Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-16
A BETTER TUCSON Streets to be Graded and Made
 Un form.
Sidewalks to be Put Down Every whsre-A Street Commissioner Appointed-Anothe Police
 men Recommended.

Tucson will be much improved in year or two in consequence of las nights meeting of the council. Tn. council authorized the street com mitte. to carry out recommendations m ads b, the committee for the establishment O sidewalks uniform in width and quality with streets with grades raised in th, middle to level with the sidewalks. { The following is the recommendation made by the committee. The Honorable, the Mayor snd Com
 mon Council of the City of Tucson. GENTLEMEN:-PursuaDt to resolution passed by your Honorable Municipa Assembly bearing date of January 7th 1895, relative to street improvements the undersigned, your street committee most respectfully submit the following viz:
 We have carefully examined the set tied portion of the city aod find the streets moro or less rough, irregular ir grade, and but small portion of the street~ provided with Gefned system oi sideW alks.
 B lievIng the time hss arrived for i'm. proving, beautifying and masing our city more inviting to oCr own pride as well Hs attractive to strangers. we earn estly recommend that all st, eets between the Southern Pacific railroad ou the nor h and Seventeenth street on the south; the railroad grounds cn the east and the city finite on the west, be i'm proved.
 list. By grading sidewalks on both sides of streets as follows: Pace a curbing of red wood or other material on the official grade of the city, and fill the space between said curb and the prop erty lne with earth covered with gravel, or such otaer material as may hereafter be dt termIned.
 2d Put down dressed stone foot veying surface water under ground at street crossings, at such points as may hereafter be designated.
 Sd. Grade al streets herein before re- fefred to, to the official grade of the city, giving the streets convex surface of six inches raIse in the center, said canter to be level with the curblng of sidewalk, and cover the streets wlth .rsvei or such other material as may be hereafter determined.
 Bearing in mind, however, at all time g.: strictest economy in the expenditure of public monies, and as our exchequer Is not excessively tffiuent, improvements sst above me tioned should commence 0n the principle and most trsveied thor oughfares. Other streets t0 receive at feutIon Il dDoee WIIi prru4lt-
 Another important item tD Ehich we would call attention IS Obstructions on tne streets. There being many p.aces whe i'm provements juJ into the stree , ~- recommend that the city surveyor be authorized to report to the street com mIttee any in rsciion on the line of streets or OficIGi grade, either of build ings, fences or other improvements that might be construed as Obstructlons n the streets.
 Al-o that, owing to .he material vari- ance in width of our streets, no regular gauge of side ak has been or can be es.sbli he'd, We therefore recommend that an ordinance be passed authorizing your street committee to determine the width of sidewalk on any and all streets.
 We furthermore recommend that sn ordinance be passed requiring that all improvements built on t line of street must conform to the official grade. All of w5ich is most respectfully submitted.
 c. F. Schumacher,
 Frank E. Russell, tStreet Com.
 Thos Wilson,
 A resolution was parsed by the council in relation t. the forego:dg, as follows:
 Be it resolved, That the street com mittee f he mayor ard common coun- cil of the city of Tucson be and are Hereby empowered to regulate. deter mine and decide the width. length and class of side walks to be laid or im mproved in the city of T ucson, under tbe c0ndi tons of sriicIe7 charter of the city Of Tucson.
 In order that DO legal bubbles may arise therefrom in enforcing the new order of things a street commissioner was created, the c'ty charter calling for such an cfiicIal. The offics was placed Councilmao Schumacher, the char man of fhe street committee, to be served without ray A resolution was also passed to that effect.
 Tie mayor was made the city health officer.
 The pol ce committee reported recon mending another officer.
 Routine business Wss also done. The session was the longest in years, lasting till after II o'clock.