Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-03
Advertisement For Bids For construe.
ton Of Street Improvement.

q. m. on the 18th day OF June A. d.
1918, for the furnishing Of labor and
material for the grading, ourbing ana
paving Of the following streets and
parts Of streets, to-wit:
West Linn street from the west line
Of Second street to the east line OF
Ninth street.
South Ninth street from the north
line Of Boone street to the north rail-
OF the main line of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis Railway Company's track
South Twelfth stree, from the south
line OF Main street to the north line
Of Boone street
East Main street from the end OF
present pavement between Eighth and
Ninth avenue to the west line Of Linn
creek bridge.
North Tenth street from the north
line Of Main street to the south line
Of State street.
East State street from the east line
Of Fifth avenue to the west line OF
Eighth avenue.
West State street from the east line
of Twelfth street to the east line OF
Thirteenth street.
West Church street from the west
line Of Ninth street to the east line OF
Twelfth street.
West Boone street from the west line
Of Ninth street to the west line OF
Twelfth street, projecting south from
Main street.
Together with all intersections OF
streets and alleys included therein, all
In Marsha ltown, Iowa, curbing to be
constructed only where no sufficient
and adequate curbing now exists, and
All of said paving to De twenty-tour
feet in width except,
South Ninth street from the south
line of Boone street to the north ran
of the main line of the Minneapolis
St Louis Railway Company's track,
and
East Main street from the end OF
the present pavement between Eighth
and Ninth avenues to the west line OF
Linn creek bridge. which shall be OF
the width of thirty feet.
Said paving shall be constructed OF
concrete composed of a base five inches
in thickness. constructed of one part
cement to two parts sand and tour
PARTS gravel, with a wearing surface
thereon two inches in thickness COM
posed of two parts cement, one part
sand and two parts granite quartzlte
or trap-rock, from dimensions OF
three fourths Of one inch down with
all dust screened out, and said curblns
shall be of dimensions six inches IN
width and eighteen inches in depth,
and be constructed of one part cement
and three parts gravel pumped from
river, all as particularly provided by
the specifications now on file in the OF
fee of the city clerk of said city.
All grading curling and paving shall
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and specifications therefor as prepared
the city council, which are now on file
with the city clerk, and said plans and
specifications are by reference made
part Of this advertisement.
The following is an approximate esti-
mate Of the construction work to be
done: 5000 linear feet Of curbing and
$4,000 square yards Of paving. Said
work shall be commenced on or before
the 25th day Of June, 1915. and shall
be fully completed on or before the
18th day of October. 1915.
The cost and expense Of grading
upon the completion of said improve
ment to be paid by warrants drawn on
the grading fund.
Notice is further given that payment
for the construction of such cement
curbing. grading and paving, including
labor and material and incidental costs
and expenses shall be made by special
assessments certificates drawing inter-
est at the rate of per cent per an
mum issued in accordance with the
provisions of the Code of Iowa, to the
extent that the cost of the same is
assessable by law against the real
properties abutting on said improve
ments, and such other property &C
cording to area so as to include one
half of the privately owned property
between the streets so TO be improved
and the next street whether such prop
erty privately owned ADULTS upon SAID
street improvement or not, but in no
case shall privately owned property
situated more than 800 feet from the
streets to be SO improved be assessed
for any part of the cost thereof; said
assessments to be in proportion TO the
special benefits conferred upon salc
property by reason Of said improve
rnent and in accordance with the Law
governing the same. but not exceeding
% per cent Of the actual value Of any
lot or parcel of ground at the time OF
the levy, and the last previous assess
Inent roll shall be taken as prima facie
ficates to be issued and delivered to the
contractor after the work is completed
and fully accepted by the mayor anc
city council; any deficiency between
the amount of the contract price ano
the amount Of said certificates anc
also the cost of intersections where the
same are not assessable agains
abutting or adjacent property within
300 feet of said improvement, to be
paid in warrants drawn on the i'm
provement fund Of said city available
for the fiscal year beginning April l
1915, and any additional deficiency t.
be paid from the proceeds Of specia
tax levied under the provisions Of Sec
ton $50 of the Code of Iowa and act:
amendatory thereto in anticipation O
which revenue bonds will be ISSUED
under the provisions of Section 912 o
the Code of Iowa and acts anendator1
thereto. The contractor shall look ex
clusively to the funds stated in tn
contract for the payment for said i'm
provement and the city Of Marshall
town will not render itself pecuniaril.
liable for the payment Of the cost o.
any part OF the same, and will not in
cur any indebtedness therefor, and j:
the event that any such cost or ex
pense shall be required to be paid from
the said Improvement fund to be raiset
by means Of the special levy on prop
erty within the city Of Marshalltowr
Iowa, said levy may be made to exten,
over period Of ten years, as provide
by law.