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CITY IXHJk.*.TD Committee ©• Internal Improvements reported the griding. curbing. gutt ,nog, and McAdamixing of WnnhingUm street from Mam to Boundary let. The bids for tb** grading, curbing, guttering, aid MeAdftuiixing jfi of Main street. from Valley to Spruce, were |f opened and referred to C ommittee on Internal Improvements, with instructions to reportthe lowlt;*et bidder to the Citv Council. The lt;o*bids were by Hughs, Ryan, and Cavan “ Bannrn. Mr. *Spelmaij reported a plan to ,'' th* Citv Council for the location of lanr»p!.•r 1,i posts aud showing the position of the pipes, it The plan was adopted by the Council ami M , i Committee instructed to make the contractj ‘t *«( for the lamps, gas, c. The plan places j f J about 46 posts on the most needed part of i . | the city streets. Mr. Spelman informed us P f j in private that each post with its outfit would * r * cost about forty or forty-five dollars; that each light in such lamp would burn six hours J for 12 1-2 cents: that gas could be furnished (I ^, for about $4. per thousand feet; that the j s] fixtures and pipes connecting the burner in rbuildings and the leading pipes were put up t for from $15. to $30., depending on the ele- jlt; gance of finish required. The City Recorder j} reported the city property assessed at $2,- j ( 147,405; last year it was $ 1 ,9O0,0U0 and it t was ordered that the same be taxed at one Icent on the dollar. It will bo observed that (I • • ' lt;a more solid and needful improvements are ■h now going on under the auspices of tho city \Council than have been before done in the ihistory of the city; improvements calculatedto give Burlington her right position among jthe cities of the Upper Mississippi. The im- j |provements on Main and Washington streets 1will give employment to a large number of i1L hands during the coming winter. Aud whato a splendid street Washington will make whenj the old market house is removed and it gradedthrough to the west, offering a much neededI channel of ingress and egress. The city will j; he gas lit on or before the middle of Decern-, her. Now we need to have an amendment to I 11the city charter, enabling any block desiring |t! to be lit with gas, on proper petitition to the (j city Council, to get it done at their own ex-! pense just as street improvements arc now-made.
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Burlington Daily Iowa State Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Tue, Sep 11, 1855
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