January, i8t.
THE WEST SHORE.
7
Market, grading sidewnlks, cross
walks and box gutters, between Eighth
and Fifteenth streets-nlmost completed.
Clay, same as above.
Harrison, heavy grading between
Front and Water streets almost com
pleted. Third and North Third, grading,
sidewalks, crosswalks, bridge and Oak
land macadam, bet. Washington and
North Front streets work about two
thirds completed.
Third and South Third, grading,
sidewalks, crosswalks, box-gutters and
Oakland macadam, bet. Market and
Sheridan streets work about half com
pleted. N atreet, grading, sidewalks and
crosswalks, with bridge across Couch's
lake, between N. Front and N. Thir
teenth streets work begun.
Morrison street, replenishing mac
adam, between Front and First work
begun.
Morrison street, replenishing mac
adam, between Front and First work
begun.
WORK PROVIDED KOH.
Resides the improvements vvhich
have been noticed under the above
headings, the Common Council have
by ordinance, provided for improving
certain Btreetjt, as follows the esti
mates for the same not having as yet
been made: ,
Twelfth street, grading, sidewalks
and crosswalks, between Columbia and
Montgomery streets.
H street, grading, including heavy
fill, sidewalks and crosswalks between
North Eleventh and North Fifteenth
streets.
Front and North Front, macadam
and stone crosswalks, lctwccn Vine
and F streets estimate filed, but con
tract not let.
North Front strec heavy filling,
sidewalks, crosswalks and plank road,
between F and N streets.
North Seventh, grading, sidewalks,
crosswalks and macadam, let. I) and
II streets. ,
North Eighteenth, grading, side
walks and crosswalks, between II and
M streets.
North Sixteenth, grading, sidewalks
and crosswalks, between It and Q
streets.
F street, grading, sidewalks, and
crosswalks, ociwccn iorm i nincenm f.:r working nr,l. Tk.
and North Nineteenth streets. J by the city in 1880 aggregate a total
E street,' grading, sidewalks and
crosswalks, between North Four
tccnth street and city limits, and Hal!
street, grading, sidewalks and cross
walks, bet. Ninth and Thirteenth
streets.
HOX DRAINS,
have been laid under ground, with
catch-basins at street intersections, for
the purpose of carrying away the sur
face rain water from the district le
tween Clay and Lincoln streets. This
work has been done at about one-third
the cost of a more permanent improve
ment, but will not be generally useful,
nor should it ever be permitted to be
used for sewer purposes. As yet the
catch-basins are not completed and
the drains are not in full operation.
It is unfortunate that they were not en
tirely completed before the rainy sea
son began, though but very little re
mains to be done to make them com
plete. There is a drain in Montgome
ry street, from Tenth to Sixth; in Sixth
street, from Montgomery to Clay; and
in Clay, from Sixth street to the river;
and also a tributary drain in Eighth
street, from Short street to Montgome
ry; in Seventh street, from South
street to Jackson; thence down Tack-
son to Sixth; and thence down Sixth
to Montgomery; and In Third street
from College street to Clay. The
work now done on these drains amounts
to about $7,000, and it will require
about $2,000 more to complete them.
SKWRRS.
During the past year the city has
constructed more than four times as
great an amount of street sewers as
was laid in 1879, having constructed
terra cotta pipe sewers:
In Madison street, from Eighth street
to the Willamette. '
In Oak street, from Seventh street to
the river.
In Alder street, (continued) from
Fifth street to Ninth street.
In Morrison street, from Sixth to the
river.
In Main street, from Twelfth street
to the river.
In Taylor street, from Seventh street
to the Willamette river.
The sewers In Main and Tavlor
streets lack some finishing work, such
ar re-filling small portions of trench
and nuttintr finishim? tnurhn nn f-s
! catch-basines, etc., but are already in
'.f.l, an.!!.. IT. I
length of 15,396 lineal feet, against
3,810 feet in 1S79, and cost J5,6oo, or
M per foot for the seWcr complete,
including grading, man-holes, lamp
holes, catch-basins, etc., which is con
siderably less than the construction of
sewers cost a few years Ago. The city
has also connected the waste pipes, wa
ter closets, etc., of the police building
and No, a's engine house, with the Oak
street sewer, at a cost of about $300.
GKNKHAI. WORK!
During the past year 306 permits for
doing street work have Wen issued to
privato parties, against aoj in the year
1S79, and 170 in 1878. Under such
permits a large amount of street im
provements have been made during the
year, and a considerable amount has
been accomplished as repairs to the im -provemcnts
of former years, and tuk
ing together all the improvements made
as above set forth, the aggregate total
amount of work done upon the streets
of Portland during the year 1880, as
shown by the forthcoming annual re
port of the City Surveyor, will be found
to have cost about $140,000, or nearly
twice the amount of the year 1870,
which was one of unusual activity in
street work.
TIIR KKHUI.T.
In view of the fidelity of' the mem
bers of the Common Council in econ
omically conducting so much business
without compensation, a high appreci
ation of their labors is due, and partic
ularly to the Committee on Streets and
Public Property Messrs. J. S. Keller,
Henry Hewed and Donald Mackay,
the latter recently succeeded by Mr.
W. II. Andrus who have had direct
control of all street matters. The city
ofliccrs who diaw pay are entitled to
some consideration, but they probably
prefer their salaries to the glory of
spending their time and talents for the
city for empty honor of working for
nothing and receiving the blessings (?)
of every man who thinks he could have
done better.
The relative amounts of work done
during the past several years, may he
seen from the following table from the
City Surveyor's report of 1879, with the
amount for 1K80 added thereto:
COST OF STHKIT WORK MXCK 1 87 !.
187I . , . ' . $ 4i.3Rl.IO
I873 . . , 75,181.7?
IH74 17,118.78
I875 ... 31,091.44
1870 .... tl.KlC.1?
7 ... 4i.IOO.78
. . . I IQ.8I I.OI
79 . . . UoMi,i
88u .... 340000,00
1877
1878