Show MELLEN MAY MAT AY LOSE CITY GITY GRAVEL fiRA VEL MINE Board of Public Works to Assume Assume As As- sume Work sit H t His Expense CUT STREET BELOW GRADE Now Wants Similar Contract on Second Second- North to Fill Eli I Flo Hole Holc Joseph V. Mellon who became rich by hy taking 11 gravel gravol 1 from finin North Main tair street on OJ a city contract to reduce tin tho street tn to has made matle a proposition proposition proposition tion to to 10 the city to tower lower Second North street from Main Iain to lo Center for 54 00 In addition to selling soiling tI gravel m cJ at 2 cents a load Mullen rl lIen wants to fill lh tin hole holt h he has haH made In Iii his gravel tl pit lIlt In iii Inthe the center of a ell city street In Instead lt ad of accepting that off offer r tin thC board of oC public works is considering the tho l advisability of stepping In and taking tak In lug ing Mellen's work vork from him which under tinder the contract It 1 has the lh right to tc do tb City officials cals assert that Mellon ha has gone Cone far tar b beio below low the tho grade in cutting down lOWn the tho hill hili In order that he hl ma may profit prom from the gravel pl taken there there- from To nil fill the hole and bring tho the would require no cv street t up to grade Mellon eral hundred loads of gravel gla proposing to get them from the thc nearby hill lill on Second North c street The Tho city engineer to lo whom thom w was vas referred lh the proposition proposition on has h held that Mellon Mellen should ho not be paid for foi taking away the dirt and anti gravel gravol rn cl but that he hI ml might ht be he allowed to cut down the grade lle for the material he digs dis out Tune Time Limit Xit Mellen's contract with the city for cutting cUlling down the tho grade glado on North Maui Main street was drawn up April 30 30 1905 and anti the thC work worl ii as as to bo h. completed ll with within I n two to years year At 1 tho the end o of two t years ears ea if the tho work was not completed th he the city was as to get 5 a day for or every tn lay over 1 that time Clerk CIrk Prank Frank of oC the tho board of public voi-ks voi has sent Mellon a notice about aboul th ho he forfeiture but hut since Mellon Mellen n makes male a a. crt great at deal dal more mora than 5 a a. day b by hauling gravel from the pia place cr he can to pay pai th the forfeiture That's why wh the lh board of public works h lias rs is looked the matter r up with witha a t view 1 to th stopping stepping In and completing lie he work The Tho contract provides that It f at an any time lime the board Is not pleased with the tho work and ond j if the contractor contractors Is s not doing It according to contract or 1 r is not doing It fast feist enough nough the Ity ma may complete the work and charge It t to the contractor Mellon It was to receive e cl 12 1250 J. J 0 O on completion of the tho work but he ho has as never ever bothered about that It was the L part of the tho revenue consid- consid red in his original plan pl In the two years ears that he ho has been digging the tho treet street h he hits lias bou bought ht considerable and is variously estimated to too tobe toe be o e worth I The St Second cond North street cut which lollon dellon proposes s to make malce would open I an n unlimited supply if of gravel which I Int nt it t 25 r. r cents or 01 moro more a n load would ring bring another fortune to In Mullen 1 City Engineer helsey e has told the streets ommittee of the city council that hint the tho Ity should tl char charge e n a contractor for tor laking tho the gravel gravol out of the streets Property 0 IU Rights flights Properly ty owners along alone North Main Iain treet who have ha watched the gravel ml sand santi disappear from In front of heir heli homes have hav won wondered wh what t Ight right the tho th city has to give away a some some- rom thing hing Jn in 11 which they under a common law v i principal haw have an Interest st The rhe Wn l have nn an casement to toie the he ie center of the tho street t and anti th they sa say sayf If f they cared to a assert ert their claims icy hey could get t a portion of oC the Iho profits from rom ram the digging Mellon Mellen is now pow having difficulty with Mathews of f th the CIt City Land and and Water liter department department- Ho lie begun be he- gun the te Construction on of or gravel gra traps trap on n a a. piece of leased ground north of ot boulevard on gl ave lV- nue Ue The ThC I traps were ere right on the Ow h boulevard ul and Mr Ir ws Instruct- Instruct oll u d lh the lie Cit City cr creek el canyon canon police to lo top stOp the tho Intrusion |