The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-21


er, but rather expend their money
on straight levee enlargement work
within the Drainage District. The
City being limited legally as to the,
amount of money 1t can raise. it
would have been necessary to. trans.
fer funds from the District, =, thus
bringing about other legal eompli,t.
rations. hence further cohferenees +,
were had with the government len- ..
gineers. resulting finally in their acf.g
1ceptanee Of the greater part odrths !.
proposed work within the s.C:ty slim. y
its. 20 .e ls.,.,,ns
Under recent date Cols Jeryey ads
vised as follows: Il have examined
the plan prepared by thesAtillerIEx-
gineering Company. ands AZ ean
recommend the acceptanoeIuswith
possibly a few minors .chauges,sof
! all the concrete wall except ethe isecss
, tion from Sta. "A to Sta. SS-4S."
Although. so far as WEI know Htlthis
: time, the Department at Washington
has not officially approved the plans
of Co.. Jervey. 1t is reasonably cers
tain that they WILL M - ~ ~
Conferences were had with the
chief engineers of the several rail-
lroad companies, resulting I'm their
officially approving fhe general
lplans for the work. and these I'M the
lefty of Cairo are about as foflows:'
ta) Between the Ohio River
bridge and the upper end or the con-
crete wall; raise in ordinary man.
1 ner the levee to 81 feet oil the saiage
land such tracks of the Illinois Cen
trial Railroad Co. as fall in iint.
using ( concrete. retaining walls
where it is Impossible to place earth
on account of Insufficient room.
/ tbl Raise and strengthen the
lpresent concrete wall.
i tc) Beginning at the lower end
,'of the wall. continuing around the
Halliday Elevator and west along
The railway embankment TO point
about one-half mile west of the
elevator. build ordinary enlargement
work.
!, Beyond this point and continuing
, along the Mississippi levee and north
| to the Cross Levee no work is need
ed because all OF the line Is above
{ 1.-The proposed grade corresponding to
81 feet on the gauge.
) The original plans provided for
piling at the top OF the wall. par.
tieularly along that part between
: Eighth and Fourteenth streets, or
where the same is designated as the
5 high wall This piling the govern
. ment engineers advise they IRE Iun-
( able to recommend as beingh naces-
: sary part OF the leyee construction.
I 1t is hoped, however, that the Bids
i Twill be such that sufficient funds
$ Twin be available for the eonstrnc-
| ton of this piling. as II will give
/ additional security against gslpeage.
: which develops at each high water.
The original estimates provided
also Tor paving. either with RIP rap
Tor REINFORCED concrete, the from.
Islope wherever new material IL
: placed Ii is probable that the
h government engineers win hot sec
q their way clear to the doing or this
: paving.
I. However, in this connection their
/. lestimate OF the total cost for the
4 work they propose is approximately
I$f25.0o0.00, while the estimate as
!. Originally submitted amounts TO APP
6 proximately $I75, oOo.0e so that un-
: der !. the present assessment plan
There will be sufficient. money for
the city to do this additional work.
liz it is deemed necessary.
!. As compared with the, total estl-
mated cost for all OF the WORK. that
@ within the city proper will run be-
K tween one-fourth and one-third of
! 1.-THE total, and it seems, therefore,
e that reasonable subdivision of the
h general expense for superintendent.
n Engineering. &c would be one-thir1
i lin the city and two-thirdsa in the
drainage District. ia'f
\ Although the plans and estimates
i have been worked up In detail. this
+ fstatement Is in general only because
L of the fact that the U. s. engineers
e will doubtless change the details in
y a minor way. Very respectfully,
O MILLER ENGINEERING co.
ri BY CHAS. r. MILLER.
Alderman Walsh moved the re-
+ Iport be received and published with
q the proceedings. The motion was
!. adopted by the following vote ).
il Aye Cox, Flack, Fry GFeaney,
Il Hnrd, Kelly, Magnera Nicholson,
B Nee, Saup. Serbian and Walsh4+l2
/; iNay--None. SiT 9S-es
/ Alderman Walsh . moved to adj
: Eiourn. The motion was adopted.