Hungry Horse news., 1954-03-26
Council Awards We'll Drilling Contract

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7 Improvement of Columbia Fall!
water system will be underway
next week.
Olsen and Justin, Columbis
Falls, Wednesday were awarded
contract for $4,000 to dig II
inch well and provide a IS inch
diameter, IL foot screen. Bids
were opened Monday.
Specifications are for the well
to deliver at least 400 gallons per
minute.
WATER PASSES HEALTH TEST
The well located at the site of
the present test well, where the
water meets State Board of
Health specifications, will be from
35 to SO feet deep.
To safeguard the well at Fourth
Avenue East and Fourth street
on the flat, Columbia Falls town
council is purchasing two lots
from o. T. Walsh for $3.50, and
four lots from Mrs. Lillian Giroux
for $500. In addition the council
is negotiating with Mrs. Melba
Dallier for purchase of an addi-
tional acre on the edge of her
tract as site of a possible second
we'll.
PUMP BIDS
Scheduled for April 19 is open
ing of bids by Columbia Falls
town council for an electric pump,
gasoline auxiliary pump, con-
crete block pumphouse, and pro-
viding and installing 10 inch
main for approximately 2,400 feet
cross town along Fourth street
from the well to near the schools.
Alternative specifications to be
awarded if funds hold out will be
for a new 10 inch main on First
Avenue West, and 6 inch pipe for
Second and Third avenues West
replacing old wooden pipe.
Improvements are to be COM
pleted by about July /.
The Olsen and Justin bid OF
$4,000 compares with relative bid
of $4,000 for the same work and
materials submitted by Price and
Lindsay, Clancy, Mont.
Specifications allowed the town
council to determine the award to
the best qualified for the local
well. Mayor Herman Benzien
speaking for the council said that
it was felt Olsen and Justin, hav
ing put down test well, and know
ing local water supply conditions
were better qualified in this par
ticular case, and the bid was less
than the engineers anticipated.
Price and Lindsay were contacted
and the decision was satisfactory.
OTHER BIDDERS
Two other bids were received at
the Monday opening for gravel
pack instead of conventional wells.
Layne-Minnesota Co., Billings,
price was 400 in view of having
a rig at the AAC plant, and Nc
Carthy Well Drilling Co., st. Paul,
bid $4,000 on basis of having to
move a rig in.
Gravel pack wells are consider
ed to be better than the conven-
tional, but in this case on basis
of the test well, the council was
advised to accept the cheaper
type.
Here for the bid opening were
John Morrison and Harold Eagle
of Morrison Maierle, Helena, con-
sulting engineers, employed by the
town for the water project.
Columbia Falls water system
improvements are being financed
through 100000 bond issue auth
orized by the voters Nov. 6. Piper,
Jaffray and Hopwood, Minneap-
oils, bought the 20 year bonds In
December at 315 per cent interest.
They also gave the town S9O,80O
for $4,000 as a premium. Olsen
and Justin put down a test well to
178 feet for 1894. Best water flow
was around 35 feet.
Harold Eagle of Morrison-Mai-
erie presented the council with an
estimate of improvements Colum-
bia Falls could expect in the next
ten years as it grows to be town
of 5000 to $500. This includes
S290,0OO for sidewalks, $293,O0O for
combination curbs and cutters,
S485, 900 for paving, $175,000 for
sanitary sewer system without
treating plant, $4,000 for par
tial storm sewer system.
Columbia Falls does not have a
city engineer. See editorial page 2.
At the special meeting Wednes-
day evening were Anton Hoerner
with E. B. Foot, attorney, to find
out more details about what Col
umbia Falls would do in the way OF
improvements if the Hoerner addi-
ton comes into the town, April 5.
Workings of a special improve
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