The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-15
SOME STREET WORK.
Report Of ommiaslone nraSly ON u
Work DOnai In Hts Department.

- Ns
Work Done In HA Department.
Following 10 the report Of Street Commits
: sioncr Brady, presented at Tuesdays coun
oil session. It speaks for ITSELF and show
a remarkable amount Of street work wei
Gone:
HELENA, Montana, Jan. 10, 1891.
The Hon. Mayor and City Council, Hel
ena, Observation-Disclosures: have TIL
honor to submit herewith my report o
work done on the streets OF Helena from
May l, 1880, to Jan. /, 1891. There Il
scarcely an important street ON which some
work has not been done III the way OF cl0an'
ing or trimming up and filling the numer,
Gus holes caused by the settling Of sewer
and other trenches. For the months OF
: May, June, July and August. 1880. -four
teams and six men were kept on this class
OF work and nothing eise. The following
il a review OF the most important work
done:
Eleventh avenue-Trimmed from Rodney
street to 1T. Peters hospital.
Helena avenue-Trimmed and cleaned
from Main street to Northern Pacific depot.
Boulder avenue-Trimmed from Helena
avenue to Hannaford street.
Lyndale avenue-Trimmed from Helena
avenue to Hannaford street.
Roberts street-Graded from Boulder
avenue to Northern Pacific depot.
Lewis street-1rimmed from Helena ave-
nue. to Harris street.
Sanders street-Trimmed from Montana
Central railroad to Northern Pacific rail-
road.
Gallatin street-Trimmed from Montana
avenue to Harris street.
Main street-Graded from Helena ave.
nue. to Chestnut street. trimmed and holes
filed with rock from Helena avenue to
Broadway, McAdamized across Bridge
street.
West Main street-Trimmed from Bridge
tckraoA u<,,<b ,v,J I'M Fank M klosct1n @
Clore street-Graded from Cutler street
to Edwards street..
Edwards street-Macadamized from Main
street to Park avenue.
Benton a~venue-Partly graded from Flow.
erree street to Wilder avenue and trimmed
n filed in various localities.
Monroe ay~enuc-Partly graded from Hem
lock street to Lawrence street.
Hayes avenue-Partl graded from Spruce
street one-half block south.
Hollins avenue-Partly graded between
Benton avenue and Grant avenue.
Lyndale avenue-Partly graded from Main
street west to Montana Central railroad.
Bozeman street Partly graded from
Roberts street to Montana avenue.
Fuller avenue-Graded from Lawrence
street north.
Twelfth avenue - Partly graded from
Ewing street to jackson street.
Allen street-Partly graded from Fifth
avenue to Seventh avenue.
Seventh avenue-Graded from Main street
to Warren street.
jackson street-Graded from Broadway
to Wood street and Grand street to Sixth
avenue.
Wood street-Trimmed from Main street
to Joliet STREET and Macadamized 800 feet
east of Main street.
Joliet street-Trimmed through.
Bridge street - Trimmed from Clore
street to Rodney street and M~acadamized
from Waof Main afrook RI W0far offoot
Cutler street-Trimmed from Clore street
to Rodney street.
Water street-Trimmed from Bridge street
south to end.
Pine street-Trimmed from Water street
to Davis street.
Congress street - Trimmed from Pine
street east $50 feet.
Warren street Trimmed from Pine
street 200 feet north OF Wood street and
from Broadway to Helena avenue.
Ewing street-Trimmed from Pine street
to Broadway.
Rodney street-Graded from Wood street
to Broadway. trimmed from Thirteenth
avenue to Helena avenue, also nearly to
grade from Clancy street to Division street.
This latter work has been done mainly by
prison labor.
Broadway-Trimmed from Main street to
Hoback street.
Davis street-Trimmed from Pine street
to Twelfth avenue.
Chaucer street-Trimmed from Broadway
to Second street.
Beattie s~treet-Graded from Broadway to
Sixth avenue, trimmed from Sixth avenue
to Ninth avenue.
Hillsdale street-Trimmed from Davis
street to Chaucer street.
Highland street-Irimmed from Davis |
street to Chaucer street.
breckenridge street--Trimmed from Beat
tie street to Hoback street.
DoIn;rb pfraak (srnIoI fs~-o .1-1-- /
ridge street to Sixth avenue, and from
Eighth avenue to Ninth avenue, and
trimmed from Broadway to Breckenridge
street.
Fifth avenue-Graded on north side of
street car track from Hoback street to X
street.
Eighth avenue-NearIy to grade from
Idaho avenue to Montana avenue.
Ninth avenue-Graded from Davis street
to Hoback street.
Eleventh avenue-Graded from Rodney
street to Hoback street.
Tenth avenue-Tri,nmed from Rodney
street to Ewing street.
Also the construction of Fl road 1000 feet
long, up Lime Kiln gulch to the city dump
ground.
Where streets are described as having
been trimmed up it is to be understood in
some cases a simple cleaning off of the
rocks and rubbish, in other cases it means
in addition the construction of good SUBJ
cutters throughout the distance
specified, and in other cases it means a cut
or fill of six inches to six feet, according
as the condition of the street demanded,
One hundred and fifty thousand five nun
dred feet, board measure, has been laid in
c~rosswalks, c~ulverts and fumes, said lum-
Der costing in the aggregate 81, 1O3.s {.
Following is a detailed statement of ex-
penditure for labor on streets, summarized
from my monthly reports from May l, 1890,
to Jan. l. 1891:
7 1853. 8 days labor at $3.50. .........S 1924 30
1s6 days, foreman at s.. SO. ... 65l CO
127 days carpenter at So. 00. ... 38I On
1865 days carpenter at 80 50..... 687 *
AT days cart horses at 81 sc. f25 ~
IN. D days teams at 800. .-..... 1887 so
TiVe moh'h prison guard at TI5.-...e. a75 90
ihfee MONTHS prison guard at $780,. 300 90
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