The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-06-30
City Council Has Established
Street Grades In Sank
Centre.
Comprehensive Plan for Sew
err Systsn1--How it Will
be Paid for.
Movement fer Sidewalks Of
Concrete and Advantages of
SaCh.

ltan airs, additional improvements
are required, and a sewer system
is now deemed the next necessary
step forward. Actuated by this
feeling the city council took steps
few weeks ago to secure a com
plete survey of the city streets, to-
gether with a plan of a proposed
sewer system and a plat of the
street grades necessary for the
same. Civil Engineer L. P. Weolf,
of Red Wing, was employed to do
this work which IS now completed
and the city council has accepted
his work, establishing the street
grades according to the plat pre-
pared by him. These grades diff
fer materially from those indicated
in what is known as the Abercrom-
bic survey, made a number of
years ago. Though it was never
formally adopted as fixing the
street grades, some property own
ers have aerected buildings &C
cording to this old plat, and are a
little disappointed that the grade
should be changed. However, the
new plat has been prepared with
the>thought of the best good to the
greatest number, and the number
of large cuts and fills will be few.
Second street will be filled for
quite a distance, from E. L. He
din's corner, at Maple-st., to Capt.
Hanson's property at Oak-st. The
hill on Fourth-st., in front of Dr..
McMaster's residence will be cut
down and Slight fill will be made
on Fourth-st., near Oak, which
must be raised about two feet
from Fifth to Fourth-sts., west of
the school house. A cut on Wal
nut-st., west of Byron Carr's resi-
dence and the grading of Maple-st.
from Third to Second-sts. about
completes the list of important
grade changes. This work will all
be done by the city.
This establishment of grades
throughout the city is a decided
benefit, as property owners may
now make permanent improve
ments with the assurance that no
future street work will render
them out of proportion to the
grad established in the official
plat.
The plan for sewers is complete
and comprehensive, contemplating
sewer service for the entire city ul-
timateiy. twill open into the RI
yer from Pine street, and the two
principal mains will be on Pine and
Second streets, the greater portion
of the city being drained through
the latter. twill probably be many
years before all of these projected
mains will be completed, but this
year the Main-St sewer will be laid
from Third-st to the river.
The charter under which Sank
Centre is incorporated provides for
the construction of sewers only by
special tax on all taxable prop
erty, but the council proposes to
work under a Minnesota 1895 stat
ute which provides that in cities of
less than 5000 inhabitants local
improvements can be made by or
der of the council and the cost as
sessed against abutting and bene-
fitted property.
Another commendable move is
that for concrete walks on our maii,
business streets. The council last
evening passed an ordinance re-
curing that all new sidewalks on
Main-st. between Third and Fourth
SITS. and on Third-st. between Oak
and Main-sts. shall be of concrete,
with curb of similar material, and
of approximately the same width
as at present. Several property
owners have also determined to
construct concrete walks at the 1
residences. And the expense will
not be as great as might appear at
first thought. Six-foot con rete
walks have been laid in Minneapo.
lis for so cents per running foot,
while an ordinary walk of two-inch
pine planks and stringers costs
about Is cents foot and must be
repaired and rebuilt every few
years, while a concrete walk is
good for lifetime and a shower OF
pail of water gives you new walk
every morning. The concrete walk
has no nails to work up, no planks
to loosen, warp or rot, no cracks
through which filth may drop to
lie and rot and send up its miasmic
vapors into the nostrils of passing
pedestrians. Now that the street
grades are established permanent
walks can be laid with thesassur-
ance that thew need never be