The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-08


careful sitting has been able to make
them.
Frame buildings and resi-
dences s43,4OO
Brick buildings and resi-
dences 5000
Churches and schools 45,6OO
Building at jail 1000
City Hall 10000
Total 1866, 800 |
These statistics are for buildings
constructed or in process Of construc-
tion since March /, 1904. By going
back through the preceding season
the total is raised to more than
5000, 600
The public service corporations
have made very extensive improve.
meDts amounting in two cases almost
to reconstruction. The waterworks
company has made extensions amount
ing to between five and six miles Of
piping One Of these was the sixteen
inch intake pipe a mile long extended
to the current of the river. The
total expenditures on the waterworks
plant exclusive Of purchase price has
been $77 500
The electric light plant has been
practically rebuilt. Almost every
particular Of the old machinery has
been removed and new machinery
installed. The foundation is ready
for another $50 horsepower engine
and dynamo which will be installed
as soon as it can be sent from the
snops-within a month. The wiring
has been renewed, heavier poles set,
steel yard arms have replaced the
wire rope suspenders, new enclosed
arc lights have been put in, and the
plant brought up to high degree of
perfection Almost as extensive
improvements have been made in the
gas works, which are the property Of
the same company. Ola pipes have
been taken up and larger ones laid,
wide extensions have been made.
The total expenditures of this
corporation in permanent better
mentS amounts to about S65, 900.
Tae telephone company has made
four country line extensions of 35
miles, enlarged its city system by
about one-fourth, introduced two new
switch boards, and put in about six
thousand five hundred feet Of cable.
The permanent improvements and
engagements have been made at Q
cost OF about $4,000,
The street improvements consist Of
81 blocks of brick paving, l ! miles, and
8 blocks OF macadam paving, 3-5 of a
mile, done at a cost of S64, AGA,
including 18th street not vet finished.
Besides this, resolution has been
passed for the paving Of a part OF
Franklin avenue at an estimated cost
of about 81 1000 Grauitoid sidewalk
to the amount Of % miles has beer
laid and brick sidewalk to the amount
OF one mile, at cost of SIS, 200
Three miles Of granitoid curbing ha,
been put in at cost of $3.50 anC
about a mile OF stone curblng reset
Half mile Of sewer extension hal
been made to the system q
miles, at an expense of about 50, 900
The enormous total of these i'm
provements, especially public i'm
provement, 10 a city of 5000 inhab
itants, where The property valuation
is, according to the assessors book
only about 81, $50, 900 and where tht
annual revenue including licenses, I,
about S25, 900, would seem to iu
dicate lively spirit of improve
ment aud strong business confidence
1t is doubtful whether any othei
city in the state, great or small
can show a percentage so large. Il
will be seen that the total cost Of
public improvements is very greatly
less than the sum expended IL
private Improvements though The
figures in the former case extend owe
twoyears and in the latter case one
, year.
Meanwhile the bridge is yet in the
future and the railway station re.
mains the same.
! Mrs. Mary W Chew, who has beel
visiting relatives in Washington
] d. @ and her son, Frank, who is
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