The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-13
WEST APPROACH
TO BRIDGE now
UNDER CONTRACT
Agreement by Morton County
Board Provided for Five Per
Cent Grade from Bridge
WOULD REPUDIATE 1T
Burleigh County Says It Cannot
Spend Great Sum of Money
to Build Morton Co. Viaduct
WOULD REPUDIATE IT

commissioners of Morton county al
'Bulleigh county including the pl
vision for the approaches to the B
marck- Mandan bridge contains Il
provision that a 5 per cent gra
shall be constructed from the end
the west approach.
It is this agreement which the, Blu
leigh county board says it stands
and which the Morton county boa
seeks to have abrogated. Both cou
ties proposed to obtain separa
agreement for federal aid projects f
roads to the bridge, one in Burleit
county and one in Morton count
neither to be connected with Il
bridge project proper.
The agreement was made public t
day by Burleigh county authoriti'
who declare they are willing to star
by it, but will not consent to the Ma
dan proposal that a vladuct be co
structed from the west end of Il
bridge to Manlan which might co
Burleigh county taxpayers anywhe
from 100000 to $125,000. Mortc
county and Mandan citizens shou
stand the cost of a road on the We'
side ,of the river and Burleigh cou
ty and Bismarck the cost OF rOa
en- the east side of the river, they sa
Agreement Made
The agreement follows:
This Agreement, made and en-.
tered into this 18th day Of April
1920, by and between Burlei9h
County by its Board Of County
Commissioners and Morton Coun-
ty by it's Board Of County Com.
,!missioners, or their authorized
representatives, and the State
Highway Commission Of North
DAKOTA.
The Counties Of BurIeigh and
Morton hereby jointly and sever
ally agree that the funds that
have been heretofore ap-
propriated by them for the
Missouri River project, or 50
much thereof as may be
necessary, have been and
are made available to
the State Highway Commission
for the construction Of the struc.
ture Of the substructure, super
atructure and structural app
proaches Of the proposed highway
bridge over the Missouri River be-
tween Bismarck and Mandan,
North Dakota, according to plans
and specifications prepared by c.
A. p. Turner as revised and sub
mitted to the Bureau Of Public
Roads of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture as Fed
eraI Aid Project No. 100 on the
3oth day Of December 1919, sub.
ject to revision to meet the re-
quirements Of the said Bureau Of
Public Roads; it being under
stood that the structure contem-
plated consists Of three main
spans totaIing 1443 feet center to
center Of east and west main
shore piers; that the structural
approaches shall consist Of ap.
proximateIy a 478 foot approach
to the east end and approximately
622 feet to the west end OF the
main bridge; also that the west
approach be built on S per cent
grade, which will bring the west.
erIy extremity Of this structure
approximately 12 feet above the
general ground level at that point.
It is further agreed that earthen
approaches constructed on
gradient not to exceed S per cent
Shall also be provided to reach the
structural approaches a each end
Of the bridge.
Payments Stopped
The controversy was brought out
public through a meeting of Manda
citizens in which some citizens urge
that the bridge be left incomplete
and the west end standing in the al
unless the federal aid project unde
which the bridge was constructed
reopened and the cost of propose
viaduct into Mandan included as
part of the bridge contract.
The government has stopped pa,
ments on the bridge contract becaus
of the attitude of the Morton count
commissioners, it was learned at tn
state highway commission.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the pa
ties of tbs Contract have hereunt
set their hands and seals on the da,
month and year first above mel
toned.
Burleigh County
BY its
Board of County Commissioners:
Edw. G.. Patterson, Chairma
C. A. Swanson
B. o. Ward,
G. III. Malone,
Grant Palms.
ATTEST:
T. E. Flaherty,
County Auditor for
Burleigh County.
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Morton County
BY it's
Board of County Commissioners.
C. p. O,Rourke, Chairman,
Theo. o. Feland,
August Nickel,
D. J. O'Neil,
G.. H. Urban.
ATTEST;
Lee Nichols
County Auditor for
Morton County.
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State Highway Commission
w. H. Robinson,
Chief Engineer & Secretal