The Idaho Republican., 1919-05-27
Blackfoot To Be
Completely Paved
City Council Accepts the Offer oi
Bond House for Street
Paving Bonds
WILL BUY TRUCK SPRINKLER

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decided upon and ordered an auto
matte truck ffusher and sprinkler,
which will draw water from the ir-
rigation bitches and take care Of the
entire town area In the space Of two
eight-hour shifts.
The truck ordered Is three and q
half ton Republic automatic fusher
and sprinkler, handled by the yell
lOwstOne garage, and will be de-
livered in about four weeks from
date of the order. It is to cost $6624
and first payment made January
l, 1920. According to report Of
the city clerk, L. j. Chapman, the
present rate of revenue from the
sprinkling district will soon pay for
the new machine. In January Of this
year something more than $1,000 was
turned over to the city treasurer to
credit of the sprinkling district.
To Pave the City
Considering a completion at one
stroke Of all city pavement, includ-
ing residence areas on the east and
west sides, the council received a
representative Of the John e. Price
company, of Seattle, Wash, and
adopted his offer that this company,
which already has handled Blackfoot
city and Bingham county bonds,
should take over bonds to cover
special paving of streets, and per-
form the preliminary legal procedure
for putting bonds on sale covering in
tersections.
OF the two elements of the new
Improvement district, special bonds
will be sold and assessed against
property abutting the pavement. For
these it is not legally necessary to
open public bids. The ohm E.
Price company, thru its representa-
tive, offered to take these bonds at
par value Internationally at 6 per
cent, payable in one to ten years, and
this offer was accepted.
Further, the John e. Price COM
pany included in it's offer the drawing
up of preliminary procedure for gen.
'eral bonds to cover intersections and
be assessed against the city tax
payers. These bonds will be the sub
ject of competitive bids as soon as
specifications are completed by the
company's lawyer.
The council took this method of
selling the special bonds to save
time, and the members were agreed
Thursday evening that they had re-
ceived bid in every way as accept
able as could be secured thru calling
for public bids.
A special bond election will be
called for the purpose of allowing
the city to decide on paving the in
and It is possible that by
fall combination of city and county
new roads will reach far into the
country west of Blackfoot to help
the farmers bring in their summer
crops.
Streets to be Paved
The following streets will be
paved under the new bond issue If
the general bond election carries:
Monroe street at North Shilling
south to Walker street.
East Main street from Alice south
to Court. ~
Court street from East Main to
Shilling.
East Judicial from railroad to
Shilling
East Bridge from railroad to
Shilling.
East Pacific from Main to Shilling.
East Idaho from Main to Shilling.
East Alice street from railroad to
city limits.
Curtis street east from Shilling to
University.
Sexton street from Broadway west
to city limits.
West Bridge street from pavement
on Oak street west to city limits.
West Main from Francis street
north to city limits.
South Broadway from Mackay
tracks south to city limits (providing
e. M. Kennedy property is annexed
to the city,
West Judicial from Ash street east
to Broadway.
Ash street from Sexton north to
Pacific.
West Pacific from Ash to present
pavement, at alley between Broad
way and Ash street.
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