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HE DOESN’T 'WANT HUGHED. A. FENGLER DESIRES ONLY $18,000.00 FOR A STRIP OFB1TJFF.HIGH BRIDGE APPROACH COSTLYMr. Tcngler Says His Business Will Be. Damaged by tlie New Roadway.^• Ed, A.’ Fengler yesterday submitted a statement to Alderman Kintzlnger, eliairman of the Eagle Point nigh bridge approach committee, setting forth the amount of damages he will demand before he will consent to the city’s building the approach through his property. He asks only $18,000 for the butt of a bluff, the whole of which, says an alderman, Isn’t worth half the amount demanded.The members of the committee declare that the amount asked for is outrageous. _ The course' of the proposed approach runs four or live hundred feet along the brow of Fengler’3 bluff and in the rear of Ills kiln. In order to make it passable the council will have to blast nearly half the hill away and then it will be constrained' to build retaining walls and make other extended and costly improvements. At the lowest possible figure the entire amount of the appropriation, $.5,000, will be expended in getting the hill side Into shape.J.n Ids statement to the .committee Mr. Fengler sets forth, at length, the reasons why .lie demands $18,000. The gist of them is that he wilt be handicapped. in his business. As the hill now. stands steam drills are used to bore holes, preparatory to the work of blasting. Were the approach eon structed through his property these steam drills would have to be abandoned and hand drills substituted. This would necessarily require the addition of a larger force of men, which would increase operating expenses materially. ;Members of the.cpn^nittee aver that Mr. Fengler is .making a mistake in demanding so large an amount. If the council desires, it can prevent Mr, Fengler operating a lime kiln within the city limits, or, more properly speaking prevent his blasting within the confines of the municipality. There is an ordinance providing tliat no person shall blast rock within the city limits without first securing the permission of the city council. Further, the ordinance provided that the council has the right to regulate such blasting. It is readily seen, then, that Mr, Fengler is up a tree.Aid. Hon- in speaking of the matter, today, said that Mr. Fengler could not sell his kiln and all his contiguous property for $1S,000. Tlie property, as everybody knows, is hilly and precipitous.Aid. Kintzinger has called a meeting of the approach committee for tonight and Fengler’s' proposal will be considered. It will* of course be rejected as the council .will not stand for hold ups.” Tlie outcome of the meeting will undoubtedly be the issuance of orders to Marshall Morgan to appoint a jury to niuke an equitable award of damages., A number of aldermen think that $500 would be about right.
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Dubuque Daily Telegraph
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 05, 1901
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