Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-03
IMPROVEMENTS
FOR The YEAR
MUCH NEW BUILDING IN THE
CITY OF oTTuMWA AND MANY
IMPROVEMENTS
The Greatest Single Item is Amount
Expended by ottumwa Railway G.
Light co.-Municipal Work is Ex-
tended-other Figures.

Hundreds Of thousands of dollars
have been expended in the city of OF
tumwa during the year which closed
at 10 o'clock last night, on new build
ings and new work of various kinds
and in improvements on private, cor
porafe and municipal property. While
there has not been anything like the
number Of new residences erected dur
ing 1906 that there was during 1905,
the amount of money expended, it is
estimated, would not fall so far be-
hind.
The greatest one item is the amount
of money expended in new work and
improvements by the Ottumwa Rail
way & Light Co. since that concern
purchased the buildings of the Ottum-
wa Traction & Light Co. A conser-
vatiye and comparatively accurate es-
innate places the amount of money
expended by this company in improve
ments and new construction at $780,
900,
What this company has done in OF
tumwa during the past year is stag.
gering when summed together. 1t has
built new car barn in the west end.
It has built and magnif1cently equipped
the new power house on the site of
the old and 1t has rebuilt the old Pot
ter building at the corner of Market
and Second streets, making it into one
of the finest street car railway and
electric light offices in the west. 1t has
extended the North Court street line
to the grounds of the Country Club 1t
has materially lessened the congestion
of cars on Market street by building
the loop" 1t has repaired and rebuilt
the tracks in many places and has
laid lines of new wires and is now es
tablishing a new power line.
. Four new open cars were added to
the rolling stock last summer and
three more modern and up-to-date cars
will be here some time this month.
Municipal Improvements
The amount of money expended in
municipal Improvements during the
year just closed far exceeds that of
1905. Approximately more than $780,
000 has been spent in paving, grading,
sewers and other municipal improve
ment work. The following table
gives estimated figures as to the
amounts expended in the various de-
partments Of municipal work:
Paving $4,000
Sewers ........ -. :. -. 10000
Grading ...... 80. -. 10000
Sidewalk commissioners Office ex-
pended in sidewalks and other I'M
provements, approximately 100000.
Other items of a more miscellaneous
nature will more than make the
amount run up to 100000.
Buildings of 1906.
Many new buildings have been
erected, begun or completed during
the last twelve months. The Ennis
building, the plant of the Ottumwa
Brewing & Ice Co., the latest large
building at the plant of John Morrell
& Co., Ltd, while included in last
years list of buildings, were complet,
ed this year. The new edifice of the
First Christian church, the new Taylor
building on Main street, taking
the place OF the one destroyed by fire
a new ice plant at John Morrell &
Co.'s, the Morris Williams sale payil
lion, and the new chapel at
he cemetery, are among the
aore important buildings that
we been constructed in 1906
new home of the OF
wa Country Club is another Of
years buildings. The foundation
. new Friends church has been
nd 1t Is now practically ready
work of construction of the
hurch building of the Willard