The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-07
Work Commenced Fhis Week on Es-
tablisliing Levels and Esti-
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mating the Cost.
SEWER ORDINANCE IS READ.
Alley Vacated for School Grounds at
Council Meeting Tuesday
Evening.

LVeueD9e i
Messrs: Ives and Olson, employees
of J. F. McGilvery, Duluth, to whom
was given the work of taking levels
and reporting an approximate cost
of the esta tablishment Of a sewerage
system for the city, are on the
ground this week actively engaged
in the work, and their report will
doubtless be before the council at
the next regular meeting.
The sewer question received much
attention at the meeting of the
council Tuesday evening, Alder
men St. Cyr, Walberg, Cohen, Hol-
mer, George and President Don
nelly beingi in attendance, all pre-
liminaries looking to the estab-
lishment OF this necessary public
improvement being: cleared away
by the esta ablishment of sewer dis
tricts and the reading, for the first
time, of Ordinance No. 36, estab-
lishing such districts as follows:
No. 1. All that portion of the
city lying north of Walnut street,
except that portion lying north and
west of Virginia lake. "
/ No All that portion of the city
from the center of Walnut street
south to the center of Maple street.
No. 3. All that portion of the city
lying south of the center of Maple
street to the southern, boundary
| line of 1.-The city, from the p, y. ~.
tracks on the east to the western
boundary of the city. sE...
No. All that portion of the city
lying north and west of Virginia
lake and north and west of Silver
lake, north to the northern bound
ary and west to the western bound
ary of the city.
The property Immediately adjoin-
ing and lying within any one of the
| aforementioned sewer districts is
to be assessed. for the building of
the sewer in such district, while the
city as whole will be assessed for
the construction of the main sewer.
The proposition is for the con-
struction, at the present time, of the
main sewer and of laterals in Dis
trict No. 2, extending through the
alleys on either side of Chestnut
street. ~.
| The improvement is one which
has long been needed, but which
the city's financial standing has
heretofore precluded. The past
two years, however, have been pro,
life in financial way for the city
the quota of saloons having greatly
increased, while the streets and
other Improvements of perma
nent nature have required much
less outlay. ~. -. =. e = =
The council also passed a resolu
tion vacating the present alley in
block AZ, and re-established said al
ley at point farther west in sale
block, between lots IA and Is, and II
and IL. This move was upon peti
ton of the Trustees of School Dis
trict No.22 and the Virginia. I'm
provement Co., that the new H1gl
School building to be erected II
said block might be given a deptl
of 156 feet. - -: a.. ;.
T. Ordinance No. 935, amending ar
Iordinance for the granting Of 4
franchise to the Missabe Electric
Railway Company, received it's sec
ond reading. The amendment tc
said ordinance 80; changes section
10 of the original ordinance as pass.
ed and accepted, which provided
i that .if eaid city of Virginia shall
pave the business street over which
1 the said company shall lay its
tracks, the said company shall Al
the same time and at its own ex
Ipense pave between its raile,' z that
under the amended rdinance the
!. company is to pay to the city any
difference in the cost Of paving said
street, in case Of said street being
i paved at any time, caused by the
& construction of said street railway
in and oversaid stree, the liabilit1
i OF the company in the premieesbe
ing limited to 9 . distance Of fivx
Il thlnckn ~