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Show Street Supervisor's Work. For ills pat six weeks or mure Street Supervisor Wm. Hyde has had his force employed in grading the road to the graveyard. Tbe work was fiuished, for the present, last evening, a ride over the road showing the satisfactory completion of a necessary ne-cessary improvement. The grading began about a half a block east of the 20th ward ccOp. store.on SoulhiTemple street, where a culvert was placed across the street and the road levelled off. Between Fifth and Sixth East streets tbe heaviest work was done, a fill o( some five feet, for a distance of about half a block, being necessary in order to make tbe road even. This fill was an improvement that has been needed for years, and has done away with one of the worst frog ponds and most disagreeable holos in the city. The water, alBO, in this neighberhood, which previously had cut up the Btreet considerably, has been turned into one ditch, and now runs through a culvert across the street. Tbe same work has been; carried all the way along to where the road turns north from 8outh Temple street. From the point also where the road leaves South Temple Btreet, the fills and grading have been continued, until the whole road is as even as can i be under the circumstances, and it is no longer necessary to drive through the creeks which cut the road at the end of each block, the ditches being fiumod and that so nicely that on driving over tbe road it is impossible to tell where the fl timing has been done save where it can be seen by the eye. Tbe 'grading is of such a kind that tbe water will run trom me centre cen-tre of the road into tbe water sees on either Bide, and wherever there has been a possibility of water settling and becoming stagnant, flumes have been placed bo as to cirry it ofl. The only difficulty arising ib where both road and sidewalk have been so low that in filling up the Btreet the side walk ib left in such a condition that water will accumulate and stagnate, there being no outlet. However, as Lhe sidewalks are private property and the law provides that they shall be kept in order by citizens, pedestrians will have to look to those owning the sidewalks .for a remedy. This is particularly the case on the north sidewalk of South Temple street, between Fifth and Sixth East streets, where there is already a green frog pond, which, from appearances, ,hq be easily remedied, and will become be-come a great annoyance if it is not soon fixed. Among other improvements in this connection is that of fiuming the creeks and grading the streets which iutersect South Temple street from the north and the south. Altogether, the road is now perhaps the best in the city, and when thoroughly settled by rains, will prove a credit to the city and tbe supervisor. A branch road has also been graded to the Hebrew cemetery, which lies just east of the city graveyard. In all, eighteeu culverts have been put down in a good, substantial manner. man-ner. A rough estimate of the cost would perhaps place the amount at something over $2,000; on an average twelve teams have been constantly employed in hauling gravel for this marl rhno aivintr omnlnvmfint tn a number of persons and animals. A block of road has also been graded on Second South stree', about three blocks east of Main, which is tbe smoothest and best piece of work in the city. There was, a short time ago, some talk of making a drive on this street, and a subscription was to have been raised for tbe purpose. No actiou, however, appears to have been taken in the matter lately. The gravel used, for the streets, is taken irom a bed opened by tbe supervisor, just northwest of the graveyard, and be is in a fair way oi removing a good sized hill in a short time, which, in itself, will be an improvement. im-provement. To-day it expected that the work of grading First South street, from the Townsend house past tbe city hall, will be commeuced, and so the good work process. |