The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-11
ENGINEERS REPORT
TO THE COMMITTEE
Worthy Of Careful Reading by
Grenada Citizenship-Means
Granolithic Sidewalks.

columns, the City Council appoint
ed special committee to con-
slider the construction Of concrete or
granolithic sidewalks at its meeting
on Feb. 6. In the discharge OF its
duty that committee saw proper to
have a partial survey made of Depot
and a few other streets Of the city.
Below is report OF the engineer who
did the surveying, which we publish
by request of the City Council:
Gentlemen:-I have the honor to
submit the following report OF my
work and investigations in reference
TO street and sidewalk improvements
in your city:
FirSt-I find an urgent necessity
for thorough and systematic survey,
placing iron or some other permanent
monuments at the intersections of the
center lines of all streets, with accu-
rate measurements between each mon
ument, recording all angles at street
intersection, and locating all monu-
meutS to the nearest permanent OBJ
jects, such as fire hydrants, telephone
or telegraph pcles, house corners or
fence posts, and preserving these rec
ords with an accurate plat, showing
all the streets and alleys and sizes of
blocks as found by such survey.
Then an accurate line of levels
should be run over all the streets and
the principle alleys, and profiles made
and grades established; in establishing
these grades, the present buildings
and sidewalks should be considered as
much as possible so as not to damage
them ia any way more than absolutely
necessary. / suggest that the city
employ a first-class engineer TO do this
work before any public work is enter
ed into extensively. This can be done
with small outlay OF money, and in
my judgment is of incalculable inter-
est to the city. After having your
street lines located and grades estab-
lished, then proceed with your grad
ing, curbing and paving. All street
Improvements, in my opinion, should
precede sidewalk improvements.
In making hurried survey OF De-
pot street from Main street TO the [.
G. Railroad find a surplus OF 3 10 #.
between Main and Kershaw streets.
This surplus should be prtrated in
each block, according to length. This
would make the blocks from Main
street to Church street 200. 10, from
Church street TO Mound 209. 10,
Mound to, Levee 209.1O and from
Leyee to Kershaw 418.22 It. l ran
|4ine Of levels and cross-secti0ned Depot
street from Main street TO the /. G.
r. r, and made profile Of same.
Beginning the levels on the iron
door sill OF brick buildings on the
north east corner of Main and Depot
streets at an assumed elevation of 200
It.
Approximate estimate of cost of
grading, curbing and grayeling Depot
street to L. G. Railroad:
Grading the full widthl494 #.
estimated only $3.50. 90
2, ,921 lineal feet of combined
concrete, curb and cutters
at CSC per lineal foot -. /, 1898. 65
A. $40 square yards of gravel
roadway at 40c per square
ward /. .804. 90
16a lineal feet of As inch two
ring cylindrical brick cul-
verts between Levee and
Kershaw streets at S7.00per
lineal foot .......s.,.. ll5.50
Two inlets TO culyert, $1,000
each 1880. 1000
Retaining walls at each end.
s24. 90. 4s.oo
Two inlets to calvert between
Church and Mound streets
ats1o. 90 each -. 1000
Concrete cutters across Church
Mound and Kershaw streets
4S6 square feet, at 20c.. 97.20