Show CONTRACTS san rafael river and fer ron creek are favored county commissioners transact considerable important business in two day sessions the county commissioners with chairman andrew nelson and A P johnson present held an important session monday and another one tues day forenoon commissioner larsen was not present on account of imbor tant business at hone the principal business transacted was the awarding of a contract for building thelier san rafael budge to E marshall whose home is on the river for 1500 chich is the amount of the appropriation made by the state for the purpose according to the plans and specifications of the proposed br dge it will cost in the neighborhood of 2000 to build it but it is understood that pel sons interested in the matter of hav ing a bridge across the river have promised to donate the needed amount over and above the state appropriation the site is the one selected by the board some tine ago and is a few miles burthe up the river than where abutments were put in by J farrer a few years ago and which were paid for by a former state appropriation the petition requesting the new site was signed by nearly every citizen of green river including bankers and merchants ranchmen etc and another petition in favor of the same site came from wayne county and was signed by scores of prominent men from that sec tion only one protect has reached the county commiss boners which was signed by D S gill es alone mr marshall s bond for the faithful performance of the work was fixed at A contract for the necessary enlarge ment and repair of the ferron bridge was awarded to J E Sod equist and J H barton for their bid was 75 but after commissioner nelson tal ced to them over the telephone line the bid was cut 75 and the contract let four bidders offered to apply the county with 15 tons of coal and four coads of wood as follows milton tut tie and howard reid 69 75 jasper petersen 61 50 alfred hadfield ba H P ottosen 58 the ob was awarded to the latter E marshall and town clerk A E peck of green river petitioned for plank for bridge building on the county oads in their respective the latter asking for feet for the road north of green river owing to ow ebb i county treasury the blaid was obliged to deny both requests the county treasury was fattened by wo plunks dropped into same by ex commissioner le is larsen who paid hat amount for an old plow at cleve and owned by the county D strict attorney F E woods re looted the the law firm of tl urman wedgewood to as him in defending the county s title to the coal and at emery which the and sharp heirs now pretend to own H H oviatt sr was appointed austice of the peace to succeed his son it cleveland the appointment au sarnes with it the further duties of health office and registrar of vital statistics A petition from the citizens of hunt agton asking for a certain change in the huntington price road just north of huntington and at the intersection of the cleveland road was read the object is the abandonment of a short p ece of swampy road the petition not having the legal number of signers was referred back to the petitioners |