The herald., 1897-09-23
Proposed Improvements
Probably Defeated
REsuRFAcINe PROTEST
OVER 5000 OUT OF 10000 FEET
REPRESENTED
Contractor Joyce and His Rolled Bar
ley-A Number Of Crosswalks
Are Wanted

The owners Of property on Spring
street, between Temple and Ninth, who
have been opposing the proposed work
Of resurfacing that thoroughfare, which
was petitioned for several weeks ago
and which Is now pending in the city
council. seem to have been successful
in their efforts to defeat the proposed
Improvement. Five minutes before the
time for closing the office Of the city
clerk yesterday afternoon several of
these property owners appeared and.
filed a protest against the work being
done. The protest is as follows:
I'VE, the undersigned, property own
ers on Spring street, respectfully protest
against Spring street being resurfaced'
between Temple and Ninth streets. The
street requires mending and patching
only, and it will cause a great injustice
to lis to have the street relaid"
Below this appear the sigma lures Of
eighty-five persons representing por-
tions of every block on Spring street
and with each signature appears the
number of feet of property which each is
said to own or control. The total num-
Der of feet of property on Spring street
proper which is represented on the pro-
test is 6343, and in addition to Ynis two
pieces Of property on Main street where
that street is intersected by Spring, ana
which would therefore be included in the.
assessment for the improvement, are
included in the protest. These measure
172 feet, making the total appearing on
the protest 6515 feet. The protestants
claim that the total number of front feet
Of property on Spring street which is
liable to assessment for the cost Of the
proposed resurfacing is TO- and that
all that was required to make the pro-
test effective was 5435 feet. According e
to this estimate the protest is supported
by owners of 1880 feet more than the
necessary majority.
Inquiry made at the office Of the city
engineer as to how many feet of prop
erty there were on the street. and a
hasty examination of the plat Of the
street, showed that there were approx
imately 10,74O feet This number is not
exact, but it Is not more than fifty feet,
more or less, than the actual measure
ments. If the protest contains the num-
ber of feet claimed, and the signatures
oiC oii icS dIbu iIldu6 Dy the real
owners or authorized agents of the prop
erty, the proposed improvement is de-
feated by larger majority than the
protestants claim, and the difference
between their estimate of the total
frontage and that Of the city engineer
Goes not change the matter.
When the petition to have the work
done was presented to the city council
it was stated that the majority of the
property was represented by the sigma
ttires appearing thereon. If this was
true some Of the owners have been In
duced to change their minds. The work
of those opposed to the improvement has
been done quietly, and those in favor of
1t have taken no action since filing the
petition, being, perhaps, confident that
the work would be done, as they were
satisfied with the showing made on the
petition. The protest will come up be-
fore the next meeting of the city council
and will be referred to the city engineer
for the purpose of examination to ascer-
tain whether 1t contains a majority of
the total number of feet of property, and
if 1t Is found so the proceedings to have
the work done will be abandoned. Ac-
coding to the rule in force in the council
the matter cannot be again brought up
for six months.