The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-22
Communicated.

EDITOR JoURNAL:--I notice in your issue
of the 18th inst, communication from "a
Citizen" which think should meet with
warm and hearty reception from owners of
property in the city. 1t points in the right
direction, and indicates the course that we
should pursue if we would advance to posi-
tion and greatness. '
We occupy position between the North
and East South and West, which gives US
advantages over all other points on the
bower Ohio, as n receiving and forwarding
point, and the greater our facilities for
transporting goods sent from one section to
another, from the Canal and Railroad to the
River and Uice Versa, the greater inducements
we may offer to the commercial interests of
the country to ship goods by way of this
city. In word, if the drayage on goods
passing through our city could be reduced
from % to 50 per cent, it wonld hold out
| greater inducements to the shippers. This
may be done by the Improvement Of our
main streets.
| AS all movements of the kind must have
| a beginning, let some one ON each OF the
principal streets get up petition and circu-
| late it among the property holders on the
! line of street TO be improved, and by that
means be prepared by the time the new
| Council enter upon their duties, TO hand in
. their petitions; and in due time they may
| be able to boast Of good streets and clean
| sidewalks.
The various modes have been discussed,
of Bouldering, McAdamiZing, Paving and
McAdamizing, of Graveling, etc. Thisques-
tion, think, might be easily settled by
viewing tbs Improvement on Main street,
which is now being overhauIed, in connec-
/ ton with the history of bouldering it's orig
nal cost and the incessant labor of Keeping
it in repair-for unless the mud is kept OIL
from the bouldering, it will soon give way,
1 which is clearly proven in thc case Of the
| Louisville and Portland Avenue, some three
\ miles IN length. IT has been bouldered
within the past three years, and some parts
OF it are now in a manner impossible. so
far us the claims OF gravel ARE concerned,
we have the evidence in our midst that it
is insufficient, from the fact that where there
is no other basis than the earth for il to rest
on, it becomes saturated, and the water ex-
tending to the clay, softens il, and prevents
it from becoming solid, rs a street should be
Hence, the question to be settled is this ::
Which is the better policy, to McAdamize, or
pave and McAdamize the streets of our city ?
Paving and McAdamizing was n few years
ago abandoned in the city of Louisville, for
that of McAdamizing or breaking the entire
body of stone placed between the cutters.
This was practiccd but for short time be-
fore it was found necessary TO return to the
process of paving the surface of the street
10 receive the broken stone, which forms a
base far better than the broken stone would
make.
/
Taking the conclusions to which others
have come, would it not be better to adopt
{ something like the following plan: Let the
, street between the cutters be paved, say six
inches deep, and covered with broken stone
in the center, to the depth of say FIVE inches,
7 and at the cutters three inches with n coat
ing of three inches ~ gravel over the en-
tire surface. PRoaPTER.