Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-22
AN INLET DEMANDED.
Citizens Who Think the City Should
Bear Some Expense.

Citizens Who Think the City Should
Bear Some Expense.
The following contributions to the street
improvement literature of the day were
received yesterday;
EDS RECORD UNION: While have read
with much interest the many able argu-
ments and suggestions made at the public
meetings held here in the past two weeks,
concerning the best mode of fixing our
public streets, | am surprised at not seeing
single suggestion made in reference to
the all-important question: Can we get
along without the trade of the surrounding
country? If we cannot, let US at once go
ahead and devise some means whereby the
farmers and their teams with loads of pro-
Guce can enter our city without being
stalled in the mud, after crossing Thirty
first street, as is the case at this writing. |
know of four teams to-day hitched at Oak
Park, while their owners had to do their
purchases on foot, and one of them told
me, This is the last trip will make to
Sacramento this winter, unless she fixes
her streets so can drive in"
l presume most of US are aware
that the trade we are now losing
by having no inlet to our city is fully S12,-
600 per week. or S4S coo per month. l be-
lleNE lDaS - Ouk u SlDdll Gllu
this is but mid winter as yet, one can easily
see the great loss we will be at before the
season is over, unless something is done at
once. Now, talk is cheap, and we are all
very willing TO give good deal of it for
very little money; but l say something
must be done now, and here is nv plan.
Take some street, say L or n Il mention
these two because they are graded and
graveled from Seventh 10 Fifteenth street,,
let the city of Sacramento pledge itself TO
pay one half the expense of putting good
bed of gravel on either Of these streets,
from Fifteenth TO Thirty-hrst street, and let
the owners along the said street pay the
OTHER half. This will give an outlet to the
Brighton road and the upper Stockton road;
th=n let the city do.the same in the case OF
Twelfth street. from ] to the American
river bridge. This will admit the farmers
from all that vast country beyond the
Norris grant. Then, when this is done, we
have re-opened our relations with the
country, and we can take the balance of
the winter to discuss the best and cheapest
way to make our streets the finest in the
land. j. g. MARITIME.
EDS. RECORD UNION: There has so much
been said about street work of late that
am constrained to say a word in that line.
U61tNG tldl lLC mus va Jul PCOPAC o4C IL
favor of improving and oruamenting the
streets, and believe the most of US are in
favor of the Thirty frst-street plan. Now
to make q start, why not ask the city to
start in and grade and pave one street TO
the city limits at the city's expense? The
cost certainly should be an equal burden
upon all taxpayers, as all are equally bene-
flied by the roadway. By adopting this
plan we avoid sill contention and in
augurate the work. Therefore, let our
Board Of Trustees Immediately get TO work
and put the ball in motion. Convince the
people that there is no Job in it and there
will be no kicking, and our Board will not
be called upon to speak harshly 10 those
citizens who think they have some rights
besides paying taxes. l would therefore
suggest that committee of citizens be ap-
pointed by the improvement Association to
select either L or n street for this purpose.
and then let the improvement Association
20 in mass and demand OF the Board OF
Trustees their rights as citizens and tax
payers. If this is done the people will then
be found a unit upon the subject, and peace
will be established. a. b.
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