St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
MINNEAPOLIS SEWERS.
The Work of the Sewer Department for
the Falls City for the Year 1885
Summed Up.
It Has Completed More Than Five and
One-Third Miles Throughout
the City.
One of the Foremost in the Cfty's
System of Improvements--Co
sos, 541.53.
List of the Streets Where the Sewers
Have Been COMMUNICATIONS
ofTheir Cost.
The Sewerage system.

The Sewerage system.
OF the foremost Importance in the system
OF municipal improvements is rated the
sewerage system. And this is so not alone
on account of its convenience in carrying off
waste water, etc., but owing to the sanitary
protection it affords the citizens as well.
The latter reason is more potent in fact,
than the first The work of constructing
sewers for the year 1885 is now about at a
close. There is only one which is not COM
pleted, namely the Fifteenth avenue north
east sewer, and that is so nearly finished
that even cold snap cannot now prove
serious hindrance to the work, and when
winter sets in all the Improvements ordered
in the sewer department will be ready for
service.
Aside from the great North Minneapolis
sewer tunnel, which is to be the main sewer
of the city and which will open up a vast
and densely populated territory, which has
hitherto been deprived of the conveniences
and benefits of the sewerage system, there
have not been as many miles built during
the past season as were built the preceding
year, as witness: The annual report of the
city engineer shows that in 1884 there were
built 35, 314 feet of sewers, whereas during
1885 only 27,S20.25 feet have been con-
structed. The cost of the sewers put in
last year was S1s9, $685. So, and the cost the
present season has been sos. 541.53. Neither
of these footings include the expenses of
the services of the inspector, nor the iron
work. Just how much will be added to the
expense Of the work of perfecting the i'm
prOyementS on account of these two items
could only be appropriated, as the report
OF the inspectors has not yet been made.
Last year the total expense of the sewer
department of the city, aside from Office
expenses, establishing grades and the like,
was S166. 630.71. OF course the expense of
the season just closing has been largely in
excess of that sum, because of the North
Minneapolis sewer tunnel, which is indeed a
great undertaking and an expensive one as
well. The total length of sewers built the
present year has been 5 Is miles and 100
feet over.
The following report will be found a COM
prehensiye resume and reliable, with the
exception of the two items mentioned above
The great North Minneapolis sewer will be
treated separately and independently:
THE SEWERS.
In Third street north, from First avenue
to Second avenue north, John Burns, con-
tractor; length of sewer, ALT feet; length
of manholes, 1872 feet; length of catch
basin, s feet; total length. 1919 feet; cost,
81, IA; 57.47 yards rock work, $136. Al;
total cost, 81, 81. 16. On Third street north.
from Third avenue north to Second avenue
north. John Burns, contractor; length of
sewer, 1920 feet; length of manholes.
1895 feet; length of catch basin, s feet;
total length, 406.1 Is feet; cost, $942.27;
~ IL
cost. 81. 391.71.
In Washington avenue north, from Third
avenue to half way between Third and
Fourth avenues north; John Burns. con-
tractor; length of sewer, 211.S feet; length
of manholes, 10.1 feet; total lenth, 221.9
feet; cost, S523. 6s; 1929 cubic yards rock
work, $270.3S; total cost, 1874. o.. In Mic
ollet avenue, from Ninth street to Tenth
street; Thomas DAILY, contractor; length of
sewer, 1851 feet: length of manholes, so
feet; length Of catch basins, 80 feet; total
length. 4S9. l feet; cost, 81. 345. 02. In Mic
ollet avenue, from Fifteenth street to Sew
enteenth street; J. Gleason & Co., con-
tractors; length of sewer, 665.3 feet; length
of manhOles, 36.3 feet; length of 6 catch
basins, 4s feet; total length, 740.6 feet:
cost. 81, S36.52. In Tenth street south.
from Mary place to Harmon place; j. Fl.
Nevins. contractor; length of sewer. 1924
feet; length of manholes, 1912 feet; length
of catchbasins, "a feet; total length,
1856 feet; COST $s22.60. In Fifteenth
street south, from Third to Stevens avenue;
E. T. Sykes & Co., contractors; length of
sewers, 623 feet; length of manholes. 1856
feet: length of 7catch-basins, Sc feet; total
length. 1916 feet; cost, So, 1871.
In First avenue south, from Ninth to
Eleventh street; r. NJ. Rivers, contractor;
length of sewers, S31.40 feet; of man
holes, 111.60; of s catch-basins, Ga; total
length 1,007 feet; cost, 50, 306.03; g. 5
cubic yards rock walk, $170.62; total cost,
50, 1865. In First avenue south, from
Eleventh street to Twelfth street, r. NJ.
Rivers, contractor; length of sewer, 1918
feet; of manholes, 1872; Of catch-basins,
16 feet; total 525.7 feet; COST 81, 1928. In
Nicollet avenue. from Tenth street to
Twelfth street, Thomas Daily, contractor;
length of sewer, s36.9 feet; of manholes,
1876 feet; of catch basins, 81 feet; total
length. 9S4.5 feet; cost, $2461.25. In
Nicollet avenue, from Twelfth street to
half way between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, Thomas Daily, contractor; length
of sewer. 215.1 feet: of manholes, 1875
feet; total length. 1855 feet; cost S445.77;
length extra work. 1881 feet, $33.7 10; total
cost, $479.52. In Nicollet avenue, from
Seventeenth street to Nineteenth street;
j. Gleosin & Co., contractors; length of
sewer s51.5 feet; manholes, 104.5 feet; of
5 catch-basins, 48 feet; total. 996 feet;
cost, So, 29o. 80. In Fifteenth street, from
Stevens to Nicollet avenue, E. T. Sykes &
Co., contractors; length of sewer, 664.3
feet; of manholes, COL; Of 6 catch
basins, 81; total, 772. 40 feet; cost, 50, 695.6S
In Sixth street, from Second avenue south
to First avenue south, E. F. Sykes, con-
tractor length of sewer, 1863 feet: of
manholes, AL; of two catch-basins, 16 feet;
total length, $40 feet; cost, $1,GS5.90. In
Park avenue, from Fifteenth street to
Nineteenth street, E. F. Sykes & Co., con-
tractors; length of sewer, 1,490.7 feet; of
manheles, 1868 feet; Of thirteen catch
basins, 1O4 feet; total length, ISIS feet:
cost, SIS, 039.46 In Sixth avenue south.
from Ninth street to Tenth street, John
Burns, contractor; length of sewer, 1885
feet; of manholes, 1873 feet: of two catch
basins, II feet; total, 1868 feet; cost
S917.O9. In Shade street. from Nicollet
avenue to Vine Place, James T. Tobin,
contractor; length of sewer, 1871 feet; of
manholes, 46.5 feet; of three catch basins,
"a feet; total length, 1852 feet; cost,
81. 0OSO 4. In Third street. from Sixth to
I5:c Tnhin