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Show - , MAIN STREET. The city authorities are having the mud scraped up on Main street and carried away. This is a very good work and one for which the people will feel grateful. There is just one serious objection to this cleaning off of the mud, and it is the fact that the mud that is now being carried away was placed on Main street as gravel to fill up the holes and ruts on the street about three months ago. This, of course, makes an exchange of mud and gravel very lively, and exchange is the life of commerce. When the street is cleared of the mud now on it, it will practically be where it was when the gravel was placed upon it some three months ago. The putting of the gravel upon the street and hauling it off as mud is all dead work, and the taxes expended in doing this work is so much money thrown away. The same thing occurs annually, but Main street is never in a decent condition in the summer or winter. It is the chief business street of the city, and the taxes paid upon Main street property constitute a very large proportion of the city's revenue. Why does not the city either flag it, cobble it, or macadamize it ? At first this would be i quite expensive, 'but when once done it would be done for many, many years, and the street would always be in good repair, and the cost of keeping it in repair would be but nominal. Will the City Council give the matter the attention it deserves? The present manner of keeping keep-ing the street is unsatisfactory always, and the money expended on it is thrown away. |