The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-06-14
Property Owners: Attention.

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erty fronts Columbia street from
Main street west to the City limits
and to those whose property fronts
the Court House square:
In response to your petition, We.
the Mayor and Board Of Aldermen
OF the City OF Pennington. herewith
submit to you the initial facts con.
corning the Improvement OF the
streets on which your property fronts.
In order 10 procure from you some
expression OF your opinions as to the
style Of improvement desired, before
we proceed, under the law. to haye
this improvement made First, W.
submit to you the report of the En-
gineer, which we ask You to read
carefully, as 1t should help you IN
making your choice.
Report Of Engineer.
ITO the Honorable Mayor and Board
of Aldermen, Pennington, Mo:
"Gentlemen.--We herewith submit
report on paving Of Columbia street
and around the Court House Square
GRADES.
The grades of the new curb comes
better than would naturally be ex.
pected when 1t is taken into consid.
GRAFTON that until seven or eight
years ago no grade had been estab-
lished, although good many perma.
nent walks had been built. Those
built since then are much more uni.
form, though in general considerably
higher than the established grade
In fixing the grade OF the new curb
we have kept II as close to the
grade of the present walks as Is DOS.
sible and have a good looking i'm.
prOvement II Is very bad for i'm
proved property to have the sidewalk
raised or have the curb built higher
than the sidewalk and this has been
avoided almost entirely. This natur.
ally makes the new curb come below
the present sidewalks to the extent
Of nearly foot at few places, but
this cannot be helped. and as there
is generally four feet space between
new curb and the present walks, It
gives chance to slope up from the
curb. or In some cases to lower the
sidewalk whenever Il Is reconstruct.
cd. BY having the new curb built ut
a short distance from the present
walks, the Irregularities Of both the
line and grade on the present walks
VIII disappear.
ALIGNMENT.
The lines of the new curb when
in place will be all that could be de.
sired anywhere from Main street to
Division street. The proportion be-
tween sidewalk space and driveway
VIII be up to the best standards and
the room between curbs is sufficient
for all practical purposes West of
Division street the space between
curbs narrows down loo much to
make any more than 2S feet between
curbs after passing west Of Cayce av-
enue and on to point 200 feet west
OF Short street, without moving from
100 to 300 feet Of walk on the east
side of the street, so in arranging the
curb lines we have kept II to 2S feet
west of Cayce avenue. This arrange
ment VIII take out all of the little an.
giles in the present line of walks and
will give straight lines on curb
throughout except on curve between
CONCRETE CROSSINGS.
The concerto crossings on the
streets are all right for foot passen.
gers, but they are very much In the
way OF a uniform pavement and on
Henry. Jackson, Washington, Jeffer-
son, Liberty. Franklin and First strts.
we would recommend that they be
removed, as they can probably be
used to advantage on other street
crossings We do not want to be
understood as condemning this sort
II street crossings for unpaved strts..
FOR they are all right for their pur-
pose, but It would not be good judg. |
nent to try to make them fit In with
permanent Improvement. On the |
other streets and alleys we think |
hat on account OF taking care of |
drainage, that II will he best to try |
% 1T the pavement and the cross.
ngs together and utilize them.
DRAINAGE.
In. order to take care OF the sur. |
ace water. 1t win be necessary to |
make inletg at the NE. and NV. |
corners of the Court House square,
II the S.W. corner of Jefferson and |
liberty street intersection, at the
wv. and s. w. Corners of Columbia |
md Franklin street intersection. at
he most northCrly corner of the in.
erscction OF Columbia street and the
trcet cast Of Swink avenue. These
nlots TO be connected to short
stretches OF sewer to be built 10 load
uriacr water to nearest walercourse
'r in that direction.
CURB AND GUTTER
we recommend combination |
'urb and gutter for this Improvement
u account of It's cheapncss and |
strength when properly built and al |
go on account Of It's good appearance
and durability. The section recon.
mendcd is heavier than that In com.
mon use, but with the good material
for making the curb and gutter close
at hand we know that ii Is still cheap.
err than any curb you can use. 1t
must be built properly and the full