The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-08-22
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS;
STREET PAVING.

\ ocuiu VI i<oSui improvements VI 'hc
city OF Cairo, Illinois. that ltemiznd,
sealed bids Will be received by IL I'm.
/ I'll the hour OF ten o'clock a. m. Of Fri.
day. August 23rd, A. ID. 1907, for the
construction OF the following local i'm
|provement In said city Of Cairo.
namely:
A vitritled brick pavement with a
combination concrete curb and gut
ter on each side thereof. upon Wash
ineton avenue, from the north line OF
Second street to the north line OF
IThirty-fifth street, in said city OF
Cairo.
The said brick pavement, including
| the concrete curb and gutter on each
side thereof, shall be Of the width Of
thirty-four (34.) feet on each side OF
the center line Of the said Washing
ton. avenue, from the north line Of
said second street to the north line
Iof Center street extended eastwardly,
and for the width of twenty COO feet
on each side OF said Washington ave-
niue from line distant ten 10) feet
from the center line of said Washing
ton avenue, from the north line OF
said Center street extended eastward
ly to the north line Of said Thirty
fifth street.
Nine and one-half (91a) feet on
each side of the center line of said
Washington avenue, OF said brick
pavement ON said Washington avenue,
from the south line of Sixth street to
the north line of Twentieth street.
shall be constructed by the Cairo
Electric and Traction Company at its
own cost and expense and shall not
be included in the contract to be let
for the making Of said local improve
ment.
From the said north line Of said
Center street extended easwardly to
the north line OF Thirty-hfth street,
except at all intersecting streets, on
each side of the center line of said
Washington avenue at the distance
Of ten t10) feet from the center line
of said avenue concrete curb shall
be constructed on said avenue and
said concrete curb shall be six (G1
inches wide and seventeen (1O
inches deep and shall extend six t6) |
inches above the top surface Of the
pavement. AT all street in
tersections said concrete curb shall
be extended around and meet the
curb on the opposite side of the ave-
nue. at the center line of said avenue, |
being turned at all corners with
curves of four ca feet radius.
That portion of said Washington
avenue between the north line OF said
Center street extended eastwardly
and the north line Of Thirty-flfth
street which Is to be inclosed, or sur
rounded by said concrete curb, viz:
by said concrete curb, viz.
ten d0) feet on each side Of the CEN
shall not be paved. except at street
burt the rame shall be
cxcavated to a depth Of six tG) inches
only above the top surface of the
brick pavement when the same is
and shall be left to be
used asa grass plat.
The said vitrified brick pavement
md combination concrete curb and |
gutter shall, at all street iiitersec-
ions, be extended around. with
curves of eight go feet radius, and |
,ut to the lot line on both sides of |
he street, so that the distance be-
.ween the curbs at the lot lines shall
be thirty (3o) feet apart or fifteen
i15) feet from the center line, on all |
streets sixty tG0) feet
vide, except Eighth street where the
distance between curbs shall be
.hirty-six (3Gl feet or eighteen f1S) |
'eet ON each side of the center line Of
Iaid Eighth street, and at the inter
section of all streets fifty t50) feet |
vide the distance between the curbs
hall be twenty-four (2D feet. or
welye f12l feet on each side of the
enter line of said intersecting streets, |
md at the outer edge of the said
rick pavement as extended, natural
limestone marginal curbs, six co /
lCHtS WluS anu lNtEft VIZ ihtHtS
Ieep. shall be set between the paving
md the natural earth, ON a natural
'arth foundation, and flush with the
anne at the top.
Two (2t brick catch-basins shall be
n each block on each
ide of the said Washington avenue.
,etwecn the said north line OF Second
treet and the said north line of
street
All OF the twenty-eight t2S) present
Existing manholes, in said avenue,
hall be built mp to the level Of the
completed brick pavement with hard
'urned brick, laid in Portland cement
Mortar, and the insides thereof shall !
We plastered with Portland cement |
mortar; and the said manholes shall
Re fitted with cast iron rings and /
overs of not less than three hundred
300) pounds combined weight each.
Said local Improvement shall be
In compliance with the
erms and provisions of Ordinance
10. 141 of said city OF Cairo, adopted
fay 20. 1907. and approved May slst,
s07.
Itemized. sealed bids will be re.