Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-04-17
PAVING
SURE GO
City Commissioners Have Set May
18th as Date for Opening
Street Paving Bids.
WILL PAVE TWENTY BLOCKS
Work viii be Well Under Way
by June lst. Kind Of Paving
Not Known at this Time.

The city commissioners met in reg
ular session last Monday evening and
spent several hours of good hard work
on the paving proposition The spec
ifications for the various kinds of
paving were acted upon and the city
auditor was instructed to secure bids
from the various local printing offices
for printing the same in book form.
Open Bids May IL.
The instructions to bidders were
also gone over, and May 18th was fixed
as the date for opening the bids.
Four different kinds of paving will
be bid on and each bidder will be
required to put up a certified check of
$4,000 on each separate bid as an
evidence of good faith on the part of
the bidder
viii Build curbs.
Resolution X4S requiring the con-
property in the paving district was
also passed last evening. The time
limit is May Is and if the curb is not
put in before that time the city VIII
proceed to do the work and assess
it against the property.
To Widen Sidewalk.
Resolution X49 in regard to the
widening of the sidewalks was also
passed naming the same date as the
limit within which the work must be
done. Resolution X5O passed at the
meeting, had ito do with the con-
struction of certain lateral sewers to
be constructed in the paving district
and which will be paid for by the
city out of its sewer fund.
To Lay Conduits.
Commissioner Snyder made mo-
ton to the effect that conduits should
be laid under the curb while thee work
of curb building is going on. This
will be done for the purpose of run
ming wires underground for fire alarm,
police call, etc The commissioners
took the matter up and committee
was appointed to secure prices on a
cheap fibre piping for that purpose
The piping is very cheap and will
cost only about two cents per foot
installed, if done when the cement
work is being executed.
Lead Pipe Connections.
Col. Lee Stoyer was present repre-.
senting the water company and stated
that there were number of owners
of property in the proposed paving
district who had not complied with
the ordinance requiring, lead pipe con
nections for the city water from the
street to the property line He said
this must be done before the paving
Of the street or it would never be
done and that his. company would alb
solutely refuse to supply water to any
consumer who had not compiled with
the order of the city commissioners
The commissioners passed resolu
ton extending the time to complete
this work to May Is and if the same
is not done by that time by the own
ers Of the property the city will have
the work done and the cost will be
assessed up to the property SO affect
ed.
New Circus License.
Ordinance ABS regulating circus
licenses and Ordinance A39 regulating
peanut and popcorn wagons and fix
ing the amount Of the license to be
paid we're introduced by Commission
ar Snyder and passed their first read
ing.
s$ a withdrawal petition was presented
to the board by certain property own
ers on south Oak street, asking thai
their names be stricken from peti
tion that had last fall asains
for a water main on that street. The
new petition was accepted and filed
which had the effect Of killing the
former one that had been fled.
Telephone Matters.
Local Manager ]. Q. Johnson, 81
The Dakota Central Telephone com
pany appeared before the city com
I missioners and stated that his CON
entinuei from rage j. Il
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