The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-17
PUBLIC WORK FOR
SEASON FINISHED
GREAT NUMBER OF BIG UNDER
TAkINos CARRIED TO sue.
cEssFUL CONCLUSION IN
NcOck.

With the completion of the big mil
lion gallon reservoir on the hill and
the flnishing out OF the Front street ill,
the outdoor work on city improve
ments for the present year Is prac-
tically terminated. The only work re-
manning is that on the new pump
house for the electric pump of the No
system, on which the contractors,
Verville Brothers. are now engaged.
The seasons work has been of great
magnitude, comprising some of the
greaters undertakings that the city
has attempted in years and running up
i'm costs to many thousands of dollars,
the waterworlSs. mains, etc, costing
about fifty Thousand. the Front street
MI nearly fifteen thousand, and side
walk nineteen Thousand.
The city has done considerable in
the way of road building during the
summer in the outlying sections, a
road roller purchased early in the sum-
mer doing good service I'm improving
many hitherto wretched thoroughfares
and demonstrating its value to the city.
The details preliminary TO erecting a
new fire hall in West Hancock have
been satisfactorily disposed of and
the foundation for the building exca-
waited upon the lots donated by the
quincy Mining company.
It had been expected that something
might be done towards repairing the
asphalt pavement on quincy street,
but delays of various kinds occurred
urtil the season became too far adj
vanced. The new heavy steel rails for
the traction company's lines through
Quincy street have been i'm hand for
some time and early i'm the coming
spring il is expected to get the work
started and carried to completion,
making practically a new pavement.
Quincy street has been improved by
The substitution of a handsome system
Of boulevard tungsten lamps in place
of the ornamental incandescent strings
that had been feature of the city's
illumination for the past seven years.
The charge has given To- the principal
business section of the city a metro
politan aspect, taken together with the
removal of all the unsightly wooden
poles and the running of the tele-
phone and telegraph wires in sub-sur-
face condults.
Next summer the placing of wires
will be continued further west until all
of Quincy street between Reservation
and Elevation streets has been cleared
of superiuous wires and poles Paving
work is also contemplated upon a
large scale, taking i'm besides the re-
pairs to Quincy street already referred
to, all OF East Hancock and Front
street and Reservation from the Bank
corner to the county bridge, straight
ening and widening the latter thor
oughfare and completing the work OF
providing the city with concrete side
walks throughout.
The sidewalk work done in the city
during the year has been enormous,
the contract which was nearly COM
pleted this fall by A. w. Anderson *
Sons being the largest sidewalk con-
tract ever given by the city. During
the summer 107.336 square feet of ce-
ment walks were laid, ana HlOO square
feet of driveways, making a total OF
ia .436 square feet. This work has
cost $40, 5S3.36 so far, and there Is still
small amount more OF work to be
done. to complete which the contract
ors have been granted an extension of
time to July I. 1911. Next summer 1t
is expected that other contracts for
sidewalk work will Zoe let, so that by
the end OF the season there Will
scarcely he a street In the city with
ont good sidewalks. The work Is to
be paid for in five annual installments.
The streets on which walks were laid
this season are Church, Dakota, Ele-
walton, Elm, Franklin, Hancock, Lake,
Mesnard, Michigan, Montezuma, Ohio,
Quincy, Reservation, Ridge, Ryan
Scott Vivian and Water streets and
Cooper, Ethel, Harris and Mason ave-