Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-10-18
Council Transacts Business

the stone bridge at the West Side. |
Alderman Berndt spoke Of the insuf-
ficient width OF the roadway in intro
ducing the question and feared the |
danger to psdestriana and drivers
should there be no change made In
the plans. Mr.. Berndt had provided
himself with q plan OF the proposed
walk and sprung It on the council
with his proposition to add the walk
to the bridge.
Alderman West was opposed to the
proposition and said that II he had 70
do 1t at his own expense he would
enjoin the building OF the walk at the
present time. because he thought 1t
premature and unnecessary. The
same sentiments eminated from Al.
derman Balster. who cited the width
OF the London bridge. which he said
carries more traffic In day than the
Durango bridge would carry In year.
A general debate of the question was
carried on and motion made by AL.
derman Berndt that the walk be built
received no second and the matter
went over to another meeting.
City Engineer Wigglesworth added
his mite to the discussion by a state
ment that the bridge as 1t will stand
when completed will be amply wide
for the needs of the town for yenrs
to come. The roadway. when the
street railway track Is planked so
that vehicles can pass over them will
be wider by a considerable than was
the roadway Of the old bridge.
All the members OF the council
were present at the meeting except
Mayor Mcconnell. whose place was
taken by Mayor Pro Tenn Berndt
After the reading of the minutes IL
censes were granted r. Y. Fuel and
John Males for express wagons and
to Isgar and Gillespie. w. C. Rogers.
Jacob Doll 4 Co. and G. r. Walter 4
Co. for retail liquor licenses.
The license OF II. D. Mcbride was
transferred to J. H. Hawkins.
Bids for stone tagging were opened
and the award OF the contract was
made. John ]. McKinnon receiving
same at 20 cents per square foot.
Adrianson and Starr had In a bid at
81 cents a foot and an additional
tender to furnish the tagging and lay
the same at 25 cents a foot. This
bid caused some discussion as to
whether it would be fair to give the
contract to Adrianson and Starr. but
since the item of laying was not in
ciuded In the advertisement for bids,
the contract was given Mr.. McKinnon
as the lowest bidder under the adver.
tisement.
There was a bid to furnish con-
crete crossing as sample by Mr..
Caterer which was accepted and the
walk will be built at the intersection
of Ninth street and Main avenue. be.
tween the First National bank and
Kruschke's store, where the traffic Is
particularly heavy and where there
viii consequently be good test OF
the durability OF the concrete in cross
walks. The price was made 21 cents
per square foot but Mr.. Caterer had
1t understood that this price is made
only on this one walk, which is put in
experimentally.
Alderman Casey placed himself on
record as being in favor Of the tear
Ing out Of all defective crossings and
favored the notification OF the people
that the city will not be responsible
for accident or injury incurred on one
OF the bad walks.
Bids for the furnishing of l2.inch
sewer pipe were opened and read. the
contract was given the Jackson
Hardware and Implement company at
46 cents foot I. o. b Durango with
an addition of per cent for insur-
ance against breakage. Bids by w.
g White and Jakway were 4Sk cents
and 4sh cents foot respectively.
J. c. Bradley was granted rebate
of water rent on his house when he
shall have paid the same. The mat.
ter OF the use Of water by Mr. Brad
ley was investigated by Alderman
Rivers. who reported In favor OF the
allowance. The water rent must be
first paid to the superintendent of the
wsterworks. then rebated. because II
allowed before II Is paid the ordin.
ance viii Interfere.
Measures were discussed TO hurry
the work on the Main avenue bridge.
1t being proposed to notify Contractor
McKinnon that the expense of the
engineer would be deducted from the
payments on the contract II greater
progress was not made. The matter
was deferred for three weeks on mo
tion OF Alderman Rivers. The city is
paying the engineer $3.50 per month to
superintend the construction of the
bridge. which should have been COM
pleted under the contract on June 1.
4. was thought this expense should be
hnFnA hV tho oot< II.