The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-01

City Engineer McCabe has completed
his estimates on the cost of the entire
Job with the exception of the rock ex-
caVation. The bOrings for the rock ex-
.cavation have all been completed, and
At only remains to figure out how much
extra pay for digging and blasting rock
1Yil have to be allowed. There is a
large amount of rock excavation in the
JOB. -
= When these estimates. together with
the specifications. come before the
council, there will be something doing.
The old Sixth ward family feud will
break out in all its picturesque gran
deur, and Councilman ]. w. F. Hughes
and Councilman S. A. Swendson of the
Sixth will fall to and devour each
other.
Hughes says the sewer shall not be
built; Swendson says it shall be built.
Hughes says that the council killed the
Second ward sewer because it was in
tended to cover a district not supplied
with wafer. and that the Sixth ward
sewer should be knocked in the head
for the same reason.
Let up on my fight on the Sixth
ward sewer said Col Hughes this
morning in response to the State Jour-
nal reporters question. ''Neveri l am
going in to fight that proposition just
as hard as 1 know how. The people
down in the Fifth ward were finn
Manned into building sewer which
they thought would cost them $40 lot.
After the contract was let, they found
1T would cost them in some cases as
much as 800 for each lot. That's just
the way it will be out in the Sixth
ward l shall make my fight on the
approval of the city engineers esti-
mates. 1 think that the people out
there can not afford to build that sew
er, since they have not enough water
to flush it properly. The Second ward
sewer was abandoned because there
was opposition to a dry sewer; the same
thing ought to be true of the Sixth
ward sewer"
oh rIxr
that Col. Hughes opposition to the
sewer will not prevail, is the action of
the council in creating a benefit district
Including Lowman Hill, for the purpose
Of building the extension across the
sandbar at the end of the present Pot
win sewer Iowman Hill was included
in this benefit district on the theory
that the proposed Sixth ward sewer in
bowman Hill would connect with the
Potwin sewer main. If Lowman Hill is
knocked out of it's sewer, it no longer
could be held liable for the payment of
money to build the extension at the end
of the Potwin main. 1t would compli-
cate matters exceedingly to have the
proposed sewer stopped at the present
stage of the game. Col. Hughes says
IN regard to this matter:
1.-THE way to fix this is to have an
other appraisement made, and include
only Potwin this time. The people of
Fotwin are willing to pay for this ex-
tension at the end of their sewer They
don't ask Lowman Hill to help. All
we want is to be allowed to manage our
own business, and not have any other
sewer tackled onto the end of ours which
would cause ours in a short time to be-
come OvercrOwed, and necesSitate a
new sewer in Potwin.''
The sewer which Potwin now has it
did not pay for. The bonds issued to
pay for it were assumed and paid by
the city of Topeka when Potwin was
consolidated with Topeka Potwin got
ats sewer system practically without ex-
pense.