The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-27
Council Makes Tax Levy, Including
$16,500 for Paving.
This Procedure Made Necessary BY
Ruling Of the Courts.
South Broad and Lincoln Streets to Be
Paved With Asphalt.
Council Votes to Extend Water Mains
to Bunker Hill.
From Saturdays Daily.


The council last night took steps to
insure non-interference with the years
paving program, by including in the tax
levy a sum sufficient to pay for paving
the street intersections and in front
of city property. The sum thus levied
was $4,000, which brings up the total
tax levy to 100000, or $4,000 in excess
of the levy made the past two or three
years.
The council also took steps to include
in the district to be paved Broad street
from Warren to Center and Lincoln
street from Center to Byron. Many of
the property owners there desire this,
and it will round out the improvement
began two years ago. Asphalt will be
used on this improvement.
The tax levy was made, as follows:
Current expenses, $4,000; roads and
bridges, $4,000; interest on bonds, $lO,-
600; parks, $4,000; library, $4,000; sink
ing fund, $500; to reduce floating in
debtedness, $1,000; for paving, curbing,
guttering and grading Jackson street
from Broad street to the Milwaukee rail
way track, $3.50; same, Broad street
from Warren to Center, and Lincoln
street from Center to Byron, $1,000;
same, Front street from Poplar to Wash
ington, $3.50; for grading, curbing,
guttering and taking care of storm wat
er on Fifth street from Hickory to Madi
son avenue, $4,3S0; total 100000.
As compared with the tax levy made
a year ago, $500 is added for current
expenses, $4,000 is deducted for roads
and bridges, $1,000 is deducted for
parks, and $4,000 is deducted for re-
duction of floating Indebtedness. Last
year 81 900 was levied for the local i'm
provement fund, and nothing this year.
The paving expense is $l6,500, but this
is merely temporary, for when paving
has been completed, such expense will
be cut off, and the levy will go back to
the old figure. In making the levy for
paving, the council is profiting from the
experience which it has had in the courts.
1t is proposed to proceed cautiously and
leave no ground for injunction proceed
ings.
The following remonstrance was re-
ceived: eve, the undersigned, residents
and citizens of said city and owners of
property abutting on Front street there
in, do hereby most earnestly and re-
spectively demonstrate against the paw
ing of Front street with asphalt.
owe furthermore suggest and believe
that the financial condition of the city
of Mankato is not now such as to war
rant you in undertaking such an extern
f.. sive and expensive improvement and that
you as aldermen of the city are not JUS
titled in imposing upon the citizens and
people of Mankato at the present time
the enormous cost of such general
street improvement as is now under con-
sideration by your honorable body" 1t
contained seventy-one signatures.
The remonstrance was ordered placed
on file.
Aid Kleinschmidt said that he was in
favor of public improvements, and he
moved that public necessity requires that
Broad street be paved between Warren
and Center streets, and Lincoln street
between Center and Byron, and he NOV
ed that the matter of paving it with as
phalt be referred to the board of public
works under order No. /, and this was
carried.
President Porter said that the board
of public works would be able to report
upon the proposed paving of Front and
Jackson streets and the matchmaking
= of Fifth street at the next meeting 1t
had not yet had time to prepare the
reports.
Water For Bunker Hill.
lie works be instructed to procure six
inch pipe and extend the water mains
up the old Bunker hill road from Fifth
street, distance of LOO feet. He said
that the council year ago granted the
people water up there, and it was time
they were given it.
Aid. Jorgensen said it would be a
pretty expensive job for four or five GUS
toners. He suggested that the pipe be
laid up Glenwood avenue, where some
consumers would be secured.
Aid. Coy said there would be twelve Oh
more takers, and probably more later
when people locate there, which they
will not do until there is water there
City Engineer Thompson said that the
cost would be about $500.
Mayor Taylor said he thought that
the people ought to have water, but ii
was a question whether the water would
be fit to use.
Engineer Thompson said that the
water would not be as good as further
down, but with watering trough il
could be used. A watering trough would
be necessity.
The motion was carried, five to one
Aid. Jorgensen voting "no."
Aid. Coy said that the time has come
to remove the old lamp posts, as they
are a nuisance.
The city recorder agreed to notify the