Show A the need of improved sidewalks on li ailing streets and the no need of lr those streets has led to bonne inquiry ou the pa t of local bu giness men as constitutes the best material purposes abo cost of which ahall net he too heavy tr the community to bear it will ba remembered that the city council discussed the relative coat and merits of asphaltum aud plank fur with tho rea lu that while the for nir waa preferable and was conier bently selected for the business streets the latter ws deemed not so expensive as to preclude its use on certain residence streets its cost as fixed by the ordinance aas not to exceed echt cents per square foot and that of the asphaltum was not to exceed cente per squire foot we now beirn on good authority that there lias been located aithan a few ailep of uv an inexhaustible mine or bed of the finest kind of which can be laid down in at from tareo to five dollars per toti experts who have seen specimens of it declare that it contains more oil than the material owned by tha provo parties ant this BO far from bainn considered a detriment only enables the substance to consume more pravel and band thus combining v h a manifest superiority the parties who own the claim lack the inmans to put the upon the market but they are anxious to give practical proof of their assertion as to its quantity and quality if as seems probable the organization of a company to work up shall be effected ve hope boon to have the pleasure of announcing that neither plank at any price nor imported at fifteen cents a toot is to iw daiil fur with this corn money but that a lucal company is prepared with its own material to pave our sidewalks so well and so cheaply blut all wilt want them and that the streeta also will speedily come in for the eama improvement pro |