Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-03-21
THE COST.

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'25a@7' City Engineer.
- s':' THE COST, !
Granting the necessity Of a sewer
age system, the important feature to
the citizens and tax payers must be
it's cost. Your committee find this
perhaps one Of the most dificult
questions which they were called upon
to ascertain. However, we secured
data as to cost from one Of the lead
ing engineers Of the United States
government; also from the construct
ing quartermaster at Fort Lincoln;
from q gentleman who has had con-
siderable experience in this line at
Fort Smelling: from one of the lead
ing sewerage engineers t,of North Da-
kota and from two of the leading CON
tractors Of our state. Their estimates
did not vary as much as one might
expect and, in the figures which We
present below, we have taken in each
case the highest estimate given us.
On tho tentative plans fled with
this council. which show the main or
trunk sewer passing west on Main
street, with two main branches run
ming therein on Third and Fourth
streets, and with the balance Of the
city connecting to these three
branches. the cost per running foot,
as estimated by your committee and
returned to this council. is as follows:
Main street. q 15-inch sewer, 2,
e per running TOO. .....:.... $3.50
Third street, Z 10.inch sewer, - ri
per running foot, 49,. j. :. 100
Fourth street, 1o-inch sewer, =
per running foot. 500. 49,. /. 90
Balance Of city, an s-inch sewer, s4:1
per running foot, -. -. sa. IS
Granting these figures to be approx
imate1y correct, in detail, the cost
would be as follows:
Distance from Ninth street to Man
dan avenue, 3,340 feet at $3.50, cost,
5000. r.. rs la
Distance from 7Mandan avenue to
Missouri river, 4,7oo feet, cost $1,000,
estimated. -
Eight man-holes would be required
from Ninth street to Mandan avenue,
at a cost of $500; making the total
cost of the trunk sewer from Ninth
street to the river, distance OF s,04o
feet, $12,410., The, property between
Ninth street and Mandan avenue
would be obliged to- bear q portion of
this cost. Estimating that a commit
tee on assessment would figure the
, benefits to the property at one dollar
per foot, would give 1890 to be de-
Quoted from the total cost of the main
sewer, leaving the city of Bismarck,
as a city, liable for 5000. For the
sake OF even money and to allow for
engineering expenses and contingent
cies not now suggested, your commit
tee has estimated the cost to be
SO, 200. ,":.- s-''.'t' Us ! 49,. ~
What would be the cost to tie city,
per year, on this basis, Of the main
sewer? To: construct this, system, IN
der our statutes, your council, by
sanction Of the electors. is permitted
to issue twenty-year obligations bear
ing i've per cent interest. This
would make the annual interest tax
$780," To provide for retiring these
bonds at maturity sinking fund Of
1926 per year would be necessary. This
would make the cost to the city, as a.
corporation, and the amount to be
, paid per annum. 1925 a year. r.
The next question is what would it
cost the individual tax payer. along
! the front Of whose property a sewer
might run. Taking the highest price,
or 81 q foot, will give cost to each
Twenty-Five foot lot Of 1880, being
one half Of the cost Of the sewer for
that distance, the lots on each side Of
the street paying Tor the lateral dis
lance. The highest amount, then,
that any one man would be called up
On tospay fora sewer ID front OF his
property would be s$13,5D for each
Twenty-Five running feet This could
be paid at once. orr seufar vzarran%s
could be issued. running over period
||B sof twenty years. bearing Dix Per cent
interest on the deferred payments.
These warrants can be taken up at
any time. and the interest charge ther,
By stopped. r. any property owner
desired to let the matter run the fall5
twenty years. he would have "a aver
lssge Of sixty per cent interest on $12.5o,
log. interest and principal. Of $40 In,
the twenty years: N average .of 41i