Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-29
Annual Report of
The City Engineer

The annual report of City Engineer
Henry f.. Hill for the year 1913, which
has been submitted to the city coun-
Gil, contains the following interesting
statistics relating to highway work;
The work done in the way of sewers
included the Lincoln street sewer from
Bedford street to Pike street, the total
cost of which was $134676, and the
Grand street sewer from State street
200 feet easterly, the total cost of
which was $174.33.
The cost of the work done on lower
Water street and Rines hill was
$S97330, divided as follows: City of
Augusta, $51S0.89; l.. A. & w. st. Ry.
Co, $1523.9S NJ. C. R. R., s226S.43.
During the year 354 yards of grano-
lithic walk and 27S lineal feet of stone
curbing were laid on Water street at
a cost of $600.50, of which the abut-
ting owners paid $26550
Court street between Water street
and the Maine Central platform, 493
square yards, was paved with concrete
at a cost of $S13.45.
The work of regarding and resur-
facing Western avenue from w. IL.
Gannetts residence to Sewall street
and the other work incidental thereto,
was completed at total cost of
S4,922.84, divided as follows: City of
Augusta, $2S33.09; L. A. & w. st. Ry.
Co, $10S975; State of Maine, $1,000.
On Mt. Vernon avenue between the
bridge over Bond brook and the ice
house on the west, distance of $50
feet, the road was resurfaced with
gravel at cost of s779, of which the
State paid $500.
Cony and Bangor streets from the
Kennebec bridge to Murray street
were resurfaced with macadam at a
cost of s2705.75. Of which the L. A. &
w. ST. Ay. paid s165.
The State road work done during
the year consisted of improving one
half mile of the Bog road, from the
cemetery just north of Coombs mills
northerly. Culverts were rebuilt, and
the road graded and resurfaced with
gravel, at a cost of $26S147. of which
the State paid SIPS.
AS the result of a hearing before the
railroad commission on May 9, the
M.fne Central Railroad Co. agreed to
raise its bridge over the north end of
Water street, so as to give a clear
passage of 13 feet inches, which will
allow the passage underneath of any
car of the L. A. & w. st. Ry.
New streets were laid out and
marked as follows: Gilman street.
from South Belfast avenue easterly
1S5 feet; Higgins street, from Grove
street to Hichborn street; Lincoln
street, from Cushman street to Pike
street; Morse street, from Cony street
northerly 175 feet; Valley street, from
Child street to PoWhattan street;
Washington street, from Munroe
street northerly 900 feet; Water street
(widening), from Purinton block to
Gage street.
The following street lines were
given: East line of Northern avenue
from Water street to Munroe street:
west line of Pearl street from Patter-
son street to Murray street; east line
of Mt. Vernon avenue from Bond
street to the icehouse; north line of
Franklin street from Northern avenue
to Oxford street; north line of Jeffer-
son street from Northern avenue to
Oxford street. gfte
nc ShSiIle mousse lot on Bridge
street was surveyed and the corners
marked by stone posts. The lines be-
tween the City farm and the reservoir
lot of the Augusta Water District were
run and the corners marked by iron
pipe.
Numbers were given to the build
lngs on Grand, Columbia and Cough
lin streets and the south part of State
street, and quite an amount of work
was done in the way of making plans,
proHles and estimates.
The report states that the total cost
of the department for the year was
s441.S0, including everything-th pay
of the engineer and his assistants.
drawing material, blue-prints. cab
hire, stakes, etc
In closing the report the engineer
RECOMMENDS that sewers be built in
the vicinity of Pettengill's Corner;
that the kennebec bridge be paved
with wood blocks: that street corners
be marked throughout the city: that
an ordinance be passed that the origi-
nails of all maps, plans and profiles
and the original field notes hereafter
made or taken by the city engineer for
the city shall be the property of the
city of Augusta.