Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
NOW FOR SIDEWALKS.
The Street Committee Name the
 Widths for Each Street.
A Grade Line will Be Established Next, Followed by Grades and
 Sidewalks ks-IrreguIarttiss.
Tucson will soon have better streets.

Tucson will soon have better streets. l The city street committee. composed of Councilmen Schumacher, Russell and Wilson, yesterday put in most of the day viewing tbe streets, with view to the improvements ordered at the last council meeting. TEey made the trip as preliminary. step to strengthening the streets and changing the grade. In general the sidewalks will be ordered with view to conforming 10 straight streets where the Irregularities are not too marked, and not to the walls of the houses, as heretofore. For instance, on Court street the Buckslew block at the southeast corner juts nearer to the street than at the northeast corner. The side- walk will therefore be made narrower at the former corner than the latter. The sidewalk will be fen feet wide on Stone avenue and about the same pro- portions will be held to on the narrow CT streets. The work of establishing grade will keep City Engineer Chill son busy for 8 month. The grade once established the streets will be built up to It, and the sidewalks built afterwards to the grade.
 The sidewalk widths CT tablished were as follows:
 Camp street from Convent east, ten feet on each side; from Convent west nine feet
 Church plaza on west side, nine feet.
 Messilla street, six feet.
 Main street from Messilla north, eight feet.
 hiain street from Messilla south, twelve feet.
 Congress street west from Stone avenue, seven feet.
 Congress street east from Stone ave- Due, ten feet wide.
 Meyer street south of Congress, eight feet.
 Meyer street north of Congress, Dlne and seven feet.
 Court street from Pennington south, five feet
 Court street from Pennington rorth, eipht feet.
 Convent street. SIX to eight feet.
 Ochoa, SIX to eight feet
 Corral, SIX feet.
 McCormick, seven feet.
 Gay Alley, five feet.
 Cushing, seven feet.
 Simpson, seven to eight feet.
 Kennedy, seven feet.
 Military plaz all around, fourteen !! feet
 All eighty feet strs cts. twelve feet.
 Sixth avenue, SIX to eight feet.
 Tooie avenue, ten feet.
 Maiden line five feet.
 Church street eight feet.
 Otto street, eight and five feet.
 Around Court plaza, ten feet.
 Pearl street, nine and seven feet.
 Alameda street, eight and ten feet.
 Telles street, nine feet.
 Washington street, six feet.
 Council street, ten and six feet.
 Milton berg street, eight feet.
 Franklin street, eigth feet.
 Stone avenue, Congress to Penning- ton, ten feet; from Pennington north, twelve feet; rom Congress to Jackson, ten feet; from Jackson to Seventeenth | twelve feet.
 Jackson, six to eight feet.
 l. is fact that the city hss not two streets 2 like, nor a street that is not narrow or wider or takes ridiculous juts and anglee. IL is said of Boston toHn that ite e'res Is were built on each side | f (, w 'Htua, hence their crookedness. Nov vprth have wavy curves and | do 10 r:i.r, if short and take right | angles. Tu e,n's streets are not even modara' is rrnok"@, like those of it's rort-Irr' ail. "ic Bot ton, but fearfully | ar d nonde fully s,.
 Thea n nf fw.niv- five years ago was a | village Df iDnisc-imina,e N.xIcan huts, surround.si bv ocotillo corraia. Every | owner of lard took in All pn-slble. The passages between the rurrEls wars | perrow and crooked The lrnt be- came city lots and passages were uigni. | fieo with the term ''streets."
 Then came the survey nf ire city st | its incorporation. The city paid S5O00 | for the job. The e- giiear imply took | things, be found them. No: an alley, not street was etraighte."d. Not an | ocot'lio was disturbed. Ali re em- bodied lD tta cnpgioner n T. o' ire ul- arities, the map ,t Tuc+nE. The man | who would comnile corrrct mapof it | would earn S5000 Land increased in | value, 60 that today the cutting of of corners is very expensive matter. Ott, Jackson, Camp, Council and Franklin streets all have abrupt breaks in them, narrowing in places to half the ordinary width of the streets
 Nogales is likely to have an experi- ence similar to that of Tucson. They | have a map now, and it shows as bad condition AS Tucson, but DO official survey. When an official survey is made, it should be with a view to | attaining some semblance of regularity | in streets apd blocks.