The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-01-06

terson wholesale house and the other is
along the Great Western tracks at
Pike and Jackson streets. Both are
sides. The Standard Lumber company
has built coal shed along the Great
Western tracks, costing $3.50, similar
in construction to those of the Lampert
Lumber company.
In addition to what has been mention
ed there is number of small improve
ments, sheds, additions, and incipient
dwellings, the total value of which for
the year 1904 reaches over $4,000
Railroad improvements, though no
great item during the past year as they
were during the year previous, were
nevertheless something The new pave
ment of excellent brick around the Mil
waukee Great Western depot amounted
in value to about 5000 The Milwaukee
company has also put in gates at Main
street. The Great Western has laid new
tracks and changed others within the
city limits at an expense of about 3d.
600. Pike street has been given for
!, ty foot driveway by the moving of one
track. The company has laid sidewalks
and crosswalks about the freight depot
and in that vicinity costing in the neigh
borhood of $4OO The Omaha and North
western companies have spent about $500
in filling in Main street near the bridge,
widening the roadway east of the union
depot and sundry repairs. The Omaha
tracks have been taken from east of
Fourth street from Mulberry to Spring
and the lots thrown upon the market.
Street improvements form no small
part of the permanent betterment of
the city during the past year. Fifth
street has been macadamized, curbed and
guttered from Hickory to Spring, and
curbed, guttered and gravelled from
Spring to Madison avenue. The total
cost of these improvements has been
about $4,000
travelling has also been done on the
following streets: Fifth street from
Madison avenue to Lime street; Fourth
street from Lafayette avenue to Thomp-
sons creek Second street from Thomp-
son street to May street; Ann street
from Second to Third; Pleasant street
entire; Shaubut street entire; Florence
street entire; Record street from Lewis
to Shaubut; cost of all, $1,000.
Rhine street has been macadamized
from the top of Eagle Lake hill to the
city limits, twelve foot roadway; cost
$1,000. This is one of the most import
ant public improvements made during
the year.
CURLING and guttering in addition to
what was done on Fifth street reaches
a total of about 1000 feet, some of it be-
ing done by the city and some by the
property owners. The cost of this work
is about 1860. 1t has been nearly all
done with cement.
The city has put in what amounts to
about two and seven-tenths miles of &C.
ment sidewalks, six feet wide, at an as
sessed value of $500. This is about one
fourth the total amount of sidewalk
layiuu fbot hoe boop 1ono About 10,
, and four-ffths miles of such sidewalks
have been laid in the city during that
year. at total cost of about $4,000.
On Willard and Fulton streets have
been put in five hundred feet of sewer.
costing $3.50.
Eight hundred feet of water mains
have been laid from the gas works to
the pumping station, and a hundred and
fifty feet more on Rock street from
Front to the Northwestern railroad
tracks, the total cost of the new mains
being about $3.50.
Liberty street has been opened from
Front street to A street and graded at a
cost of $3.50. Wilton and Lafayette
streets have been graded and at the
same time Front street at the slough has
been strewn with boulders, which have
been broken up and rolled; total cost
$500. Poplar street has been graded
at an expense of $4,575. The Main street
bridge has been repanked and the inn
provements on the bridge during the
year have not been far from 81 200 in
cost The new cell in the city hall up
stairs for the detention of women has
cost the city $40.
IN NORTH MANkATO.