The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-09-02
A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
"A NUMBER o. THE PROPERTY owgERs OBJ.
JEcr TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THE
sTREETs ARE TO BE IMrRovEp.

JRCT TO THE MANNER IN WHICH IHk
srREETs ARE TO BE IMPROVED.
Some of our citlzens, owners of
property along the line of the proposed
improvements on Second and Madison
streets, are very indignant. They're
mad all over and have threatened to
serve an injunction on the work for
the reason that they believe the plan
adopted by the council to be an un-
tried and comparatively unknown one
and they do not feel disposed to pay
for socalled experiments which are so
expensive as this. A meeting
of the dissatisfied parties was held and
a committee of three, consisting of
John Ray, S. L. Kline and Peter lie
rolf,appointed to draft remonstrance,
which they did, and the paper together
with the petitions was presented TO the
council at the meeting Wednesday
evening with the signatures of fifty
three Of the property owners along Sec
cnd street attached). We present the
paper in full:
PETITIONS.
To the common council of the city
of Corvallis:
We, the undersigned property hold
ers on Second street of the city of
Corvallis do hereby remontraste against
the manner of improving said street,
as proposed by the city street commit
tee, and instead of tile drainage, we
recommend surface drainage.
To the common council of the city
of Corvallis:
We the undersigned property hold
oers on Second street of Corvallis, Ore
gon, hereby petition your honorable
body to grant that said street be i'm
proved about as follows:
Where the street is too low, fill in
with gravel to the established grade;
where it is too high, or above the
grade, cut, and if the present gravel
bed has to be cut through, then cut
enough to re-gravel 4 to 6 inches deep,
slope from center to sides of the street,
with surface gutter drain, concrete or
: gravel.
REMoNSTRANCE.
The committee appointed by Second
street property owners to take into
consideration the plan of improve
lnents ON Second street together with
the petitions as circulated and signed,
and the contract as adopted by the
city council:
lst. The petition as circulated by
the city marshal and signed by said
property owners was for grading, grav-
cling and guttering said street.
End. The contract SO entered into
by the city council goes beyond the
plan submitted to and signed by prop
crty owners, in that with grading, gut
fering and graveling, they have added
thereto drainage, thereby calling for
terra Gotta pipes of to 6 inches laid
upon each side of the street at a depth
of not less than three feet from surface,
ehe excavation filed with gravel upon
said pipes. This calls for large ex-
ira expense to the property owners,
and which was neither contemplated
by the property owners or suggested
by the agents or officers of the city
council when the petition was pre-
sented and signed.
3rd. The people had this fact dem
onstrated to them fully the two past
winters on Main street, that where
hollows were in the street these would
fill with waite, and remain for weeks,
and until the same as dried by the
wind and sun. No drainage pipes
could have been of any assistance from
the fact the water could not penetrate
the hard and compact floor upon
which it lay. Such must continue to
be the case where traffic goes, viz, from
curb to curb. Therefore we, the said
property owners of said street, pray the
honorable city council to enter into no
contract requiring said drainage pipes
to be used, for your petitioners must,
and do hereby protest against which
we believe most useless and costly ex
pense. JOHN RAY.
: s. L. KLINE Com.
+. M. ZIERoLF.
These papers were brought for con-
si,leration of the council, which body
laid tlaeni on the table without any ac-
tion being taken on them whereat the
ire oi the signers was aroused to a
boiling point and heated dis
cussion was rife on the streets and at
all places wherever group of citizens
came together. The signers of the pc