Show kr S PLAN PLAX our readers will er that at the last session of the city council councilor john presented and explained a project for the construction of a street tramway to be laid down in the ch chief cef thorough thoroughfares fares of the town fo for r the th of conveying on the th t streets fl alfter a better more durable material at leas less expense than had hitherto been incurred by using a stuff which his u uniformly proven anade q re resist s is it the ivea wear r an and d tear by travel and the ravage inclement weather this thie project was referred to a committee of five to look into the requirements require menta of our street im 1111 pro patents and the feasibility and profitability of the plan of mr air we understand that the committee have met and arrived at a con cone clu elusion ion x which which they will present at ahe the next cession olour city fathers 1 although we will not anticipate this committee in their report we vree deem rn the s scheme 1 of conal considerable id erable interest and whatever action may be taken by the council the matter not a little discussion ado among n g the citizens in in general As our reference to the plan in the in intili of was necessarily limited and may not have conveyed a complete idea of the system pro proposed we have taken pains to ascertain the tile details from front mr so that the tho public mind can grasp gras both the exigencies of the situation and ahe value of the remedies advocated I 1 the tile system has as above intimated rn ate X fur tur its exclusive object the c cheapest possibly pos transportation if suitable and durable grading material from nn an of supply to the different parts where the condition of the streets causion calad for improvement it is proposed I 1 to take the gravel from the bena bench between the driving park aud the cemetery the gravel in deposit there is the best material for the purpose that can be easily got gut at and ud it is in abundant quan quail tit buies ies about twenty acres of bur face at least leal from that place the proposition is to lay a track say of three feet width down first street to main alain thence south to eighth eventually as occasion requires with brunches branches to the detward ft Ve eat ward track would consist of T rails iglus to the yard y ard with ties 4 x 5 iuchs and 5 feet long lung it would bu constructed in sections and made portable so as to he taken up and transferred to wherever he rever it would be needed the proposition further isho aae users small malf cars with a carrying cail capacity C ty of about three tons five of loaded to bo be drawn by one horse two men go going aug with each such train one train would be rolling on the track while another would be at the pit loading the 0 gravel agus requiring ten cars with the number pf af laborer to load the five cars at the pit while the other train is coming back TUo TU evars cars would be constructed so as to be easily emptied when arrived at their destination naw w as to the tho expenses of the tramway system tho the length of the whole track would be about two milea miles theiron Thel roa including rails e frogs spikes bolta splices etc would run up into an agg aggregate regate cost of good ties could be got for whilo while the ten cars at 80 each would amount to the whole plant would foot up 84 20 tho the system of hauling gravel from the bed implied in this calculation involve involves an expenditure pend iture of 20 ct co per ton delivered at tae hc corner orlain of main and fourth etaw 1 41 proportionate add additional expense for conveyance further south or west by the tramway system a ton of gravel could be laid down at the same spot for 6 61 acts only one third the cost of the old met method lidd it is claimed that if we come to figure it out we will soon arrive at the satisfaction that the coat cost of the plant and laying 9 down d 01 would be covered by the difference in the cost of transportation in in a comparatively short timo time of course this whole scheme is s only h a well meant suggestion of mr Pin ocl we present io in its fulu eai I 1 in in order th athis 3 position 1011 ba be correctly understood and this hia motives duly appreciated by bi hia constituents and the general public it nifty not now bo be adopted considering si the not over favorable condition of the municipal fi cu but something of the kind will ultimately bave to io bo be done and at a time when material I 1 labor freights and other factors of expense magnot be as low as they are at present |