Show MAKE MIKE PROGRESS mm ON CITY WORK Years Improvements Planned by City Engineer Near Nearing Nearing Nearing ing Completion SEWER PROBLEM SOLVED BELIEVED BELI VE D INTERCEPTING SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM TEM WILL SOON BE FINISHED Rapid progress has been made during the past two weeks toward the comple completion completion completion tion of ot the public improvements now under way and indications are that be before before fore tore snow falls little will Avill remain un undone undone undone done doneL L city engineer has dur ing the past week made a careful sur survey survey survey vey of the situation and he is much gratified at the progress which Is be ing made The matter of chief concern now is the completion of ot the wooden stave out let pipe for or the intercepting sewer ewer arid and the installing of or the pumping station The rho Campbell Building company has ha the tho contract for laying the pipe and has been greatly delayed by the wet ground in which it is necessary to work The engineer believes that in a months time tinie the pipe will all be down and that Fairbanks Morse Co can then th n be begin begin begin gin putting in the pumps By Nov No 1 at the latest the intercepting sewer should be ready read for use after a years year idleness occasioned by the failure of oC the board of works to provide for tor an outlet before the sewer system was fin finished finished finished As soon as the sewer is in working order James Tames Kennedy will begin build buildIng building Ing the sewer extension in the southwestern portion of ot the city which will empty empt into the intercepting sewer This section has been In need of or o drain drainage drainage drainage age for tor a long period but nothing could be done until the completion of ot the intercepting sewer The contract for forthe forthe forthe the was let in 1906 but work on it has been impossible Progress In Paving P J T Moran is progressing rapidly rapid with the pavement on First South street and has one side of oC the street paved from Second to Seventh East Much lluch of the concrete base is In and if all the property owners consent to the use of California asphalt the work will willbe willbe willbe be completed by b Dec 1 Davis Heuser are rapidly nearing the end of ot their sewer work on the north bench The extension Is known as No and lies between Third and Sixth avenues and from A street to the military reservation A total to 11 of or blocks is i involved and the contract calls for Its completion by Dec 31 To date approximately sixty four tour blocks have been laid and arid the firm contemplates finishing the remainder by b Oct 1 An average of twelve blocks Nocks a 3 week is being laid According to the engineer the early completion of this work will be to the advantage of ot the property owners as it will permit theta them to make connections before beCore the ground freezes The district has never had sewer facilities and because of its rap I I id growth drainage is badlY needed Already a large number of permits to connect with the sewer have been granted by the engineer and more ap applications applications are coming in every day Sidewalks for Next Year No sidewalks are re being laid at pres present present present ent although several extensions for next year ear are planned The engineer is completing his plans for the North Temple street aqueduct which is to be built with funds received from Crom the bond Issue and bids forthe work worl will be advertised for soon The Th C estimated cost Is and an it is be believed believed that the aqueduct can be fin finished finIshed finished by March farch arch 1 in order to ward ore off orean ff any an danger danser from spring freshets which usually devastate tate the district through which City creek runs between Fifth Firth and Eighth Vest West on North Temple |