St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-12-21

Water works, $1773.s1
Highways, 1903 65
Sidewalks, 311u52
Sewers, 5OS93
Parks, b12,S3
Street lights, 376 SO
Police 1910
Fire Depar tment, 244o.5i
Hydrants, 1880
General Department, 1430.6s
Special, 10000
Board of Health, 523.ss
Arrears, 1295.75
Total, $21 ,s2o.69
The following is the funded debt of the
village Eighteen thousand FIVE hundred
dollars at Az per cent and $4,000 at 4
per cent water bonds, in all $50 500.
Registered bonds and payable $500
Dec. l. each year to Dec. !, 1901, and
| $4,000 two years to Dec. 1, 1908, and
| $4,000 each year to Dec. L, A. D., 1906,
inclusive. Also $4,000 coupon bonds,
payable $4,000 each year for five years
ending Dec. 1, A. D. 1911. Total funded
debt SO, 500.
The following paragraphs from the
trustees reports is respectfully submitted ::
THE total amount appropriated for
use in the several departments the past
year, was $22 $50, of which the reports
show $21, 100 Al expended the operat-
ing expenses have exceeded the appropri-
ations in one instance only, that of side
walks is $11052. The appropriation
for this department is smaller, according
to its needs, than that OF any other. A
conservative estimate, based on the
measurement of water maus in our
streets, gives about 80 miles OF walks
and crossings, as at present maintained,
which mileage will increase from year to
year as the growing demands of the vii
lage require. For the last three years the
average of new walks and crossings,
plank and concrete, IS about one mile per
year. At this rate it would admit OF re-
placing once in 80 years only.
mo work OF any amount has been
done on Eastern avenue the past season,
deeming it best to keep near the stone
foundation put in some years since, in
preference to putting on any material to
be washed out, or remaining, to be con-
verified by showers into mud. Should the
electric road be built next year, work
might need to be done in connection
Herewith in the direction OF permanent
improvement.
IF the village did not care to be at the
expense OF paving or matchmaking, as
per the report of the trustees, at the
special village meeting, June 20. 1896,
the method adopted by the village OF
Lancaster, N. H.. might commend itself
as an economical solution of the matter.
Their outfit, consisting OF engine, stone
crusher, elevator. screens, roller. etc.,
cost $250O and is situated about one
mile from Main street. They contract
for crushing and delivering, So cents per
cubic yard, and lay five inches coarse and
two inches fine. Total, seven inches on
cobble stone foundation where it can be
had, otherwise same depth on regular
road bed. Roads treated in this manner
ten years previous were shown to be IN
good condition, with no expense for re-
pairs in the meantime. With conditions
| the same as at Lancaster, the expense OF
completing the remainder of the avenue,
with say, nine inches of crushed stone,
cobble cutters, and granite crossings
using the present granite for the curbing,
would amount to about $1,000. An
other matter for consideration is the
future of the concrete on Railroad street.
1t costs rom 500 to $125 per year Tor
repairs, should an exchange ever be made
and paving block substituted, the tounda.
ton stones would have to be taken out,
while if treated to a covering of crushed
stone they would remain as just the
] foundation needed.
1.-THE recommendation OF $500 in the
| sewer department is intended to provide
for laying sewer from Union street in
Paddock village, to connect either with
the one in Pleasant street or down
through Oak street to the river below the
dam, which latter source would accom-
moda,e that part Of the village. unable
at present to sewer other than into the
river above the dam"