Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-16
PROPOSITION IS
ACCEPTED BY OWN
ERS OF PROPERTY
Ninth Avenue Project Nears
Final Settlement Through
Action of People.
SELL AT SIS FRONT FOOT
Want Matter Closed So That Improve
ments May Be Started-To
Cost City $4,000.


OF the 30-foot strip Of property along
the south side of Ninth avenue be-
tween Nineteenth and Seventeenth
streets will be completed this week,
for at yesterday afternoon meeting OF
the municipal commission, Mayor H.
NJ. Schriver presented an agreement
signed by Ninth avenue property own
ers who are involved, stating that they
would accept the city's proffered price
of IS per front foot for the strip. Ac-
cordingly, the mayor and Commission
er NJ. T. NRudgren as city clerk were
authorized TO enter into final agree
ment and the contract and deeds will
be arranged this week. The people
who sell this strip Of property are de-
sirous of beginning improvements at
once and 1t Is possible that sidewalks
will be laid within a very short time.
The thoroughfare Is to be further i'm
proved by the laying of 16-inch water
main. Paving improvements will
probably be deferred until the coming
year.
TO COST $1,000.
The cost of the opening and widen
ing of Ninth avenue through this
means will aggregate nearly $4,000.
Non-interest bearing vouchers will be
given to insure payment. The widen
ing CT the avenue will give to the city
a uniform thoroughfare from Twelfth
to Twenty-fifth street and if paved
will provide one of the most attractive
drives in the city. At present, be-
side being Of irregular width, the
street is unpaved, the property own
ers along the narrow strip have no
sidewalks fronting their property and
adequate water main provisions are
cut OF at Twentieth street.
IMPROVEMENTS CONSIDERED.
Paving improvements. aggregating
an estimated cost Of s76,o52, were read
by Mayor Schriver for consideration
yesterday afternoon. The estimates of
City Engineer Wallace Treichler, to-
gether with ordinances which he pre-
pared, were considered and laid over,
under the rules, for a week The i'm
provements and estimates are as fol
! lows:
Twenty-third street between Second
and Fourth avenues. paved with brick
= on a concI etc foundation. Estimate
cost. SS.3N6.
Third avenue between Fifteenth and
. Twenty-fourth streets and Eighteenth
street and between Third and Fourth
: avenues, paved with brick on a con.
crete foundation. Estimated costs
$3S.s3O.
| Twenty-fourth street between Third
| and Fifth avenues, paved with brick
| on concrete foundation. Estimated
! cost, $G,O7O.
Nineteenth street between Second
I and Third avenues, paved with brick
on concrete foundation Estimated
t cost. 5000.
: Twentieth street between First and
: Second avenues. paved with brick Oh
concrete foundation. Estimated
!, cost, s7006
: Twentieth street between Second
: and Fourth avenues, paved with as
i phalt. Estimated cost, $12,S10.
The instructions to the city attor
ney, ]. F. Witter, TO prepare an ordi
SldIu.
r Of the Union Electric Telephone anC
o Telegraph company were reported t.
have been undertaken but final repor
is deferred, pending further investiga
g ton.
I WANTS LEVY CHANGED.
Charles Paulsen, owner of a strip o
property between Sixteenth and Eigh
teenth avenues on Thirty-second street
spoke before the commission yester
day afternoon, seeking to have tn
Waterman assessments of the distric
d In which he lives levied in proportion
n commensurate to the amount of front
X age. He aid his assessment is $40
II and that at of John Schaefer, owl
II er of more than twice as much proper
L ~ Is only little more than that. Tn
commission is to look into the matte
tomorrow afternoon when an informa
session 10 consider sewer improv,
re mentS VIII be held