The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-11
street Grading and Sewer ccnstruc.
ton Work 70 be Started
BY tho City This
Week.
10 EMPLOY MANY MEN
ENORMOUS Amount Of street improve
ment Accomplished by the
New City Admin
istration.

Work to be started In the near Iu'
ture that will give employment to
MANY men, has been ordered by the
city council. Already since the new
administration took office surpr1s-
,nr amount Of street Improvement,
grading and sewer work has been
done that has given employment 70
many men In the city and has greatly
improved the value Of property here.
Much OF the work ordered started
will be commenced this week, some or
Il being started this morning. Other
work will be taken up and pushed
through to completion as soon as ar
rangements can be made and the con-
tracts let. There IL also quite large
amount OF work under way at the
present time.
This morning there was started the
construction Of 800 foot main sew
or in the Belknap addition. It will
run from Twenty-first street and Elk
change across to Bank, then up 70
connect with the new school house
sewer, then TO Clinton place across
Timea, then to Mckinley avenue anu
nm to Kilbourne place. The famous
Bloody Run sewer from Thirteenth
and Palean to Bloody Run has al
ready been contracted for and the
work will be started in q short time.
The big egg-shaped sewer. 2SO feet
long, between High and Morgan ana
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Will also
be started in the course Of week or
two.
Grading work Is now being done ON
South Fifth street. preliminary to
paving with brick, South Fifth and
Commercial alley. The grading OF
Seventeenth street from the south
side OF Grand avenue to the nrst
bridge Il nearly completed as Is the
grading work being done on Water
street from Blondeau past the water
works. Johnson streets from water
to Second has been completed and
the intersection Of First and Johnson
put in fne shape.
A $50 foot sewer between Twenty
first and Twenty-second: and Fimea
and Des Moines has bedn completed.
The .DiverCraig 500 foot, six
inch sanitary sewer between Second
and Third street on the huff has been
finished.
All the roads in Rand park have
been macadamized and rolled, max
ing them as good as any street IN the
city. Two new bridges have also
been built in the park. :, North Bion-
dean street, North Ninth, part OF
Tenth and some of Twelfth street
have been patched anda repaired so
that they are now In good condltlon
for the traffic this summer.
Grading work on Orleans avenue, on
the Middle road to the city limits. on
the Plank road to tie city limits, the
boulevard from Rand park to lstA
and Timea, Johnson street to the
city limits. Eighteenth from Main
south, Sixteenth down Crooks hin t.
the city limits, has all been compiet-
ed by the new administration.
The grading work on Fourteenth
street is now nearing completion. Be-
sides these improvements mentioned
there have been many other minor
improvements made that are too num-
erous to mention. The council has a
great amount Of work for the summer
under contemplation and contracts
for this will be let in the near future
and work started. Some grading
work will be done in West keokuk
this summer, but the contracts for
this have not yet been let.