The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-25
WILL GET THE CASH.
City Contractors Won't Have to Take
Bonds This Year.


Instead of requiring the paving /
contractors to take paving bonds in |
payment for their work, as was done /
last year. Mayor BergundthaI an I
nounces that the bonds viii be sold /
and the contractors paid in cash.
This viii cause the contractors to 4
have a feeling of intense relief. They /
objected strenuously last year to TAX I
ing paving bonds, but there was no 4
way out Of it for them. The law au-
thorized the city to pay the contract /
ors either with bonds or cash, and as i
the city could not sell its bonds il 1
worked them of on the contractors
No trouble in selling this years /
bonds is anticipated. Already the |
city clerk has had several applications |
from local banks and capitalists who !
are DESTROYS Of getting some or all of
the issue, and it is regarded as ex-
tremely probable that the local bid
ders will take all the paving bonds /
the city has to offer.
Unless the city contracts for more /
pavement than has already been let, |
the issue of Improvement bonds this
year will probably not exceed $4,000. /
Last year it was s136, 0C0, and it has
gone as high as S175, 900 in a single
year. Included in this years Bond
issue will be the issue to pay for paw
ing Kansas avenue from Thirteenth to
Euclid, which was ordered done last
year, but held up because OF the OBJ
struction of the street car company.
Just what will be done about bonds
for the Huntoon street pavement can
not be definitely stated. The city is
sued bonds to cover this improve
ment last year, but owing to a desire
TO have the proposed pavement
widened to IS feet, the bonds or
their equivalent are lying idle in the
city treasury. The pavement will this
year cost S1,245.50, which is some
what more than last. The question is
whether the money derived from last
ment as planned at present, or wheth-
err there viii have to be a new bond
issue to cover the situation
Exclusive Of Huntoon street. the
| cost of the pavement so far allowed
by the council is as follows;
Kansas avenue SIG, 3O7.43
Third street .--..----.---- 1,8O4.O2
Eighth avenue to Lake St. 10,721.37
Eighth avenue, Lake to
cemetery $3.50. -..-.--. 1Z'S19-Z5
Adams street ......- 4,778-55
Alley ..--...-- ....-.... 1,525-49
s47.456.17
Not until June 27 will the city know
exactly how much the bond issue will
be. The city has to allow 80 days to
/ expire in which people can come in
/ and pay all their paving tax in a lump
for the entire ten years. Pavement
which is not thus paid out has to be
paid for with the bond issue. 1t is
probable that at~Ieast 10 per cent of
vance, so this would reduce the prob
able amount of the bond issue from
$46,456 to s42.710.56.
On next Friday May 27 City Clerk
Squires will send out notices to every
| property owner subject to tax for any
| of the 1904 pavement The property
owners then have 80 days in which
to come in and pay their paving tax
in full. and get the advantage of all
the discounts. Those who do not pay
up in full are put on the tax roll, and
pay their paving tax in ten annual
linstallments.
City Clerk Squires announces that
the people on Kansas avenue between
Thirteenth and Euclid will be allowed
ten days more in which to pay their
1 paving tax in full. Notices were sent
out to these property owners last
January. but owing to the delay in
/ the construction of the pavement, the
4 bonds have not yet been authorized.
So far only one taxpayer on Kansas
avenue has taken advantage of the
/ opportunity to pay the paving tax in
/ full. and save the ten years interest.
4 1t is doubtful whether any further
contracts for paving which the coun-
Gil may let this year can be included
/ in this first batch" If it is decided
| to allow the West Sixth or West
Twelfth petitions to go through. the
council Will probably have to make a
separate bond issue out of them This
would cause considerable extra annoy
ance. and would be one strong argu-
ment against allowing any more pave
ment this year.