The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-11
League of Municipalities Gets
Huge List of Improvements.
LABOR At so CENTS AN HOUR
Pittsburg Won't Accept Con-
tracts Which Specify Less.
Abilene Has Queer Taxation
Problem PuzzIing Her, Too.

Russell is out west in what Is known
in the Kansas language as the short
| grass country. The monthly list of
paving improvements under way or
contemplated in Kansas. issued by
Secretary John C. STUFF Sf the League
of Kansas municipalities, goes City
Clerk Morphy one better 1t indicates
! that the paving fever" is quite cpl
demic in nearly all Kansas this sum-
| mer. The list is the longest yet is
sued, according to Secretary Stutz, |
and bears out an earlier statement
/ that cities of Kansas are doing more |
street improving this year than ever
At Abilene the issue has been
raised whether the frontage property |
/ of the entire city should pay for resur- |
| facing paved streets. On protest by |
property owners, the city commission |
| has agreed to wait to have the 1923 |
/ legislature pass a law permitting this |
! expense to be paid by all the tax pay |
I ers, rather than the owners of prop |
erty adjacent to the streets who paid |
/ for the original paving.
The city of Pittsburg has set a new
/ precedent in municipal contracting, il, |
| rejecting bids of contractors on paw
ing job whe pay less than so cents an
hour for labor.
! Secretary Stutz's list follows:
Arkansas City-The contract for |
| Birch avenue to Washington was let |
at s1.S5. There is 17,7oO square yards |
| OF asphalt (sheet) to be laid.
| Burr Oak-After a brief siege of |
paving several residents signed paving |
petitions but have backed out Tho |
paving proposition is now dead for an
| other year.
| It's Pave-Pave-PaVe.
Chapman-A resolution was passed |
calling for the paving of Colfas street |
| from Marshall to Broadway and from |
Broadway to Logan.
Cimarron-A sidewalk across the |
1 Il -sr-I,%
thorized by the city council.
Council Grove-The commission ap-
proved petitions to pave Adams from |
Main to Conn and Columbia from |
Washington to Adams.
: Coffeyville-Thec city commissioners |
passed an ordinance for the paving OF |
portions of Is streets. The provision |
was made for many sidewalks in the |
First, Second and Fourth wards. Con- |
| tract for paving was at $3.50, 900.
Downs-A resolution was passed by |
the council for the paving of a dozen j
blocks here.
Eldorado-An ordinance providing |
for the construction of a number of
sidewalks was passed by the commits
sioners.
Emporia - The commissioners de-
clared it necessary to resurface Me-
chanic street from Sixth avenue to
Twelfth avenue.
Observation-Disclosures has been let |
for 27,1671 square yards of paving
at SS1, Ar.
Ellinwood - Petitions have been
filed for four blocks of paving on Bis
mark street commencing at the Santa
Fe depot Another petition calls for
four blocks on Ellinwood east Of
Washington.
Fort Scotia remonstrance. re-
ceived by the commissioners against
paving Lowman street, was insuffi-
cient to kill the project. Four other
jobs are under way.
Garden City-The last 16-foot slab
navPd highway
across Finney county was laid on June
%. This gives Finney county the dis
tinction of having the longest stretch
of paved road in Kansas.
Great Bend-An ordinance author
lied the construction of several blocks
of cement sidewalks.
Halstead-3s5 square yards of paw
ing are being bid on.
Hays-An ordinance passed for the
paving of East Juanita street, East
Normal street, Elm street and Fifth
street.
Characterization were made
for the Improvement of Second street
and Fourth street.
Hutchinson Has Real Program.
Hutchinson-A resolution calling
for the repaving of Sherman street
was passed. Plans for paving eight
blocks of four-foot, ten blocks of five
foot and two blocks of six-foot side
walks, five blocks of curbing and gut
tiers and one block of eighteen-foot
for sidewalks on Fifteenth from Ma
pie to Elm has been filed. A petition
was accepted by the commission for
curbing and guttering North Madison
from Tenth to Eleventh. Petition for
sheet asphalt on Sherman from Pop
lar to Reormatory has been present.
ed specifically stating the paving
shall not cost more than $2;45
square yard. The pavement will be
thirty-two feet wide.
Hillsboro-BidS have been called
for on 7,740 square yards of vitrified
brick pavement, 5000 cubic yards of
earth excavation. 1898 linear feet of
six-inch curbs and cutters, 7,740
square yards fine grading. 40 cubic
yards rock excavation. 392 linear feet
of concrete headers.
been passed by the commission and
bids called for on 7.156 square yards
brick pavement, 4,474 linear feet
curbs and cutters and 800 linear feet
sins.
Larned-Paving nine blocks of
Larned streets costing $4,000 is I'M
der way.
Lawrence-The six blocks of paw
ing on New Hampshire between Sew
enteenth and TwentyThird will be
thirty feet wide An ordinance has
been passed calling for paving of
Barker. two blocks
Leavenworth-Ordina for paw
ing Third from Elm to Linn and Linn
from Second to Fourth have been
will be of seven-inch reinforced con-
crete
Manhattan to Pave Laramie.
Marion-Eight blocks of paving
of WEIGH has been authorized by the :
commission.
Manhattan-New paving on West :
Laramie will be twenty-seven feet
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