The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
Nearly a Half Million in City
Improvements.
Expenditures in Fiscal Year
Which Has Just Ended.
BULK is FOR PAVING.
Good Round Sum Also Put in
Sewers.
What 1t Costs to Keep Abreast
Of Times.

Fer public improvements during
1903-1904 the fiscal years ending with
April 1, 1904, and 1905, the city of To-
peka viii have and has paid out the
sum of S422. 652.44, nearly a half a mil
lion dollars. This grand total repre-
sents S137,216.40 in sewer contracts,
1926. $3.50 for paving and S37, 325.96 for
bridges, in addition to minor expendi-
lures for asphalt paving repairs, side
walk construction and routine repairs.
The following summary of the public
work under construction and completed
in the fiscal years ending with April
1 OF 1904 and 1905 respectively has been
made by City Engineer AGcCabe and his
force:
Pavements Constructed.
CFor Fiscal Year Ending April 1, 1s04.)
Jefferson street, Eighth avenue
to Tenth avenue. 350. so
Madison street Second to Third
street ......-.-... ......,....- 1903
Thirteenth street TT. ..... '..e.. 2os74se
to Huntoon street . ..i...'' s.a 5.a57.sO
Van Buren, street, Thirteenth
street to Huntington avenue. 11,131.76
Harrison street, Huntoon to
Huntington avenue -. 14.s45s1
Topeka avenue, DOuthitt Place
Huntington avenue ......... $3.50. %
Tyler street, Twelfth street to
Fourteenth ...-.... ....-..... 9,270.77
Tyler street, Second street to
Third ..---...--.- .-......-.-- 2,924.15
sixth -. ... = sssl8s
to Douthitt - ................... 11,794. SO
to DoutRitf ss'. -. .ss.'n 81 4,4o2.a2
Western avenue e ... = i-9 :. s,4s198
Seventh street Monroe street
to Madison .... - 2,o79.44
to Linden avenue HI5isli.-. .'.ss 8.588.81
Eleventh street, Quincy street
to Van Buren, .-..--....-.-.-. 5,fo6-tO
Total cost Of pavements laid during
fiscal year ending April 1, 1904, $685.
247.76.
(For Fiscal Year Ending April 1, 1869
to Euclid avenue. ............ SIS. 817. Is
Third street. Madison street to
Monroe street ................ 1,7S7.93
i to city limits . 9nansaluis s2.Oyolo
Adams street, Second street to
Fourth .......... ............. 4, 4S1.Sl
TIuntoon street, Jackson street
to Van Buren, -. .----.-.--.. 1,454.55
Alley, between Harrison street,
avenue, 11th-12th Streets. 1,420.37
Total cost OF payements laid during
fiscal year ending April 1, 1905. S47,-
O05.02.
me grand IOlaI Tor TWO years, @LtHy~
252.78.
In square yards the pavement enum-
Grated in the above represents SO, 401.27
square yards or "a blocks. The prices
contracted ranged from s1.19 per square
yard to S1.14 with curbing running from
43 cents to 591a per lineal foot.
Paving Contracted for But Not Com
pleted.
Contracts Let in 1869
Madison street. Eighth street
to Tenth Observation-Disclosures 6,5S3. so
Kansas avenue, Melan bridge
to present paving ...-........ 1,441.35
Jackson street, Huntoon to
twelfth ....--...... .......... 4't44'S5
II Thirteenth 80. i.i'.oo.. " 2.45s.o5
Fourth street ......,......... 2,Os2.7O
feenfh Street 'li ......,... 7,oss.s2
H Hum ss I'M. Inn asu ... =. s,ss282
o8d street s' s..ss' - .s s.ss5.o4
N Morris o avenue &c .. ,ir 8,955.24
Twelfth street. Quincy street to
Kansas avenue ..........---. 1,S8O.4S
to S' Jackson SON. e.ii..'s 's1 1e95.18
FfHh 80 ....'. - -. 5.85s.8s
Douthitt street, Western avenue
to Fillmore OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1,S6O.5S
Alley, east OF Kansas avenue,
Laurent street to Railroad. 2,049.32
Alley, west of Kansas avenue,
between Fourth and Fifth SITS. 1,427.57
Grand total cost of sewers and
pavement contracted for, $54,443.52.
Number of blocks of pavement con-
tracted for. IA.
All of the above pavement laid and
contracted to be laid is of vitrified
brick. manufactured here in the city.
The last of the contracts for paving
let was at the remarkably low cost
of S1.O91R per square yard, the low
est in the history of paving with brick
in this city.
The total miles of completed pave
ment is now 1901, with ITO miles
contracted for. making a complete
total of 39.7 miles of pavement which
the city of Topeka will possess at the
expiration of another year.
Many New Bridges.
During 1903 and 1904 no bridge
contracts of any considerable magni-