The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
COST is 100000
Topeka Has Spent Large Sum
for Paving.
All This Is for Work Done This
Year.
WORK is COMPLETED.
No Contracts Left Over for Next
Year.
Doors Barred to Any More Paw
ing Petitions.
WORK is COMPLETED.

Over 23 blocks of pavement, costing
lneariy $780, 900, have been laid in To-
peka during the past summer, and for
the first time in two years the paving
contractors have completed practically
everything under contract and are "up
with their work.
Half of the paving work done this
summer was work which was left
over from the. previous summer on ac-
count of the long delay caused by the
flood. All of this left over work has
now been completed. The only re-
manning tag end of this years work is
a block on Huntoon between Van
Buren and Jackson, which has been
tied up in the courts, ana upon which
! the contractors commenced work dur
ing the past week. If good weather
continues a couple of weeks, this last
remaining block will be finished up.
1t may be delayed on account of lack
of curbing. There is not enough on
the ground to complete the job.
The following is a complete list of
the pavement which has been laid
during the past summer:
No. Blocks.
Kansas avenue, Thirteenth to
Eighth, Shunganunga to city
limits
Adams Second to Fourth.
Huntoon, Jackson to Van Buren
Alley, Harrison and Twelfth.
Fillmore. Thirteenth to Douthitt 1
to thirteenth ........,.. 1h
Jackson, Tenth to Huntoon.
Eleventh, Quincy to Van Buren, 3
Fourth, Topeka to Western.
Seventh, Monroe to Madison.
Tyler, Twelfth to Fourteenth.
IOlal 20 n
In addition to getting up the neces-
sary plats and specifications for the
above paving, and supervising its con-
structiop. the city engineering depart
ment has during the summer prepared
pIats and specifications for three sewer
districts, eight bridges, and pest
house. 1t has been a busy season in
the engineering department.
Hitch in Negotiations.
It was thought for time that ar
rangements had been made so that the
work of paving jackson and Twelfth
streets around the new barns and
shops of the city railway company
would go ahead and be finished up this
fall, without waiting for the paving to
take it's regular course next season.
The city railway people were anxious
to have the work done, and proposed
to the contractors that they would pay
over to them at once all the tax due on
their property, provided the contractors
would go ahead and do the work and
wait until the bonds are sold next sum-
mer for the remainder of their pay.
The contractors accepted this PROPOSE
ton, which meant that they would
take about 20 per cent of their pay now,
and wait for the remainder.
1t is understood that a slight differ |
ence arose between John Ritchie, the
paving contractor. and L. E. Myers, |
manager of the city railway, and that
Mr. Ritchie refused to accept the com |
pany's proposition. This difficulty has
on these two blocks, and it is probable
that the work can not now be started |
until spring. although the curbing is |
already on the ground.
No More Paving.
At the meeting of the streets and |
walks committee held Friday evening, |
it was decided to shut the door to all |
further paving for next summer. |
Councilman S. A. Swendson will at the |
council meeting Monday night recon- |
mend the passage of a resolution to |
this effect.
The committee cleaned up all the
petitions which were pending before it, |
and then decided that the time had
come to stop for this year. Two blocks
were favorably reported last night,
one on Clay between First and Sec
ond, the other on Douthitt between
Western avenue and Fillmore.
The aggregate estimated cost of all |
the paving let in for the coming sum-
mer is slightly over $4,000. It is
probable that when the contracts are
let and the cash payments deducted,
the city will have to issue new paw
ing bonds to practically the same
amount as the paving bonds which
mature and are paid off this year
This will therefore not result in any
decrease in the city's bonded debt.
The following are the paving jobs
which succeeded in getting through
the gate for next summer before the
gate was shut:
Resolutions published and contracts
let:
No. Blocks
Jackson, Huntoon to Twelfth.
Kansas ave. to jackson. 1 l.
Twelfth, Kansas ave. to Quincy.
Tyler to Fillmore. 4
Polk, Huntoon to Fourteenth. -. 1
Alley, Kansas ave. and Laurent . 1
Alley, Fourth and Jackson. .
Resolutions passed: