Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-06-17
HIGHWAY BOARD
LETS CONTRACTS
POISON BRIDGE. ROOSEVELT HIGH
WAY, BELT-GREAT FALLS ROAD
ARE INCLUDED


WAY, BELT-GREAT FALLS ROAD
X INCLUDED
Thirty Thousand Tons of Coal Used b
State; Elliott Gets Contract for Tie
laboratory; Pillsbury Must Improv
Bridger Water System
Thirty-eight miles Of state highway
and several bridges, including one over
the F1athead river at Poison were
placed under contract by the state
Highway commission q few days ago.
The contracts total $457 .1I6.82. Most
of the work is federal state
tive. The Poison bridge Is to be built
entirely by the government and q prof.
ect for ~surfacing the Great FaIls-Belt
road is to be paid for entirely BY the
state. Bidders were numerous. Low
offers were:
Poison bridge, w. P. Roscoe. Billings
$101 ,ll6.27.
Dillon-Butte road, 9o.876 miles, Beaver
head county. Pioneer Construction com
pany, Bozeman. $40 $50. 81.
Malta-G Glasgow o on Roosevelt high
way. 5.489 miles. Valley county. Thomas
Staunton, Great Falls. $47.717.15.
Two bridges on this road, L. ". Lock.
wood, Glasgow, 90. 322. rs.
Bridges on the Armington-Lewistowr
road. Fergus county, over Cottonwood
and Beaver creeks, Yellowstone Construc,
ton company. Billings. s11 ,356.50.
Elk Hills region of the Kalispell-Libby
road, 8.312 miles. Lincoln county, San
Orino, Spokane. s1O8, 1874. 90.
Pleasant valley-Fisher river bridge III
Lincoln county. w. X. Trippett. OF
Whitefish. 8 ,018.
Surfacing Great Falls-Belt road or
Y-G-Bee line highway. 7.31 miles. Cas-.
cade county, Thomas ~Staunton. Great
Falls. $40. 800.
Pablo-Rollins road. 7.13 miles, Lake
county, Sam Orino, Spokane. s69. 1862 IT
Thirty thousand tons of coal it takes
to keep the state of Montana's home
fires burning. Contracts for that amount
representing an expense of $133 900 have
been let by the state purchasing depart
ment to the Bear Collins Coal company
of Roundup. the Roundup Goa Mining
company n the Northwest Improve
ment company OF Red Lodge. The sup
ply is to be divided among the many
state institutions, the capitol, univer-
sity units and schools. Prices for steam
coal ranged between $500 and $3.50 a
ton; for lump and III coal between
$5 rs II % a ton. The price and amount
are about the same as last year.
c. H. Elliott Of Missoula has beer
by the Montana board OF ex-
aniners the general contract for CON
of the states new entomology
laboratory. to be built at Hamilton.
His bid was $33 ,734. with a deduction OF
1897 in case the board decided to do
without a contemplated building to
house animals.
TIL Missoula Hardware and Plumbing
company was given a contract for the
heating. plumbing and electrical work.
The bid was $14.754.
A separate contract will be let for the
refrigeration system, which with furni-
ture and fixtures. including scientific APP
paratus, is estimated to cost $4,000.
The legislature appropriated $50. 600 for
the plant, which will replace the little
wooden schoOlhouse used for many years
for spotted fever control work and where
the preventative serum was developed by
Drs. r.. r. Parker and r. r. Spencer, rep
resenting the state board OF entomology
United States public health service.
In addition to carrying on its fever
control work. the board of entomology
expects to use the building for manufac-
ture OF the serum, development OF the
tick parasite brought from France to
the wood tick and for other
phases of chronological research.
A. F. PiIlsbury of Minneapolis has been
ordered by the Montana Public Service
commission to improve the water system
Brtdger, which he owns, Immediately.
The commission suspended its order,
made last fall, pending negotiations law
Ing been without result. The order. the
commission says, is now to be enforced
and mo patchwork will be allowed"
Location OF state headquarters OF the
Legion will be an issue at the
annual convention which opens at Hell
ena June 16, says O.. G. Lamport, state
adjutant. Headquarters are now In
Helena.
Delegates OF the post OF another city
have been instructed to make a fight for
of the administrative Offices to
their city, MIR. Lamport said, declining to
make public the name OF the contending
city. The delegates are reported to be
coming with the backing of their COM
merctal club and with an offer of free
quarters.
Permission to remove tracks on the
spur, at Alder, has been
granted to the Northern Pacific railway
by the Montana railroad commission
The spur was constructed to serve mining
which have been discontinued
Farmers Of Box Elder, Hill county, have
asked the gasoline inspection division OF
the state railroad commission for an ex-
of the motor fuel sold in their
OF the state. Tests may be made
by the state under an act of the 1927
legislature.
Applications for lease Of more thar
$4,000 acres of state land in Valley and
adjoining counties have been filed with
the state land board. The unusual num-
Der, in the opinion OF H. c. Biering, dep
uty land agent, who has Just returned
from that section OF the state, is the re-
suit OF q belief OF the farmers that the
1927 season, because Of heavy rainfall,
will produce a bumper crop. Farmers OF
the high line, their planting held bach
by the late spring, are seeding fax for
the market and oats for feeding, he says
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