BIDS AT ONCE
TOWN COUNCIL is READY TO
PROCEED WITH PAVING OF
MAIN STREET
PERMANENT COMMITTEES NAMED
New Council Handles Town Business
With Vim and Precision

The town council held another
meeting last evening and talked over
paving matters and decided to call
for bids at once.
The council will meet tomorrow
with Engineer Cave to decide upon
certain matters of specifications. Mr..
Cave has prepared specifications for
five different kinds of pavino and
bids are to be asked for upon the
paving of Main street alone and also
upon the whole of the paving i'm
provement district as outlined in or
dinance No. 81.
The council secured some valuable
information IN regard to paving and
bond matters in their conference last
night with Charles w. Foster, repre-
sentative of bond house and Hans
Mumm, Jr., engineer, and repre-
sentative of the Portland Cement
Association.
Mr.. Foster advised the council in
regard to legal matters involved in
the handling of the paving bonds
and offered to prepare all papers
and do all legal work for a minimum
OF $3.50 or one per cent of the
amount of the bonds sold if over
$4,000, guaranteeing that the pa
pers, etc, would meet the approval
of the bonding houses.
Mr.. Mumm stated that he had
visited gravel and sand pits in this
locality and that Boomers Ferry was
better fixed in this regard than most
towns. He said good gravel could
be secured from the river bed close
to town and that sand could be Sc
cured within a mile from Main
street He took samples of the sand
and will have it tested and compared
with standard sand. He said the
local sand appeared to be firstclass
and just right for concrete work.
He told that his object in coming
here was to encourage the use of
concrete for paving purposes land
that his association was organized
Tor the purpose of seeing to it that
all work done with concrete in all
parts of the country was done right
and that his services were free at
any time. His association, he said
believed that it paid and was a good
advertisement to see to it that all
kinds of concrete work gives lasting
satisfaction.
. Mr.. Mumm gave considerable ad.
wise in regard to the construction
of retaining walls. He stated that
he did not think it advisable to trN
= to pave new fills the same season
the fills were made if the fills were
of much depth. Mr. Mumm is al
engineer of many years experience
and has handled all kinds of paving
work for many years in western
Washington counties.
. The application of Otto +. Mathie
= sen for the appointment as town
treasurer was read but action wal
b. deferred until a later meeting a.
was also action upon the appointment
!. of a town clerk.
t Frank Berger, manager of tn,
Bonner Water & Light Company, APP
peared before the board and advise,
them that the company did not fee
+ able at this time to put the watel
mains of Main street in the alley
! and that to do so would entail al
|. enormous expense to property own
4 ers. He also said that it was no
e advisable to put in iron pipes a
they would rust out quickly. H
= told that heavy rollers on the street
used to pack the ground for paving
would damage the water mains.
Town Attorney Wilson advised tn
council that the town could take car
of the water main question by ord
nance and that if the paved street
! were damaged by leaky mains tn
\ company could be made to max
= good the damage. The council in
structed the clerk to write A. +
Featherstone, owner of the Bonnie
d Water & Light Company, of its plan
Il in regard to immediate paving an
! invite him to consult with them j
u regard to necessary changes in tn
e water system.
o j. A. Morley, sewer inspector, n
IS ported the condition in which
l. found the sewer system. He sal
Al that the septic tank valves were di.
It connected and that the pump woul
% run but did not pump water. H
re had made repairs with the exceptio
lie of the pump and the water in II
q septic tank would have to be pumpe
4 out before this work could be don
al Mr., Berger stated that the troub
te with the pump was on account, pro-
Y, ably, of sediment or rubbish. T
" told of having taken out the pun
at one time several gunny sacks al
lie a large quantity of wire which hi
te been used in the sewer system f
ct some purpose but which had new
OF been removed. He told that Il
"a pump had been out of commissi,
s. used during high water when t
tie river raised above the 10 foot lev
b. The attention Of the council W
d. called to the following business
er no definite action taken: running
Sc the street sprinkler; cleaning up
We the Mary Carlson lots on Ma
he street; enlarging town boundarie
clearing and plating of the new lc
OF in the cemetery.
nd
re Bonners Ferry's new town coun
re took the oath Of office Tuesday mig
te. and proceeded to handle an enormo
se amount Of business with dispat
be that augurs we'll for town affairs I
ne the next two years.
on The outgoing board, with tn c
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