The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-21
ARE At WORK n EARNEST
PARK STREET is TORN UP
Stag Proves to n Better Than Broken
Stone Rslaying b Pavement on
eou1 Main e~treet-ln Other
Sections OF III City.

There was great activity yesterday
on the streets of Butte in the central
part Of town-more activity h was
ever shown here before. The work OF
street Improvement is IN in good earn
est and hundreds of men are at work.
There are connections being made OF
gas pipes. water pipes and sewers.
there are catch basins being placed in
position, street car tracks torn up and
paving laid.
-aost Of the work IL on East Park
street, which Is so torn up that 1t is
scarcely passable. The street car COM
pany has torn up its lower track on
East Park street from Main to Ari-
zona street. and has laid the new track.
constructed for paving. as far as Wyo-
ming street. The concrete was being
laid between the street railroad tracks
on East Park street under the direction
of John McCrimmon. Stag Is being
used by the street railroad company to
mix with the concrete. Stag was used
on the first block of the Main street
paving last summer and was then dis
carded for broken stone. After trying
both II seems to be the opinion that
the Stag is the better of the two.
South Main street. between Park and
Galena street, torn up for the street car
track. is being relaid. The concrete Is
all down and the blocks are being re-
laid.
At the corner of Main and Broadway
the paving has been torn up and the
street railroad company's turn-outs
were put in yesterday. On East Broad
way the old track is being torn up to
make room for the paving rails. At
the corner of Main and Quartz streets
the paving has also been torn up n
the turnout of the Walkerville line n
Quartz street has been laid.
The street car company Is directing
all efforts to getting one track on East
Park street and one on East Broadway
aid and paved before the races begin.
The plan is to run the race cars up
Arizona street to Broadway. west on
Broadway to Main. down Main to Park
and east on Park to Arizona. II the
Broadway track and one track on Park
can be completed before the races be-
gin, the crowd to the track can be
handled in good shape. The other Park
street track and the west side tracks
| can be paved later.
There is still much kicking over the
very inferior quality of concrete ex-
posed by tearing up the pavement be-
tween Park n Galena streets. The
paving at the corner of Park and Main
street and the corner OF Broadway ana
Main, so far as torn up. is all right.
The contractors claim that the poor
| concrete on the block W Park and
| Galena streets was due tosthe frosty
weather. The frost got into the con-
crete and spoiled the cement.
The mayor said yesterday in regard
I to the Standards criticism of the paw
ing torn up between Park and Galena
| streets:
There is no doubt that it is just as
bad as the Standard represents. But ]
think II should be understood that the
only portion that has been torn up is
the share of the street railroad COM
pany. ] believe the rest of the paving
is all right. ] believe it will last for
decades. The portion torn up between
Park and Galena streets is certainly
bad. but that is the street railroads
portion"
Manager Wharton of the street rail-
road company said on this subject:
1T is true that this portion torn W
was charged to is n we paid for it
1t is pretty bad, too. But we didn'
pave that ourselves. We paid the city
for 1t. and all we had to do with it wa:
to pay the city what IT cost. The wori
was done by the contractors who die
the rest of the city's paving"