The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-07-24
PAVING BIDS WILL BE
OPENED ON TUESDAY
BIDS HAVE BEEN ASKED ON
FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
HARD SURFACING
COMPLETED THIS FALL
PAVING OF STRIP SOUTHEAST
OF CITY LIMITS DEFERRED
UNTIL SPRING

lucSudy lloTHlHS, July 20, al
1000 o'clock the Sank Centre City
Council will receive bids for the con-
struction of paving contemplated in
Sank Centre this year.
Under direction of the council City
Engineer j. E. Bonner prepared
plans and specifications for five diff
ferent types of paving. The paving
will start at the corner of Third and
Oak street, thence east to Main and
south on Main to the underground
Great Northern crossing and thence
on south to the city limits and east
for about three miles, or to where
the construction of the new Highway
No. 3, corner of the Walker and Gil
son farms on the Melrose road.
The work will be done in conjunc-
ton with the State Highway De-
partment and the state will pay for
an 18-foot strip of paving in the
center of the streets. The balance on
either side of the streets to be paved
will be charged against the abutting
property save and except the street
intersections which will be paid for
by the city. Anticipating this inn
provement the city council in the
1924 tax budget set aside sum to
handle this expense.
Beginning at the corner of Fifth
and Main streets there will be IL
foot boulevard in the center of the
street south to the Great Northern
overhead crossing. This leaves strip
18 feet wide on each side of the
boulevard and should make Main a
beautiful residential street.
During the past week representa-
tives of several different types of
paving have been in the city endeav-
oring to "sell" the property owners
on their particular type of paving
The average citizen knows but little
about paving and the general con-
census of opinion appears to be IL
the City Council will, after hearing
all the facts in the case and the
prices asked, keep the best interests
of the city and taxpayers in mind
when they award the contracts.
The plan at the present time is
to open the bids Tuesday and spend
Wednesday confering with property
owners and on Thursday morning
meet with the Highway Department
at St. Paul who will have opened bids
for the letting of contracts for the
construction of three miles of paving
leading out of the city of Melrose in
a southeasterly direction.
In this connection it will be of in
terest to Herald readers to learn that
at the letting July 20 the Highway
Department will also receive bids for
the grading of Highway No. from
st. Joseph to Sank Centre. Private
land necessary to straighten out the
highway and other Improvements has
been condemned the Herald under
stands. A new bridge across Sank
river east of Melrose is being built
and the work of changing the loca-
ton of the bridge across Sank river
one mile east of Sank Centre is now
going on. This bridge will be located
south of the present location and the
nasty curve at the bottom of the hill
near the old Doolittle farm will be
avoided.
The Herald understands that it is
the plan of Highway Commissioner
Babcock to pave only in the city
limits of Sank Centre this fall, but
that the contract for paving the three
mile strip to the southeast will be
let in the early spring of 1925. The
contract for the three mile strip of
paving southeast of Melrose will be
awarded at the July goth letting and
will be completed this fall. This is the
poorest piece of highway between
Sank Centre and Minneapolis and
should be improved first if only a
portion of the work can be done this
year.
Sank Centres program this year
contemplates 1857 square yards of
paving, 1851 feet of 6-inch curb and
24-inch gutter; 1856 feet of 4-inch
curb and 1880 cubic yards of exca-