Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-07
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.

municipal improvements have been
made in Wausau, and withal it has been
very busy season. Wausau is grow
ing, and public improvements must he
kept up with the city's pace. The cost
of all improvements, public and pri-
vate, will foot up to sum which would
surprise most people. One small item
alone may be mentioned-sidewalks
Several miles of cement sidewalks were
laid during the year. Building opera
tions have extended the city's growth
to the outskirts of the limits. The Wis
consin Valley Trust Co.'s building, the
raising of the federal building. the con-
struction of the new plants of the Wis
consin Box and Lumber Co., the Wan
sau Quartz Co., F. Schubripg Lumber
Co., Northern Boiler and Structural
Iron Works, st. Mary's hospitsl, the
Y. Nj. G. A. building and many other
enterprises have contributed much to
the city's growth aud prosperity. Now
we come to municipal improvements
The First-Seventh ward steel bridge
has been repaired, twenty additional
arc lights have been hung; two miles uf
sewers have been laid; practically two
miles of new water mains were put in
the ground; the drive well system fully
connected and over mile and half
of macadam streets constructed.
The city at present has 140 arc lights,
or one for about every ITO of popula-
ton. Few other cities are so well
lighted and very few have so many
lights proportionate to their population.
Sewer work progressed fast during
the summer, and was only hampered at
times on account of the scarcity of
labor. AS it was, the contractors COM
pleted large portion of their contracts
and will finish early next summer.
The largest sewer land was on Seventh
street, where 36-inch pipe was con-
nected with the Stinchfield creek drain.
The East hill water main extension
was taken up in the spring and carried
from the pumping station down Bridge
and Seventh streets to the intersection
CT Mcclellan. This work was then tenn
porarily dropped and that of connect
ing the remaining unconnected drive
wells taken up, causing return to the
old well water. When the drive well
system was complete, the crew was
again put on the Fast hill extension and
the pipe line carried from the corner of
Seventh and Mcclellan east on the lat
ter street, aross the railroad tracks and
up the hill to within sixty feet Of Muen-
cho street, when cold weather inter-
fered and stopped work. This work
will be carried to completion next sea-
son. Other mains were laid from Maple
and Fourth Ave. two and one-half
blocks north, $4,000 feet from Garfield
and Fifth Ave. to Porter and Fifth Ave,
900 feet; one block north from Fifth
and Hamilton Sts., 300 feet; from
Seventh to Ninth on Steuben, !, 200 feet;
from West and Fourth Ave-, one block
south, 600 feet, or over two miles of new
pipe diJoRetueI.
Macadam work was confined mostly
this year to the Improvement of three
streets, Fifth street, Grand Ave. and N.
Third street. On Grand Ave. 26, 546
square yards of macadam was laid on
5,942 lineal feet of street, at a cost of
$13, 707 As on Fifth street 7,740 so. yds.
at cost of S4,021.16, was spread over
1926 ineal feet of street on Third
street 2,S6S so. yds. of macadam, laid
on 964 lineal feet of street cost 81, ,718.40.
OF this cost, the sum of 81 $3.50 was
charged to the Wausau Street Railroad
Co. Besides this, the city has performed
work on other streets for the same COM
pany and the amounts charged against
it are as follows: