The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-05-21
STREET PAVEMENT
AND new SEWER
COUNCIL DECIDES ON IMPORT.
ANT IMPROVEMENTS.
PROVIDE woRKFoR MANY MEN
Alley and Second Avenue To Be I'M
proved and South Spring Sewer
Ordered Buiit--Work
Starts At Once.

The city council at It's regular SEES
sion Monday evening heard the pro-
tests against the proposed improve
ment for Second avenue between A
street and First street Objections
were heard from Grin Lyon, who also
acted for Mrs. Josie Myers, owner OF
the old Stafford property in the block
west of the public library, and from
Clyde Pilgrim, who owns the old
Hurst property west of the Hotel La
cey and will have stretch OF one
hundred and twenty feet ON the street,
and one hundred and twenty feet of
alley paving to do. The complaints
all came from the property owners in
the half block west from the Hotel La
cey alley. The council gave consider.
alton to the objections raised but they
considered the Improvement public
necessity and the paving was ordered
in and the clerk was thereupon au.
thorized to advertise for bids.
The paving to be put in extends two
blocks, from the Congregational church
to the Elks building, and in the alley
back of the Hotel Lacey, from Sec,
ond avenue north to the alley inter.
section.
Sewer oruered Built.
The council after considerable de-
study and discussion fol
lowing a report on the South Spring
sewer" and laterals, ordered that the
report of the city engineer, Earle
be accepted and that his rec.
concerning the build
Ing of the same be followed. The
new sewer was therefore ordered to
be built and work upon the improve
ment will be commenced as soon as
tile can be secured. IL will be built
by the city itself by day labor under
he personal direction and supervision
Of the city engineer.
A special provision was also made
by the council that the men employed
lpon the sewer work be paid every
Saturday night. The estimated cost
VI the new sewer will be in the neigh
lorhood of twenty-three hundred dol
ars. 1t will accommodate that por.
ion of the city lying east of Market
street between Sixth and Ninth ave-
lues, and possibly east as far as Third
Or Fourth streets. The sewer is so
planned that all of the nuisances now
of as entering the South
Springs ravine will be abated
The building of an extension OF the
Train pipes now found in the South
Springs rayine" would cost eleven
hundred dollars, perhaps more, and
nothing would be accomplished ex-
,epting the conveying of sewage al.
'eady existing through a space Of
ew blocks, and very few new tap.
Iages could be secured. In the build.
ng of the sewer on Market street,
Sixth avenue and Eighth avenue, with
aterals on Second and other streets
IS required, the nuisance now in ex.
stence will be abated and relief from
Ill of the conditions complained of
Till be obtained. The cost of the
Iewer will be far less than the for
ner proposed route, when the revenue
derived from the building of the new
work is considered.
When the motion was made that the
plans as recommended by Mr.. Bridges
De adopted and that the sewer be con.
the council almost as one
nan heaVed a sigh of relief that the
burden had been lifted at last. The
question has been pending for the
last three or four years and the mat.
ter was down to the point where the
city was facing damage suit on ac
count of the nuisances created by the
open drains. . ...