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Show Plans For Street Surfacing Investigated By Council Home owners of Pleasant Grove, are you interested in a plan to pave the streets of this community with little more expense than the cost of sprinkling? At the last meeting of the city council, such a plan was presented and investigations were made. It was found that with all the fine grading work which has already been done on our streets, they have a sufficiently hard base to make an ideal set-up for paving with oil chips, at a very low cost. These flaked rock chips cost $640 a mile, the cost of oiling is lower than usual. In as much as the city has its own graders, and trucks for hauling, and plenty of labor, the cost of preparing the base and oiling oil-ing would be low. According to the estimate, the cost of the paving with what the city would contribute, would not exceed ex-ceed twenty cents per running foot, or ten cents per foot for each property prop-erty owner. The average city lot in the main part of town runs about make the cost to the owner of such a lot ten dollars. Since sprinkling during the five dusty months from May until October costs the average aver-age home owner five dollars, it seems almost incredible that for what two years of sprinkling would cost, the street could be paved with a material which would last about fifty years. The construction would be the same as that used on the secondary highway and that used in many of the neighboring cities, except that it would be not quite so heavy. The plan under consideration by Mayor V. N. West, chairman of the streets committee, and by the city council, proposes to establish a paving district of streets which have the heaviest traffic, which would include the one running east of the bank to the F. C. Shoell corner, thence north four blocks, the street running east of the Union Pacific station to Locust avenue, and the cemetery street running north of the Farmer's exchange. Work on these streets would be begun first and would be completed as far as the city's $1600 yearly street fund would cover the city's expense. Outside this paving district other streets could be added by petition of the property owners on those streets, and the work could be done on them in the order in which the petitions are filed with the city recorder, re-corder, Harold Bullock. Since, of necessity, the rule would have to "first here, first served,", citizens would have no one but themselves to blame if they continue con-tinue to fight the dust menace while their neighbors on paved blocks enjoy the luxury of clean streets and clean houses. Think it over, home owners! Il's up to you! |
