The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-04-24
FIRST MOVE FOR
GREATER CITY
THE SLOGAN "A GREATER BROOK
!McS" WILL SOON MEAN
SOMETHING REAL
PAVED STREETS ARE An ASSURED FACT
Contracts Let Tuesday Evening For
Paved Streets And For A Great
White Way On Main Street

"n'te way On MAIN street
A real and important move was
made by Bookings on Tuesday even
ing. when the city council and prop
erty owners along Main and Eighth
streets let the contracts for the paw.
ing of these streets. While there has
been some little. criticism on the Sc
lection OF these streets for the first
paving. yet 1t seems a wise selection,
as thus a straight and prominent way
OF getting to State College along
paved highways Is provided. The
paving Of Main street from the mill
to Eighth street also gives the new
conner into the city a better impress
sion OF u progressiveness. Four
bidders the cal; os tbs city
for bids. c. II. Atkinson bidding on
blocks, bitulithic and REINFORCED con-
crete, and II. F. Schruth, Thos. f.
Woolsey and the Campbell Const. Co.
bidding on the asphaltic concrete and
the REINFORCED concrete. There
seemed to have been a careful cail-
'abp M ShU QuCGliOu ny luc DIOVeIly
owners and they were also entirely
unanimous for the kind that was fin
ally selected. After all the figures
had been given, tabulated and placed
on a blackboard before the meeting.
the property owners decided In favor
of bitulithic for Main street from Fol
som street to Sixth street and for re-
enforced concrete for Main street
from Sixth to Eighth streets and for
the paving on Eighth street. The bid
of c. H. Atkinson for this kind of paw
Ing was much the best and cheapest
and was accepted for all of the paving
contracted for on these two streets.
The paving on Main street from Fol-
som to Sixth streets will cost $3.41
per square yard and the paving OF
Main street north and on Eight
street will cost $2.57 per square yard.
In considering the paving Of Main
street, the probable cost per front foot
per lot was estimated for the different
kinds of paving. by the contractors
and the city engineer, as follows:
Creosote blocks $22. so, bitulithic SIS.
asphaltic concrete SIG rs, and re-en-
forced concrete $14.5O. While these
figures are not positive, yet they are
approximately correct, and give there
fore the cost to the owners of the
Main street property on the kind Of
pavement selected as $500 per front
foot. for the owners on each side of
that street. The paving for north
Main street and for Eighth street will
be the REINFORCED concrete with
crushed quartz foundation. In paving
north Main street a parkway twenty
feet wide is provided in the middle
of the street, giving a twenty foot
drive boulevard on each side to the
sidewalk.
The next step in progress made
Tuesday evening was the letting of
the contract for the lighting ON Main
street. There were only two bidders
for the complete job, the Kelly Const.
Co. at a revised bid Of $14, 900 and the
Electric Const. Co. at $16.88O There
were two bidders on the material and
one bidder, the Cornell Electric Co.
of Bookings. on construction. But as
the specifications did not call for sep
arate bids, but did call for complete
bids, the bid of the Kelly Company
was accepted, at the price named
above. The lighting plan calls for
eight lights of the single lamp unit to
the block between Third street and
Sixth street and four lights to the
block to be set in the parkway re-
tween Sixth street and Eighth street.
This plan provides for lamps on each
block. in between, for the three bust
ness blocks of Main street. When
Main street is paved the plan also
calls for the removal of all poles and
wires, except the posts for street
lighting, and all wire will be carried
to these posts through conduits laid
in the ground and the wires carried
on poles in the alleys. A conduit will
also carry all wires under the rail
way tracks and the unsightly wires
will not be in evidence to the visitor
when he arrives in the city. The first
step has been taken in making the
city a thing of beauty as well as util-
ity, and now that we have made the
start, nothing must stop us from car
rying the work on to completion.
-rHiNK IN MrEREsr-sAys-