Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-29
STREET MATTERS.
Proposal to Pave Them ali In ,
substantial Manner,


substantial Manner.
The rain of Saturday night was OK
tremely heavy for a short time and the
water flowed down some of the streets
in such quantity as to wash away the
surface mud and leave them in good con
dition for travel. This was especial,
the case with Main street south of Ninth
street. Before the rain that part of The
thoroughfare was 80 muddy as to be al
most impossible, but it now is in gooc
condition and has hard driving surface
Some of the other streets to the west
were treated similarly and with the ex
ception of few places where there were
washouts the streets are not in a very
bad state. Some of the members oi
the Council have about come
to the conclusion that it is a
useless expense to cover streets with
gravel, especially with such gravel as is
generally used here. 1t has been found
that the graveled streets are usually in
the worst condition after the rains. The
porphyry pavements stood the rains very
we'll, but complaint is made that this is
an unhealthy kind of pavement. 1t is
said that in some of the Eastern cities
where it has been used considerably the
property owners are now asking to have
it taken out. 1t is said to retain all'im-
purities deposited upon it, and after it
becomes impregnated with them, to be
very offensive.
Major Bonsall is very strongly in favor
OF paving all the streets with some ma
terial that will last, and it is stated that
an effort will be made at the next session
OF the Legislature to secure the passage
of a bill that will permit the paving to
be done, the payment to be made by
bonds which the property owners can
pay for in ten yearly installments. 1t is
the impression that if the paving could
be done in this manner no one would OBJ
ject to the improvement of the streets.
1t appears that the plan of Major Bon.
sail for paving streets and paying for the
same by the sale of bonds is in active
and successful operation in Denver and
in Omaha. Colonel J. T. Newby, of
Denver, who is visiting this city, stated
yesterday to a HERALD reporter that ,
far as it had gone the law under which
they operated there seemed very salts
factory. This law gave the legislative
oONJ Va ehO CAoy 1hO POWCt W Oiu0I d
street paved. The next step in the pro-
ceedings was the determining OF the cost
of the work, and after this was done the
Council ordered the issuance of bonds to
cover the same. These bonds bore the
names of the streets approved, and were
made payable in ten install
ments, bearing interest at the
rate of per cent. per annum
AS soon as the bonds had been sold the
work was ordered to procsed, and up to
the time he left there had been no de-
lays. The property owners we're anxious
to have the streets paved, especially as
they had ten years to pay for the work,
and while the bonds were liens on the
property it was the general impression
that their payment was no hardship
The property owners who desired to
clear their holding of the lien could do
so, and in every way Colonel Newby
thought the law would prove of incalcu
liable benefit to his city. He was of che
impression that similar law in Cali
fornia would be of benefit to Los Angeles
and thought that active measures should
be taken to have bill covering the
ground passed at the next meeting of the
Legislature.