The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-11-10
SEWER FINISHED.
North Side improvements Completed
this Afternoon.

The north side sewer was completed
today by the contractors, Dick Atchi-
SON and James Myers. 1t was flushed
this morning in order to wash out any
| clay or dirt that may have remained
In it from the start of the work, and
it was thoroughly inspected from be-
| ginning to end. The sewer is only a
little less than a mile in length. The
north side sewer proper is thirty-flve
hundred feet in length, and the lateral
that has been extended to d street is
about fifteen hundred feet.
The contractors have the work com
pleted within the contract time and
have days to spare. The sewer is the
best piece of work that has ever been
done in the city and it is a credit to
both city and contractors building II.
It will give a sanitary sewer to all
that portion of the city lying north of
Searle avenue to the east of Market
street and west of Market to all prop
critics north of College avenue. A
large number of houses west Of G
street and between College avenue
and + avenue will be connected with
it. The sewer was built largely at
the solicitation of the Penn college
people, who desired to open a strip Of
land lying along North e street. They
agreed to take something like twenty
five tappages for their properties. The
work has long been promised and the
building of a number Of houses was
depending upon the ability to get
sewer connections.
The work was all done in accord
ance with the sewer survey recently
made in the city by the Iowa EngIn-
eering company. 1t lies the farthest
to the north of the city. 1t is to be
extended west from e street past the
Iowa Central and west into Hender-
sons addition to the city Of Oskaloosa
and will also give service to a great
part of northwest Oskaloosa.
The completion of the work today
was accomplished in the building OF
the last man hole" near the stand
pipe and filter house of the Oskaloosa
Water company. The ausaing of the
sewer regularly will be done from the
filter house and the water that now
goes into the Penn college sewer will
be used alternately between the two
for cleansing purposes.
The new sewer was started at a
point west Of the northwest corner Of
Forest cemetery and runs in a south
westerly direction around the hills On
the south side of the ravine to the
north of Searle VENUE. 1t crosses
Market street at the foot of what has
come to be known as the Gibbs HILL"
and runs thence southwest to the
Penn college skating rink pond,
through the lower part of the-eonege.
campus o E street Or the road run
ming TO the Yearly Meeting house. 1t
will be extended west from this point
at a later date. The lateral that was
completed today runs south along e
street to College avenue, thence east
to the alley and then south again TO
the connection with the filter houses
of the Water company.
Messrs. Atchison and Myers cele-
brated the completion of the work by
having the picture Of the sewer
gang" taken. The workmen engaged
on the trenches and in the reflling,
together with the teams, a number of
the city officials ard others appear in
the picture.
Messrs. Atchison and Myers are to
be congratulated upon the excellence
of the whole job. The man holes that
have been placed in every angle were
built by the city and are good pieces
of work. They we're put up by Will
liam Oldham. A.