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The Cost Of The Sewer

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
January
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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lhe topic now uppermost in municipal circles is the costof the main sewer now in process of construction in Ann Arbor. The Argus is enabled to give its readers the exact cost to the middle of January, including the amount allowed by the council at the meeting of January 15, which included the labor bilis up to January 10. At that date there had been ordered paid out of the sewer fund $21,155.22. Besides this there was due on freight $109.80, and there was sewer pipe unpaid for on hand amounting to $1,036.97, which would bring the amount up to $22,301.99. 'If the main sewer is to be completed for the sum of $30,000, the work done and material purchased after January 10 must not amount to over $7,700 The remaining cost of the sewer will be nearly all for labor. Only one deep cut remains to be paid for, that now being made near the tral depot. From Depot street across Washington street the sewer nas been paid for. There is a break of some 2,000 feet which is being built. The sewer at the upper end which remains to be built does not lie very far below the surface of the earth, and consequently will not be costly to construct. The sewer pipe and the iron pipe and freight cost $9,197.69. The iron pipe and freight on it amounted to $2,644.32. The sewer pipe and freight amounted to $6,753.37, of which amount $1,146.77 has not yet been paid. Freight was a very large item in the cost of the sewer pipe, amounting to $2,083.30. The sewer pipe company will not be paid the full amount of their claim. The claim is $6,416.74 aad they have been or will be paid $4,670.07. The saving of $1,745.67 for the city was made by refiguring the bilis of the company. The difference is all a matter of figuring The company in its contract was to deliver the pipe free on board cars at Ann Arbor for a discount of eighty, five and two per cent. from list prices. As a matter of convenience the city paid the freight bilis and the amount was deducted from the bilis of the sewer pipe company. The company's method of figuring the bilis was to figure up the pipe at list prices.Meduct the freight and figure the discount from arnount left. This was really niaking the city pay 81.38 percent, of the freight and accounts for the difterence of $1.746.67.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News