The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-04-08
TO START : WORK
A 7 ONCE. !. ON BIG
STATE ELEVATOR
Contract Awarded Yesterday
Marks Beginning Of $780,
600 Structure
MACHINERY NOT INCLUDED.
Will Turn Out 5000 Barrels Of
Flour Daily, Announce 4
ment States
MACHINERY NOT INCLUDED

Bismarck, N. D., April S.--Work,
will be started as soon as necessary
construction materials are on the
ground on the state owned MILL ana
elevator at Grand Forks, the con,
tract for the erection of which was
awarded here yesterday by the state
industrial commission. The contract
was awarded to the Fegles Construc-
ton Co. OF Minneapolis and Fort Viii
liam Ontario, and the Northern Con-
struction Co. OF Grand Forks on a
joint bid Of $922,S50.
Under the terms of the contract
accepted by the state. the state VIII
buy all materials entering into the
construcilon OF the mill and elevator
thereby saving approximately $25,JW
on war tax on freight and cost of
materials. ,All savings such as this
are deducted from the contract price,
the commission announced.
The mill and elevator, which viii
be the largest state owned enterprise
of it's kind in the country and the
largest mill and elevator in the state,
will have q daily capacity OF -2,oOJ
barrels of spring wheat flour and 1000
barrels Of macaroni -four. This repre-
sents daily receipts of l4,ODC bushels
of wheat
To Cost $1,soQooo
The contract awarded yesterday in
cludes construction of the buildings
and not the machinery. Bids for the
milling and otner machinery will De
opened by the commission May l5.
This will be in the neighborhood OF
$3.50 ,0UO, the commission estimates,
bringing the total cost Of the entire
mill and elevator when completed
close to 81 100000. .s
Some idea OF the immensely of the
work can lbe obtained from the plans
and specifications in accordance with
the contract was awarded. There will
be 39O, 600 worth Of lumber used, COM
prising 2,00O, ,Oee feet. Sixty thousand
barrels 81 cement. costing $1O3OO0
viii be needed and a 1000 tons Of re-
inforced steel costing 3157 900 will be
used. Sand and gravel, which vii!
he turned into $4,000 cubic yards Of
concrete, will cost $4,000.
> Buildings i
The warehouse will be 60 feet BY
12O feet and will rise 200. feet above
the foundation mat, which will be
sixteen feet below ground level. The
storage building will be 30 feet by 80
feet and have 80 storage bins with q
combined capacity Of 1,600,0OO
bushels. The mill will be AZ feet by
100 feet and eight stories high. 1t
will have two flour, storage wings,
each AZ feet by 200 feet and one story
high.
The location Of the mill az ID eleva-
tor is on 30 acre tract adjacent
to the state fair grounds and is served
by a joint spur Of the Northern Pacifi c
and Great Northern railroads. The
elevator itself will have four and one
half miles OF tracks. composed OF
lseven separate tracks between and
alongside the three buildings connect
ing with the joint spur track. ~,
Cleaning House
The cleaning house will have a
capacity ct 100 cars daily All grain
received for storage and milling pur.
poses will 90 through the cleaning
house where 1t will be treated and all
foreign substances removed. From
this place the grain will be graded
and then placed In storage bins &c
he later turned into the two differ
ent grades of flour.
The time limit on the contract to
building the three structures has been
placed at October 81, 1920 and unless
materials, supplies and machinery are
held up on account Of shipping facili.
ties and other causes beyond the con:
troll of the contractors, it Is expected
that the buildings will be finished
within the time specified. !
Six Bids
There were six bids submitted
some of them running very close
The bidders were Bates Rogers Co
/ of Chicago. B,lt1er Brothers of st