The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-11
COST OF DIKES.
Board OF Reviewers Report
$117, 900 for South Side.
Declare Cost Nothing Compared
to Benefit.
A.DRAINAGE DISTRICT
One Will Be Created by Com
missiOnerS
As Result of Petition by Prop
erty Owners.
.DRAINAGE DISTRICT

The cost of building a South side
Kaw river dixie is estimated at Sllf ,4So'ou
by the board of reviewers consisting
of W. c. Stephenson. r. A Rlcharosoii'
and A T. Lucas. The reviewers were
appointed after the commissioners hdo
received a petition for such dixie mead
ed by Chas. Wolff and signed by several
hundred property owners along the NV
er. The property to be benented py
the construction is estimated at OIL
p47, SOS. x,,
the Rock island bridge at point near
the foot of Tyler street TO point IA
the middle of Adams street near the
Santa Fe shops. ,uo
that the value of the dixie to the pro
perty owners will be incalculable' glVlns
l. as their opinion that one hooo Sucli
as that of 1903 would inhict more ue,ii
age than would pay for the construc-
ton of this protection for years 10 come,
recommending that the cost would not
be too burdensome and urge ina ene
PRAYER of the petitioners be granted.
The dixie as proposed VIII CONSIST u
ii 2qS cubic wards of earth embankmenI
Al 70 cents or $25, 075.60; 4,285 feet or con-
crete wall at 81 per running 1901 or
1875, and $50 cubic YARDS Oh FeNe'
ment wall at $3.50 or $2,3SO.
Where the first attack of the water Is
fo he met at the western end Z,l40 reef
of concrete will be used ana zioo ISet
more at the eastern end where the olhe
will approach the river in a nor merry
direction from the corner of the santa
Fe shops The revetment wall WIN De
constructed on either side OF Kansas
avenue. connecting the dixie walls Win
the abuttments of the Meian priuse.
The earth entertainments will In places
reach a height of II feet and Will an
the way have a crown of 20 feet WIDTH.
There are thirty tracts OF properly
along the river upon which the olhe
will be built. The damage to these
over the benefit is placed at $500, ap-
portfoned as follows: City of Topeka
on eight tracts, 1912; Stewart-Peck
Sand company, on six tracts, S1St
Chas. WoIff, on eleven tracts, 1921;
Hiram Root. on two tracts, $3.50; Kaw
Valley Sand Co., on one piece, $lO0; +.
r Wear. on one piece, 800; and the
Rock Island railway company, $1,000,
To provide for the expense of the
drainage benefit district will be created
by the board of commissioners embrace
ing all the properties protecsed ana
benefited thereby. The boundary of
benefit district beginning at First ana
Tyler streets on the west takes dag |
onal. course southeast, crosses Kansas
avenue three lots north of Second street |
and ends at the corner of Third and
Adams streets.
The Shawnee board of commissioners
have ten days time in which to look
over the project and consider the pro-
position. 1t is quite likely that it will
require the full time for the report is
in detail and comprehendS all the min
ute as well as larger items in the con-
struction, material, labor, benefit and
valuation.
Plans and blue prints have been sup
piled by ". r. Parkhurst, county en-
gineer, and the report was the work OF
Edwin A. Austin who has made an ex-
haustive compilation.