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Show MAIN STREET PAVING. Councllmen TMnk the Work Is Not Progressing Fast Enough. 1MI1T Ml!. JliNM.MlS S1YH. Curb Cutlers and lllocL Makers In Ilcinand at Hood AVoges, Homo Laborers I'rcfctrcd. It Is entirely probablo that tho sub. Ject of street pavlug will be brought again at the meeting of tbo City Council tonight. Home of the membors of that boJy expressed pronounced pro-nounced dissatisfaction today for tho reason that the work was not being puihod with the rapidity they believed It should be. They were In favor, they said, of enforcing to the uttermost the resolution resolu-tion recently Introduced Into the council coun-cil by llloh, which called for tho employment of a largo number of men and the working of three shifts of laborers labor-ers ovory twenty-four hours. With the streets properly Illuminated with electrlo lights they say that greater rapidity In the work can In accomplished accom-plished at night when the streets are cleared cf passing vehicles and other obstructions. Itegardlug the work Mr. Jennings of tho Culuier-Jonnlug l'avlng company aald to a IN'kwh reporter today that his company pjt about twenty teams nnd nearly as many men on the streets this morning and that Iho number would bo Increased each day this week. Ho eald also that they had sulllolcnt stouo at their yards In this oily to curb four blooks ou Main street. Al tho quarry Iboy had a force of men at work who wero gettluz out seven thousand stonu blocks per day. Twenty-eight experienced miners wero digging asphalt from the mountain moun-tain and itanlula and lloldawayof I'rcvo were haiillug It to thu railroad a dltbiuca of four miles for shipment to this city. The grading now In progioia on Main strut, said Mr. Jennings, would bo tarried en In such a manner us to give Iho least po.ittilo Inconvenience to the business men and thu public generally. The work was being done under the Immediate tiirvlslon of Iho board of public works and city engineers. The company wan thu servant of tho city aud would comply with nil thu requirements require-ments aud tluluttonu ot their contract. They were willing to uu all jiosilble Imstu nnd tako every advantage of thu westher and nil other conditions. About ouehuiUrvd and fifty mon, all told were employed by thu company and more aro being engaged dally, Mr. Jennings said howas particularly nux loua for all tho stone cutters mid bloek makers In this section of country to call at the company's olllca fur inn) toy mriil. They could get ttork ut good wages. Home laborers were given tho prelerenco, Home of tho curb cutlers and block makers, however, had to be brought from the i:sst Inasmuch ns that class of tradesmen were rather KMco here. |