Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-31
STATE TO Spend
$15.000,000 ON
IMPROVEMENTS
8oomln Public Building Now
Under Way in Nebraska;
Schools Biggest :
Item.

The greatest boom in public i'm.
provements the west, has ever ex.
perienced is underway in Nebraska
right now. The cities and towns oil
the state are spending about $l5,-
c0G,Go0 for public improvements
They are building school houses
munipical water plants, good roads
court houses, public electric light
systems, sewerage systems and max
ing various other improvements
Z which is to put Nebraska up In the
very front of all the states of the
union. This $l5,000,000 which the
different municipalities are spend
ing IS entirely above and in addition
to the many millions (which private
capital is spending for residences,
apartment houses, sky scrapers,
business blocks, factories, etc.
Is for Civic Good. ~
The $l5,0OO,OO0 is being spent for
the civic good and as a matter Of
public pride. 1t is not confined to
any one section. Scottsbluff, in the
extreme western part of the state,
is spending nearly 100000; Anoka,
in Boyd county, in the far northern
section, is building a new municipal
water system; Beatrice, in the
southern portion of the state, is do
ing $4,000 worth of paving; Fender,
in northeastern Nebraska, has a
drainage project for which it is
paying $4,000; Grand Island is
spending about 100000 on schools.
From end to~end of the state, and
at all points between, public i'm
provements are underway.
Omaha and Douglas county, of
course, led the way. Lincoln and
Lancaster are not far behind.
100000 Paving.
The biggest single item of public
improvement now underway in the
state is the 100000 worth of paw
ing for Douglas county. The second
largest item is the 100000 which
Lincoln is spending on. schools.
Then Omaha comes in third with a
/. $l,0O0,0OO High School of Com
merce building, which may be in
| creased to a cost of $l,750,0O0 before
the school is ready for occupancy.
School building is the largest
single item of cost in the $15,000,000
which public improvements are
costing this year. The cost of the
public school buildings now either
under construction, or for which
the money has already been pro-
vided and for which actual building
plans are underway, will aggregate.
nearly $5,000,000, exclusive of the
building program of the University
of Nebraska.
OF this big item of $5,000,000 for
schools, Lincoln is to pay out 40
per cent, or $2,000,000. Omaha will
pay out 20 per cent of 81, 100000 for
its Commercial High building.
Grand Island is spending $298,0O0
for new school buildings and Hall
county, of which Grand Island is
the county seat, is spending $1,000
additional.
Country Schools.
The city of Columbus, in Platte
county, is putting up $4,000 worth
of school buildings this year, while
Greeley is getting consolidated
school building for which it is pay
ing 100000. Thurston is paying out
just AN even 100000 for school
buildings, Hamilton county is pay
ing $4,000, Bayard, in Morrill,
county, is to pay $4,000; Gage coun-
ty will pay $4,000, including SAL
600 by the town of Blue Springs;
Scottsbluff will build a new school
for $55000 and the county OF Madi-
son will pay $4,000 for its new
school buildings.
Among other schools which are
being built this year are Blaine
county, district 9, $4,000; Box
Butte. district T. $500; Cedar county,
district &c, $1,000; Clay, district Is,
$4,000; Dawes, district IS, $l,40O;
Douglas, district 4, $4,000; Frontier
district 40. $4,000; Harland, district
II, $4,000; Keith, district s, $4,000;
Knox county, district q, $l,50O;
Lancaster, Hickman, $4,000; Mer-
rick, district 3, $1,000; Otoe. dis
trict l0l, $4,000; Pawnee, district
/, 50, $500; Monroe, Platte county,
| sci 900; Sheridan, district &c, $25,-
600; Wheeler, district 70, $1,000.
Lancaster County Paving.
Lancaster is spending $l75.O0o ad-
ditional for paving, and hundreds OF
individual farmers and property
owners in that county have agreed
J to tax themselves and their farms
i for the building of paved roads, in
addition to the sums the county
! will spend.
Douglas county is preparing to
pave 100 miles of its county roads
At an expense of 100000 to the
county and another $l,s00,0W hom
the state and federal road funds.
Scottsbluff county is spending $780,
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