“Bridge Notice.” from the June 18, 1868 Door County Advocate
Bridge Notice.
Sealed proposals will be received until Sept. 1st, 1868, at the town clerk’s office, in the town of Bailey’s Harbor, for building a bridge across Kangaroo Lake in said town. The bridge will be about eighty-five rods in length, and must be built sixteen feet wide. At each end for the distance of eight or ten rods cribs must be built; the balance of the distance spiles can be driven. The bents to be fifteen feet apart, two spiles in each bent, caps of cedar or pine 20 ft long and twelve inches thick, flatted; tenants four by eight inches. Stringed must be of cedar or pine, thirty-two feet long and flatted, eight inches thick and placed four feet apart.— Covering either of pine or hemlock plank three inches thick; a good and substantial rail 3 feet high to be built on each side and braced on each bent. The work must be completed by the 1st day of July I869. Four hundred dollars can be advanced on the contract if good and sufficient sureties are given that the work will be performed. Each bid must be accompanied by a guarantee that if the bid is accepted security will be given for the performance of the work. Said security to be approved by the board of supervisors. Proposals to be addressed to F. Braasch, Town Clerk of Bailey’s Harbor, Door county, Wis., and marked on the outside “Proposal for building bridge.”
By order of Board of Supervisors.
5.11t F. BRAASCH, Town Clerk.
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