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The Minneapolis Journal, July 11, 1895, p. 2

HERE IS GOOD NEWS

The New Courthouse to Be Ready for the Next Term of Court.

FINISHING TOUCHES BEGUN

Clerk Dickey with His Files Is to Be the First Tenant.

Unless Providence interferes, the board of city hall and courthouse commissioners will have ready the new court rooms, judges' chambers and clerk and county attorneys' rooms, in the new courthouse, by the opening of the September term of the court. It has been constantly maintained by them that the rooms would be ready when the judges wanted to move in, but up to the present it has scarcely looked as though the assertion could be made good. It is said, although the commissioners would be unwilling to acknowledge the fact, that the determination of the judges to move in willy-nilly, whether their quarters were quite ready or not, has not been without its influence. At any rate, the county attorney's office is very near completion, and the other rooms are not far behind. Clerk of the Court Dickey expects to get his file moved before the court opens, and in so doing will become the first occupant of the new building. The county treasurer, auditor, register of deeds and sheriff are hoping to be located in their new offices before October.

The county side has just reached the finishing stage and work may be expected to go slow. For all that the tinting of the walls is well under way, the hardwood floors are being laid where the tinting has been finished, and the painting will soon begin. This will finish each room, and it will then be locked up, ready for use. On the stairs, work is already begun, a force of men now placing the heavy iron stringers. The stairs themselves are here, and so no delay in their construction may be experienced. Work on the elevators will commence on Monday, under charge of Mr. Haskell, the representative of the Sprague-Pratt Electric Company.

The long delayed floor tiling has not yet been heard from, although it would seem to be greatly overdue. It is of English make, and the first should have started for this country on June 14, with other shipment June 24 and July 25. Once arrived the contractors promises to set enough men on the job to hurry the work along at a rapid pace.

The contracts for the iron work for the jail are to be let July 15 at a meeting of the commission called for that day. The contractors are given 90 days for their work, but it is said that any firm offering to do it in less will score an additional point toward securing the award.