Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-31

to Seventh avenue. IS
feet wide. brick ......... 5.421.41
Forty-third street. Railroad
10 Seventh avenue, "A
feet wide. brick ........ 27.6s4s4
Second avenue and Seventh
street. 40 feet wide. brick 1a.6s21C
Sixteenth street, First TO
/ Second avenue. resurface,
brick ........ Assoc
/ The independent Construction com.
pany laid:
l Ninth avenue. Twelfth TO
/ Twenty-first street. p
] feet wide. brick ..-.-.... 19,49s.6O
/ Ninth avenue. Twenty-first
to Twenty-fifth street So
/ feet wide. brick ...- 11,53S.O5
Eighth-and-a-half avenue.
Twenty-fifth to Thirtieth
street. "a feet wide. brick 14,792.54
Thirty-first street. Fifth to
Sixth avenue. p feet
wide. brick ........ s,OS3.5O
The Tri-City Railway company laid:
Right-of-way, Ninth avenue
Twenty-first to Twenty
fifth street. brick .. 10000
Total, (i.49 miles) ......S212,29S.s2
Many Waterrains Laid.
Rock Island kept its system of wat
ermains growing TO keep pace with
the improvements TO the pumping sta
ton during 1914, and opened many
new fields, by the laying mains in "a
distinct territories.
City Engineer Wallace Treichler
states that 5.36 miles of pipes were
. ut Of
O3733. The contractors received $751;
1853 Of this, the remainder of cost
being for commissioners fees, etc.
OF the total 1852 feet were of -
inch pipe. 4.1O6 feet OF 1O-inch, 21,175
feet Of 6-inch. and 4 feet of finch. Six
ty-nine new fire hydrants were attach
eI in the new Waterman districts
Following Is the list OF the projects:
Fortieth street. Eighth ave
enue, 6-inch. 4O7 feet, two
fire hydrants .-.-.---S $3.50
Thirty-fifth street. Four
teenth TO Fifteenth ayen-
ne. 6-inch. 45I feet .... 10000
Eighth avenue. McInnes
Bros. addition, 6-inch.
1859 feet, five fire hyd-
rants -..-.--....- 5000 3,2oO-oO
Dearborn street and Michi-
gan avenue. S-inch. 376
feet. and 6-inch. 2.1S9 feet.
six fire hydrants ... 4.5O6.95
Webb street. S-inch, AS
feet. and 6-inch, 1888. 3
fire hydrants .-... 2,9Ol.20 I
First street. Twelfth 10
Thirteenth avenue. G-inch
us feet. 3 fire .hydrants 1,2l5.S0 /
Tenth avenue. Ninth TO Ele-
venth street, 6-inch. $40
feet. two fire hydrants .. 1.2sOo5
and-a-half
street. Fifteenth 10 Six
teenth avenues. 5-inch.
712 feet, fire hydrants.. 1.O42.40
Twenty-first street, Ken
nedy's addition. 6-inch.
574 feet. one fire hydrant 7s31O
rwenty-seventh street.
Eighteenth TO Twentieth
avenues. 1Oinch. 675 feet.
6-inch. 1.4O3 feet. four fire
hydrants -. ........ s.s7s.7O
Twenty-eighth street, Eff
teenth 20 Sixteenth aven-
ne. 6inch. 623.5 feet, one
fire hydrant ........ 7.715.53
twenty fourth street.
Eighteenth. Nineteenth
and Twentieth avenues.
IO-inch. GS3 feet. and s.
inch. 1854 feet. two fire
hydrants ...... ..... 3.f21.6O :
Iixth avenue and Thirty
first street. 6-inch, 615
feet. fire hydrants ... 1.OO7.s5 :
'orty-first street. Eigh-
teenth 10 Nineteenth av-
enues. 5inch. 6S2 feet.
fire hydrant ... 93IIO Z
eyenth street. near
Twelfth avenue. 6-inch.
654 feet. three fire hyd-
rants. (rock excavation =
2.19O cubic feet ..... 1O.67S.5O| .
street. north
OF Fourteenth avenue. =
6-inch. 200 feet, one fire :
hydrant .... ........ 275.7O .
Orty-third street. railroad
10 Tenth avenue. 6-inch.
LIS. fire hydrants ... 1856 90 =
ecOnd avenue. in paving. =
6-luch. rs feet. 3 fire hyd-
rants. (and commission
erB fees) .......... 10000 4,