New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-03

| feet below the land surface, and that very
slowly. The drainage should be at least
ten feet below the low land level to insure
dry roadbeds.
Heretofore the Surveyors department had
| no record of the grades and levels through
out the city, but during the last two years
| nearly the whole of the city has been lev
eed. and the work now on file in that
| office.
The new draining canal work is measured
monthly, the cross sections of which are
neatly drawn and kept on file in the Sur
veyor's office, and are open for the inspec
ton of any person. 1t is done upon forty
five large sheets of paper, which contains
S25 cross sections.
But this is not all the work which has
been done by the Department of Improve
ments. That the public may form some
idea of the amount of labor and expenditure
required by the streets of the city, we sub
Join the work of the last three months,
which may be t,ken as fair index of what
is at all times necessary.
DECEMBER, 1871.
Plank road on Calliope, from Franklin to
Liberty street; three squares OF Call1ope
street repaired with ballast; Magnolia
street, between CalliOpe and DelOrd streets,
repaired with ballast; plank road on Cal
Hope, between Rampant and CarOndelet
streets; one square OF plank road at head
of Gravier, Canal Delta and Front streets
repaired with portion of the material
(stone) taken therefrom, the remainder be-
ing used upon Claiborne street, from Canal
street to the Old Basin; Frenchmen street
ditched and graded; l25 squares of streets
of the Sixth District reditched; Canal
street shellroad repaired from Claiborne.
street to the Halfway House; Common
street repaired with oyster shells from the
horse car station to White street; Bienville
street repaired from Claiborne to Roman
street; Washington street Third Districtl,
cutters opened and street dressed and
graded from Broad to First street. and
White and Encampment streets graded and
| raised to the proper level.
JANUARY, 1872.
Liberty, Calliope, Julia and Magnolia
streets repaired; two squares plank road on
/. Calliope street: the levee repaired from
Canal to Poydras streets: plank road on,
Wells and CrOssman streets; Claiborne
street, from Canal to st. Peter street, re-
paired also Carondelet walk; intersections
with ballast; canal TO drain Bayou Satfv-
age, dug from Ursulines to Orleans street;
Esplanade and Washington streets ditched
and graded: six squares of Frenchmen
street thoroughly repaired; new bridge built
at intersection of Washington avenue and
Toledano canal; l47 squares of streets of
Sixth District reditched; necessary repairs
to pavements and street bridges: routine
work. removal Of Offal and cleaning streets
ya6 atr nd NJ
holes therein filled with sand or street
scrapings.
FEBRUARY. 1872.
Washington avenue. west side, planted
with shade trees to CarrOlltOn avenue;
plank road on Gaiennie street. from the
| river to Front street 1.-TWO squares); French
men street eleven squares). from the river
| to Derbgny street. thoroughly Y repaired by
| the application of ballast and shells, and re-
| pairs on this street to Marigny canal, dis
| tance or twenty-three squares, are cOntem-
| plated: two squares on Wells street, from
| Canal to CustOmhouse street, covered by a
plank road; one square and halt on Cross
| man street. from Peters street to Pontchar-
| train railroad track, covered by a plank
| road: DelOrd street. from Freret to Clai-
| borne, repaired with ballast, shells and
| brickbats: Liberty street, from Felicity
road to Erato street, repaired with shells:
| Bienville street. from Claiborne to Galvez,
repaired with ballast and shells; Marigny
| street, from the river to Peters street. re-
| paired with ballast and oyster shells; she'll
| and ballast roads, which require constant
attention. received such repairs as was pOssi-
| BILE with the force and material at command;
| shell roads in the Sixth District thoroughly
| repaired; all streets running parallel with
| the river in twelfth and thirteenth wards re-
| ditched all streets in twelfth. thirteenth
and fourteenth wards "dressed" and
| graded :. very extensive repairs made to
| Kelerec Columbus, st. Anthony. Annette,
| Bourbon Union, st. Claude, Morales. Urqu-
hart, Girod, Robertson, Derbigny. Prieur,
Roman. johnson, Music, Vaudeville, Mo-
rales, Port, st. Ferdinand, MOntegut, Pc
| ters. Elmire, Piety, Bartholomew, Rampant,
Burgundy, Congress, France, Independence
| and Jeanne streets, in the Third District, a
| large quantity of river sand and other mate
| rial being used; CasacalvO street, from Lou
lisa to BartholomH street -four squares).
opened, ditched and graded, and new
bridges placed where required.
The business thoroughfares of the First
District, more especially the streets bor-
dering on the New Basin, and those lead
ing to the steamboat landing on the levee,
received such repairs as were from time to
time necessary; otfal regularly removed.
streets cleaned, cutters ''run,' unpaved
streets in rear of the city drained, holes
filed and the streets graded; necessary re
pairs made to pavements, street and gutter
crossings; street bridges constructed and
repaired; sand for repairs wheeled out from
| batture head of Hospital street.