Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-09
City Engineer Aliens Re
port Shows Also Numer-
GUS Municipal Improve
Inents in the Year.

City Engineer Frank r. Allen has
fled with the city clerk the follow
ing report, which is self-explanatory:
Following is a summary of the
work and activities of the engineering
and street departments for the year
enuing December 81, 1916:
"Ninety-five building permits were
issued, as follows:
One church, costing $4,000; one
bank building, costing $1,000 nine
dwellings, ranging in cost from $4,000
to So 600, total, $4,000: 16 dwellings
ranging in cost from $1,5t0 to $4,000,
total $2S,4O0 six dwellings ranging
in cost from $1,000 to $500, total
5000; four dwellings, ranging in
cost from $500 to $1,000, total $3,0S7;
ten dwellings costing less than $500
each, total $4,000; ten store buildings,
$2S,26O: nine garages, $4,460; four
barns, $1750; four sheds, $225; eight
electric signs, $1,7s5; five gasoline
stations, 1895; six repairs to build
ings, 1890; three permits for house
moving; three permits not approved;
one warehouse $1,000; one factory,
$3.50; total 101 items, valued at 1884,
S02.
Much Sidewalk Work.
"Eighty-fve permits for sidewalk
construction were issued. to cover the
construction of 1877 linear feet of
concrete sidewalks; Sidewalk district
No. 10, consisting of $3.50 linear feet
also was constructed this year, maxi
ing d total of 1851 linear feet, or
296 miles. representing construc-
ton cost of approximately $4,000.
give thousand, nine hundred and
seventy-eight feet of concrete curb
and cutters have been constructed,
including that in Paving district No.
SO, representing a cost of approx
mately $4,000.
"SiXty-four permits for the erection
of 156 poles, and Twenty-Five permits
for the removal of 80 poles, were is
sued
| Forty permits were issued for
sewer excavations; and PSI permits
were issued for excavations in streets
and alleys The street department.
assisted by some Of the county
/ teams, constructed three-quarters OF
mile of gravel road On West Sixth
avenue, and assisted the county in the
the Pine Bluff compress.
Extend Flood Relief.
During the flood of January-Feb-
ruary. the street department moved
I between 125 and $50 families, by
means of boats and wagons, and
worked for several days in a success
full endcavor to hold the point of the
river bank at the Standard Oil COM
pany property. and save further DAM
age to the Cotton Belt shops and in
tervening property.
! Sanitary sewer No. / was extend
cd on pontoons across the sandbal
which, cut it off from the river chan
mel
"The water system of Bellwood
cemetery, the Bellwood cemetery an
mex and the Jewish cemetery Was re-
constructed and connected with the
city mains, and the old pump anc
water tower removed.
Heavy Work on Streets.
"The city teams machine graded
approximately q miles of dirt streets
made approximately 10000 cubic
yards of excavations and fills ir
streets and alleys; cleaned approXi-
.
and removed and disposed OF approx
mately 1880 cubic yards of refuse
One hundred and eleven sanitary
sewer estoppals were cared for anu
repairs made.
"Of approximately $3.50 warnings
issued for street work. only As re-
sponded by working on the streets
The entire year was marked by g
| lack of labor and money in the stree
department, and the excessively higt
cost of all the ordinary construction
materials used by the city made any
attempts at the ordinary permanent
construction works impossible for the
same reason.
approximately one-half mile OF
streets has been surfaced with Gin
ders by the street department; and
nine bridges have been repaired. Sew
eral bridges have been kept open but
are in need of reconstruction, and