The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-05-09
PROPERTY OWNERS MEETING
Trustees PetitiOned to MaCadamlZe Nine
teenth Street.
Five Year Serial Bonds to be Issued tor
the Purpose-The Scheme Heart
lily Endorsed.

"A meeting the pIOpcllS - =
siding on Nineteenth street, south OF ),
was held in the City Trustees room
last evening to consider the auVlsa-
bility of macadamizing that residence
thoroughfare.
w. D. Lawton said he had taken the
llbertvto call the meeting-as the Board
of Trustees had determined to make I'M
provements on Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth. and possibly Twentieth:
streets south of Gin order to deter
mine the sense of the property-oWners
along Nineteenth street regarding the
proposition
The meeting was promptly organized
by choosing Mr. Lawton for Chair
man. He had figured on the PROPOSE
ton of matchmaking the street, ana as
most of the property-owners had hold
ings of 100 feet frontage he had figured
upon that basis on the serial bond sys-
tenn.
At ST per foot each property-owner
would be at an expense of $3.50, to pay
which bonds would be issued on the
property itself at 6 per cent, one-fifth of
which would fall due on the I'd day of
January in each year, the first payment
to be made January 1, 1897. With
,trifling amount of interest So only will
be paid yearly, and at the end of five
years the work will have been paid for,
and no one crippled financially.
C. c. Duhain said he had been strong
" opposed to the proposition of macad-
amizing the street, and had circulated
q petition against it, but since he had
talked to Mr. Lawton he had changed
his mind entirely. Since it was deter
mined by the Trustees to do the work,
the property-owners should take ad-
vantage Of their share of the SI,oOO in
the street Improvement fund, and also
of the chance to get cheap rock from
the State Bureau of Highways at the
actual cost of the article.
J. A Robin, who was candidate for
Trustee at the last city election, was
opposed to the improvement. He did
not think it was necessary at this time,
and did not see why Nineteenth street
should be singled out. He thought
macadamized streets should be made
in the western portion of the city before
the residence portion was begun upon.
DR.. w. E. Briggs thought if the street
could be macadamized for 81 a foot, or
even little more, it was a very rea
sonable proposition, and the people
should take advantage of it. He heart
lily Endorsed the idea of going on with
the Improvement, and offered to sign
petition to be presented to the Board
or Trustees asking that the work be
expedited.
State Highway Commissioner r. c.
Irvine, who owns $50 feet frontage on
Nineteenth street, south of G., next ad
dressed the meeting. The material
with which the street was to be macad
amized, he said, was to be had one-half
cheaper than it could be had in any
other city in the United States. The
rock would be laid down in the city at
30 cents ton, and the city would stand
one-fourth the cost of the Improvement.
Labor was cheap, and he believed the
improvement could be made cheaper
now than at any time in the near flu
ture. The improvement would be made
regardless of what was said, and the
people should take advantage of cheap
material and cheap labor
In answer to a question by Mr. Du-
hahn, Commissioner Irvine explained the
saving to be derived from using prison
crushed rock, and further explained the
bill passed by the last Legislature
which provided for furnishing rock to
localities for the bare initial cost, plus
the cost of transportation.
A propertyowner asked what would
be the result if, after the streets had
been macadamized, the new system of
sewerage now talked of was put in and
the street and macadam dug up.
My good young man. replied Mr.
Irvine, eff you wait for an improved
street until you get an improved sewer
age system you will wait a long time
for good street"
Mrs. NJ. Wall was bitterly opposed to
any Improvement at the present time
She had been obliged to have the street
in front of her property graded, and had
been heavily taxed for the same, and
now to turn around and pay to have
that grade leveled down again was
something she would never do unless
she was obliged to.
Mr. Lawton said that the bonds to
be issued would be "gilt-edge,' and
that there would be no difficulty in dis =
POSING of them. a petition had been
drawn by him to be presented to the
Board of Trustees, after having been
signed by the propertyowners who de-
sired the Improvement, requesting that
the work be commenced with the least
possible delay, and that serial bonds
be issued for the purpose of securing
the funds necessary for it's prosecu-
ton.
The petition was signed by the fol-
lowing owners of property: w. D. Law
ton, c. c. Duhain, Sacramento Protest
ant Orphan Asylum. Mrs. r. c. Irvine,
William Ellery Briggs George f. Van
Denmark and wife, Wilbur Field Smith.
l.. II. Relya, Mrs. d. Dennison, JabeZ
Turner Thomas Boyd, c. Ryan. A. NJ.
Hovey and Jacob Lang.
Very few persons interested failed 10
sign, and Mr.. Lawton stated that a
great many expressed their willingness
to do so who were unable to be present
No further business coming up the
meeting adjourned.
Ccud;f;n, Of r1r Dorfpr