The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-07-11
Called Sessions Last Night to
Act on Street improvements.
Sewerage Ordinances Come Up fol
Further Pa ssage and Meet with
no Oppos ition.
l. l 7 7 LIE OTHER BUSINESS


for the purpose of considering bids fol
the paved streets. There were tw,
bids when the committee opened then
yesterday afternoon, one from Katter
john & Weikle and the other from W
. II. Bailey of Henderson, who has the
contract for erecting the governme nj
building addition.
The aldermanic board was the firs,
to meet and City Engineer l.. A.
Washington stated that the Katter john
bid was the lowest, and was as fol.
lows:
For excavations, 40 cents per cubic
yard; for concrete, 1885 per cubic
yard; for cement grout filling, 10
cents per square yard; for coal tar and
asphalt filling, Is cents per square
yard for granite curblng, $l.25 per
lineal foot; blue limestone curbing,
81 per linesl foot circular granite
curb, %. so per lineal foot; circular
blue limestone curb, 81 per lineal foot !;
granite street corner stones, SO. 20
each; redress and set old ourbing, 20
cents per lineal foot; blue limestone
street corner stone, 81. so each granite
alley corner stones, $3.50 each; blue
limestone alley corner stones. 90 each /;
for setting inlets furnished by city, %
each; storm water sewers, 80 cents
per lineal foot; granitoid sidewalks
| five year guarantee, 20 cents per
square foot; brick pavements, five
year guarantee, where no car tracks,
81. 90 per qsusreyard; brick pavements
without guarantee on streets with car
tracks, s2.2S per square yard; brick
pavement without five year guarantee,
in streets where there are no tracks.
80. 8 per square yard extra concrete,
1896 per cubic yard; brick pavement
on streets where there are tracks, and
with five year guarantee, Sass per
square yard.
The bid Of Contractor W. II. Bailey
was as follows;
For excavating, 40 cents per cubic
yard; for concrete, 1910 per cubic
yard; for cement grout filling, 10
cents per square yard for coal ter and
asphalt filling, IS cents per square
yard for granite curbIng, s1.30 per
lineal foot; for blue limestone curbing,
sl.O3 per- lineal foot; for circular
granite curbing, 81. "a per lineal foot
for circular blue limestone curbing,
Sl95 per lineal foot for granite street
corner stones, 1926 each; to redress
and set old curb, % cents per lineal
foot for blue limestone street corner
stones. s2.57 each; for granite alley
corner stones, s2.27 each; for blue
limestone alley corner stones, 81. 05
each for setting inlets furnished by
city, s2.lo each; for storm water
sewers, 25 cents per linesl foot; for
granitoid sidewalks, five year guaran-
tee, 201s cents per square yard; for
brick pavements, five year guarantee,
where there are no car tracks, 80. As
per square yard; for brick pAvements
without guarantee, on streets where
there are car tracks, s2.34 cents per
square yard; for brick pavements,
without guarantee, where no car
tracks are, $2.23 per square yard
extra concrete, 1870 per cubic yard
brick pavements, five year guarantee,
where there are car tracks, ~. SO per
square yard.
Engineer Washington gave it as his
opinion that some OF the figures were
reasonable and some were not. He
appropriated the total cost o. follows:
For paving on streets where there are
car tracks. $l2,0a3.2e; sl3,S45 for
the thoroughfares upon which there
are no car tracks, making total Of
S28, OIy.26, of which the city pays
SI,l77.l6 for public Intersections,
while the balance is divided equally
between city and owners of abutting
property. For the grsnitoid side
walks, l5,1ss.75, OF which the city
pays 734 for the intersections, while
the balance is paid for altogether by
the property owners. The total cost
to the property owners for sidewalks
and streets would be $26, 975. 80, which
pro-rated will make the property
owners pay 2.97 per foot for the gram.
told walk and 2.57 per foot for the
paved street. The city's total cost
would be sI3, 69s. 81 for streets and 73l
for the sidewalk intersections The
eng inc estimated the entire cost for
the work to be. cal, 4sO.0l, which be