The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-26
TO PAVE THE STREET
Owners of Park Property Will Peti-
ton the City Council.
FROM MONTANA TO ARIZONA
Only a Few Objectionable Ma
terial Favored Is Asphalt. Blocks
Being Regarded as Worthless
-Slgners of the Request

The paving PROJECT is up again ana
this time it seems to be favored by
enough property owners to give IL a
fair chance of success. Thus far the
project contemplates the paving OF
Park street. from Montana TO Arizona,
which includes three big blocks
in the most Travelled portion of the
business center.
A petition for the paving OF Park
street is now being circulated among
the owners on that street. 1t is as fol-
lows:
I'VE. the undersigned. owners of real
property abutting on Park street, be-
tween Montana and Arizona, in the
city Of Butte, Mont, hereby respect
fully petition the honorable city coun-
Gil of the said city of Butte to create
special Improvement district embrace
ing said Park street. between Montana
and Arizona streets, and the lot abut-
ting thereon.
nances and orders and contract for
paving the said Park street within
said district, when created in the man
ner now provided by the municipal
laws and ordinances of the city of
Butte, said paving to be done in the
manner decided upon by your honor
able body, as being the best for the
of the property of said district"
The committee is still at work among
the property owners and very few have
refused to sign II. One property owner
declared he was not in favor of paving
the streets as long as the city had to
pay SO per day for common labor. An
other man thought there ought to be
a limit placed to franchises for street
railroads before any money is ex-
pended in the endeavor to improve the
streets. AS a rule, however, little OPP
position is shown and the projectors Of
the paving scheme believe their efforts
will be crowned with success. The fol-
lowing have already signed the petit
ton:
State Savings Bank, John II. Curtis.
Lee w. Foster. u. Dora1s. Thomas La
velle, Barrett & Jacky. d. w. Tilton.
Frank stephens, j. ]. York. Lienemann
& Schmidt, ID. Goldberg, NJ. +. Mayer,
Robert NJ. Renshaw, George Wood
ward, Nelson Bennett, ]. T.. Open
heimer, A. A. Mcmillan. II. Horst Pat
Mullins, S. V. Kemper. A. Well, James
II. Lynch, d. II. Steele.
The matter of selecting the style OF
pavement is left to the council. The
committee seems to favor asphalt, and
regards wooden blocks as a failure.
The following from the st. Louis Re-
public giving the views of Commits
sioner Miner of st. Louis on brick and
asphalt will be of interest at this time:
Tuesday night there were intro
duced in the house OF delegates ord-
nances to improve seven west end
streets with vitrihed paving brick.
This is the beginning of the move
ment to radically reform the paving
of residence streets. In il the city Off
Gals see the beginning of better and
cleaner streets i'm the residence dis
ri 10 To haz afts
with hard. even, smooth surfaces To
keep them clean. The Tedford and
other kinds of macadam streets are the
great foe of a thoroughly clean city.
They cut up easily and the wind car
ries the dust or vehicles carry the mud
onto the other streets and the result is
dirty streets. Macadam streets make
fine driveways, but II is impossible to
clean them, and when they have been
sprinkled after heavy traffic II means
mud and plenty of it, Street Commits
sioner Miner is a strong advocate Of
brick or asphaltum streets and is do
ing all he can TO have all streets paved
with those materials in the future. He
will also combat any further wooden
block streets. as IT is almost impossible
to keep them in good repair. or to keep
them clean.
Another reform in the method of
keeping the streets in order that the
proposes 10 put in force
this year is to compel the contractors
to use sprinklers with smaller holes so
that the shower Of water will be lighter
and thus lay the dust while Il does not
make the streets muddy. The food
ing OF the streets caused many COM
plants last year and IL is hoped TO
avoid these complaints this year.
THE interest being taken i'm better
and cleaner streets is increasing daily
and will no doubt materially aid the
street department in securing the
amount of money asked for by the
this year. A systematic
agitation Of the subject will help the
matter along"
The new code provides for the pay
ment Of the COS. of paving as follows:
THE cost OF paving, curbing. gutter
ing. sidewalk and all material for the
roadways or the sidewalks must be
charged upon the adjoining or abutting
property as a special tax or assess
ment, and collected and paid "a herein-
after provided.
Whenever the estimated speciaI
taxes, or Assessments. for paving
curbing. guttering or sidewalks. TO be
assessed against any property In the
aggregate. amounts to more than %
per cent. OF the assessment value OF
the property, then the council must
provide out Of the general fund for the
payment of the amount In excess OF
said 20 per cent"
The cost of the paving will not reach
% per cent. OF the cost OF the property.
and therefore the property owners Of
Park street will pay IL all IL the ma
jority OF property owners interested
favor the scheme the paving will un-
doubtedly be ordered by the council