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Mobridge

• sparks of sound • Reigstad School • Sunshine State • First Baptist • buffalo bones sold, $14 per ton • 1931: drought, depression, dust storms • steel and concrete span turbid stream • West End Tavern • the railroad workgang rests • Oh roily Missouri! glacier-born stream born • Becker’s Tas-Tee Bakery • Bridge City baseball • Burns Bar & Barbershop • ring-neck pheasants reign • Arikara gardens of cultivated corn, pumpkins, beans • WWI dead: Harley Parker, Ole Romslo • Camp Pontis, Company K • Wind-rolled Russian thistle • Fool Soldier Rescue • library’s magic lantern lectures • alluvial plain with windbreaks of cottonwood, willow, elm • White Eagle Service Station • Prohibition’s blind pigs • Railroad Roundhouse: all punching shall be accurately done • Petra Olson’s Rooming House • The Hiawatha • Henry Honkaeva’s Mobridge Grill • livery & feed; livestock bought & sold • sandhogs suffering from the bends • Swanson Creamery • crude cabins, sod shanties, slabs stamped firm and chinked with clay • purple cornflower • chop suey and noodles at Soo-Hoo Joe’s Chicago Café • Sitting Bull Stampede • Truman’s whistle-stop campaign •1880s: Swedes, Danes, Norwegians •Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows • kerosene stove that dried ladies’ hair • yellow-painted highway stones • bullboats, keelboats, steamboats, hospital ship • Titonwan council fires • pheasant sandwiches at The Beanery • Bridge Citians: plungers, drifters, grifters, and solid citizens • pasque flower• Meta Hellriegel’s women’s outfitters •Howe’s murals: Calf Woman & The Mystic Pipe, The Sun Dance • from an iron horse to bucking broncos• Snow Queens• Grand Crossing • Dean’s Drive-In • George Maniotis’ Billiards• skeleton key, skeleton deer, skeleton town below blue waves• wind rushes, buffalo grasses flat against sodden ground • ten-kilowatt dynamo with gasoline engine furnishes electric light • Sakakawea • United Methodist • Milwaukee Railroad’s End of the Line: March 31, 1982 •

Progress Images

Towns Along Milwaukee Road (Chicago to Mobridge)

South Dakota           

1. Mobridge           8. Andover 
2. Glenham           9. Bristol
3. Bowdle            10. Webster
4. Roscoe            11. Waubay
5. Ipswich            12. Milbank
6. Aberdeen        
7. Groton

Minnesota 

      13. Big Stone City    20. Bird Island        27. Red Wing

      14. Ortonville          21. Glencoe            28. Wabasha

      15. Odesa               22. Benton             29. Winona

      16. Appleton            23. Minnetonka

      17. Montevideo         24. Minneapolis

      18. Granite Falls       25. St. Paul

      19. Renville             26. Hastings

Wisconsin 

      30. La Crescent        37. Portage              44. Ranney

      31. La Crosse          38. Fox Lake             45. Pondout 

      32. Sparta              39. Horicon

      33. Tomah              40. Iron Ridge

      34. New Lisbon        41. Granville

      35. Mauston            42. Milwaukee

      36. Kilbourn            43. Racine

Illinois

       46. Glenview

       47. Chicago 

Contact Information - Footings

After calling many people and construction businesses in and around the Mobridge area, here is the current information I have for the contractor I found to do the footings for the site. I was in contact with Matt from Keller Construction.

Keller Construction
Mobridge, SD

Office phone #: (605) 845-5777
Cell phone #: (605) 848-0169
Email: keller777@live.com

When I talked to him a couple weeks ago, he said he was able to do the footings when we need him to. Sending a group up to mark the exact spot of the footings would be helpful or Brian has mentioned marking the spots of the footings on a site drawing. That drawing and drawing of a footing would need to be sent to his email.

Flag Pole Foundation

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING FOUNDATION DIMENSIONS ARE FOR OPTIMUM SOIL CONDITIONS.  DIMENSIONS MAY HAVE TO BE INCREASED IN YOUR AREA.

CONSULT A LOCAL FOUNDATION ENGINEER FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Exposed Height	A	B	C
20' & 25'	3'0"	24"	30"
30'	3'6"	30"	36"
35'	4'0"	36"	42"
40' & 45'	4'6"	42"	48"
50' & 60'	5'6"	54"	60"
70'	7'6"	66"	72"
80'	8'6"	66"	72"

IMPORTANT: PRIOR TO BEGINNING ANY EXCAVATION, VERIFY THE LOCATION
OF ALL BURIED UTILITIES, WATERLINES AND DOWNSPOUTS.

1. Use the foundation detail above to determine the required width and depth of your hole based on the exposed height of the flag pole being installed. Hole my be dug round or square.

2. Once excavated, locate the 1/2" x 12" long threaded rod, 3  hex nuts and 6" square plate in the carton with the foundation tube or the carton of flag pole accessories if the tube was shipped with flag pole. Screw threaded rod into the nut welded on the bottom plate of the foundation tube. Secure it in place using one of the hex nuts. Thread another nut onto the rod until it is 6" from the bottom of the foundation tubes bottom plate. Lower the 6" plate to rest on the this nut. Thread remaining nut to the 6" plate. Secure the plate by tightening both nuts.

3. Place the foundation tube in the center of the hole and push lighting rod in the ground so that the 6" square plate rests on the floor of the hole. While holding the foundation tube on rough vertical, pour concrete around the foundation tube until you have covered approximately 2/3 of the tube. CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO SEE THAT NO CONCRETE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER THE FOUNDATION TUBE.

4. At this point, completely level the foundation tube vertically using the inside or outside wall of the tube. NEVER ATTEMPT TO LEVEL TUBE BY RESTING THE LEVEL HORIZONTALLY ACROSS THE TOP OF TUBE AS TUBE MAY NOT ALWAYS BE CUT STRAIGHT.

5. Form up the sides of the hole using 2 X 4's or Sono Tube. Carefully finish pouring concrete until there is 1/2" to 1" of the tube exposed. Recheck level of foundation tube.

6. Trowel the surface as desired, allowing for some slight slope away from the foundation tube. DO NOT DISTURB THE LEVEL OF THE FOUNDATION TUBE.

7. Let concrete set for at least 72 hours before erecting flag pole.

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