Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-30
GRAVEL FOR ENTRANCE STREETS
APPROVED AT COUNCIL MEETING
Will Place Permanent improvements on Thirteenth
Street South and Sixth Avenue Southwest If
Funds Available; South Side Lighting District
Created; Open Bids for Second Avenue Paving.

Construction of improvements that
would be more permanent than any Sc
cured on any previous year was advc-
Gated at the city council session Tues
day evening for streets serving as en-
frances to the city. Calvert, chairman Of
the ways and means committee, submit
ted the proposal to the council and in
stantly won from other aldermen and
from Mayor Louis Newman approval of
the plan. Thirteenth street from the
paved district to the south city limits
and all of Sixth avenue southwest as
Tar as the Sun river bridge were thor
oughfares for which improvements of
a permanent nature were proposed. If
the city's finances will permit, it is prob
able that construction will be put under
way with but little delay.
Wants Streets Gravelled.
Calvert advocated that Thirteenth
street and Sixth avenue southwest be
travelled, which is the only material,
with the exception of paving, that has
asted longer than a single season. Some
streets leading into the city have been
gravelled on former years and these
are now In excellent condition, Calvert
said. while other streets improved with
different material have been recon
structed every summer and are now ser
IOusfv III need of repair.
"'The city spends up to $4,000 every
year for street improvements other
than paving" Calvert asserted shut
ly used it has been necessary to repeat
the work every spring. This seems to
me like wasting money. Ii Thirteenth
street from the paved area TO the city
limits and Sixth avenue southwest out
to the Sun river bridge were to be gray
elled but little more work would be nee
essaFy for long time and | believe it
would be good business to consider the
possibility of undertaking the work this
year"
Trucks Lower Cost.
Cost of the work would be materially
lowered BY use of the trucks recently
purchased by the city from the govern
ment, Calvert explained. With these
machines in operation the city would nm
dertake the construction under its own
supervision. reducing the cost TO eX
penses connected with labor and opera
tion of the trucks.
Boyd said he waEted to approve Cal
vert's plan and Mayor Newman de-
clared that the suggestion was exactly
in line with his own ideas on the sub
ject. Mr.. Newman said that much will
depend on the condition of the treas
ury, and asked that the matter be turn
ed over to the public improvement com
mttee and the ways and means com
mittee for Investigation.
Il the public improvement committee
finds the plan practical and the ways
and means committee finds the money
said the mayor. there would be no de-
lay in beginning operations.
Bids We're opened for paving district
;sS3I which Embraces Second avenue
north between Nineteenth and Twenty
sixth streets, but owing to the extent
Of the figures the city engineer was
granted week in which to make a re-
the paving. installation of a drainage
system and the water service. Con
tract for constructing bOulevards in
district 3S4 was awarded to Nilscn d
Smith for S4S55.66 The bid Of Fag-
enstrom Brothers was for $J195.16, but
this firm was low on the construction
of paving in district $50. The work
went to them for S2331.52 The bid
Of Nilsson & Smith was $23a6.40.
Create Lighting District.
The resolution finally creating light
ing district 300 was adopted, Joyce and
Sieevy alone disappearing. Protests
representing 81 lots were filed, while
the district includes over 20 lots The
district lncluded FIrst avenue and First
alley south between Sixth and Thr-
teenth streets. Third alley south be
tween Sixth and Sixteenth streets.
Third alley south between Sixth street
and the Milwaukee tracks, the east side
Of Sixth, Seventh. Eighth. Ninth Tenth, |
Eleventh and Twelfth streets between
First and Second alleys and Thirteenth, |
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets be- |
tween Second and Third alleys One
third of the cost will be horne by the /
city and the remainder by abutting |
property. The specifications call for
2S 5-cluster lights, $50 single lights and !
Al alley lights.
Boulevard Permits.
T. V. Chichester was granted a per-