09/09/1920 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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Thi)nsdsy Rr.p:tambwr t.h_ _1920_ Co32t. ia�jr.�l_ O.on.cernArig the improvement of the roadway ,of Walnut Street from Sample Street to Indiana A venue with asphat,, asphaltic c Mcrete, bitulithic, concrete or brisk, pursuance to resolution no. 803, the Board finds that no ;het it ion- has been filed with said Board by. a majority in number of the freeholders residing on said street to be improved requesting that it be improved with a different kind of pavement than 'the kind heretofore adopted ty the Board in its preliminary order; and the City Engineer reparts .that the Williston Construction Company is the lowest and best bidder for the kind of pavement heretofore adopted ' by the Board, and the Board find that said Williston Construction Company is the lowest and best bidder and hereby lets the contract for said improvement to:him, and orders that said improvement be made with Trinidad Natural Lake Asphalt pavement and all proceedings heretofore had in this matter are hereby con f irmed and rat if ied. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. It. A. ELLIOTT Attested:- HARVEY F. ROSTISER Veronica C. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board . Dated 'this gth. day of September 1920. Signed at. ..et 9:55 A.M.: The following petition filed by Attorney Rolfe over-ruled,'EX �i,: A* Elliott ard.M.".F. Rostiser of Board voting aye and John F. De Haven voting no. Said petition over--rukdd. at 9: 45 A. M. South Bend, Indiana. September gth.,1920. t a the Honorable Board of Public Works, of the City of 'S ouch Bend, Indiana. cent lemon: •- The undersigned, Sanders-Egbert Company, respectfully show and petition to your honorable Bed•y° tha't� 'it is a c©rperat ion duly and legally organised and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana, and that it owns a tract of land approximately s.ix hundred feet in length from north to south and six hundred sixty feet in width from ast to west, with the north side thereof bordering on Sample Street, the east side bordering on the land and property owned by the N. P. Bowsher Co. the south side thereof bordering on land awned by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, or the James Oliver Estate"' ad.d ,. the west side thereof bordering on laud owned by South Bend Wood & Ceal Company. that Walnut Street extends through said property owned by this petitioner from north to south and bisects or divides said tract into to parts, leaving approximately 105 feet thereof on the east s ideof Walnut Street and the balance on the west side thereof, that on said property this petitioner has located a saw mill and appurtenances and acesserios thereto,, Including two spur tracks for the loading and unloading of lumber, wood, saw lags and fuel, that said s _ ur tracks connect with the tract of the Indiana Northern Railway Company which is situate on the property immediately to the south of and adjoining said land of this petitioner, That said Indiana Northern Railway C ompany is a e omm®n carrier for hire and c erects with both inter and intra state carriers, and together therewith for` forms continuous connections by rail for hire throughout the state of Ind iana . anal other states, and has on files rates and charges for switching cars of wood, fuel and logs to and from said property of this petitioner. That Walnut Street through petitioner's. property is being improved .and the improvement thereof necessitates the installation of a spur track on that part thereof lying east of Walnut Street; thdt it will he necessaryfor said spur track to cross Walnut Street at the south side of and within fifty feet of the south edge of petitioner's property and will be constructed in a general northeast and southwest uireetion with a radius of approximately two hundred feet, and will and must connect with the track of the Indiana Northern Railway .Company at a point south of the property, of this petitioner. That said track is necessary in order to utilize that part of said property east of Walnut Street after the improvement of Walnut Street. That should Walnut Street be paved before said track is located, it would be necessary to tear up the'` pavement on Walnut Street; that petitioner cannot state the exact crossing at Walnut Street of said proposed spur track because the Indiana Northern Railway Company has not as yet consented to or designated and agreed to, the place i¢here said track should cross Walnut Street. That petitioner receives at its said plant a great number of carload shipments per year over said: --Indiana Northern.Railway Company and will continue to so receive shipments; that its present track facilities are insufficient and in.ade-- quater. -t& , handlo its bus mess if. Walnut Street is paved prior to the installation of laid .prop®seal spur_;:tra.ek.