The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-14
At WORK ON THE PAVING
The South Side of Park Street L.
Nearly Completed.
PROGRESS ON NORTH SIDE
The Concrete Has Not Yet Been Laid
Crossings to Be Completed First.
A Weeks Work on
Park Street.

BY this evening il is expected that
the paving will be completed on the
south side of Park street from Arizona
clear through to Renshaw alley. 1t is
not the regular plan for the PAYERS to
work on Sunday. but they will work
to-day in order that the business men
of West Park street may not be dis
commoded any more than necessary. 1t
is customary in the East for a block
on which paving is being dom to be
closed to traffic altogether. In the case
of Park street, however, IL was con-
cluded to have the street opel and the
teamsters can use the street car track
and carry goods over the portions OF
the street which are being paved to
the business houses. 1t is probable that
the south side of the street will be
thrown open for traffic tomorrow.
Fair progress is being made with the
north side of Park street. On East
Park the concrete has been laid the
greater portion of the distance. The
north side of West Park has been
graded but no concrete has been laid
there as yet.
No paving stones have as yet been
laid on the north side of the street. 1t
would seem as though the contractors
should be required to finish their work
at the corner of Park and Arizona.
streets before they do anything. For
more than a o II has been impossf-
BILE to cross Park street at Arizona ex-
cept on the street car track. As Park
is also impossible at Wyoming street,
the fire wagons, In case of fire in the
southeastern part of the city. have to
go west to Main in order to cross Park
street. This has been going on Ions
enough and there seems no good rea-
| son why the Arizona street corner
should not be finished. 1t would save
five minutes of time in getting to a fire
south of Park street.
The Paving contractors will be busy
At least a week more on Park. street.
The street railroad people have been
working on East Broadway and a
about completed their share there yes
terday. They will then move up to
Granite street and should soon have
all their work done.
There seems little doubt that the paw
ing is being done much better this year
than it was last year. Mayor Harring-
ton expressed the view yesterday that
a much better job of paving is being
done on Park street thar was done on
most of Main street last year. City
| Engineer Bickenbaugh is Wei satisfied
will. the work that Is now being done.
One of the paving inspectors. who
watched both jobs, says the work this
year is 100 per e better than that of
last year. The main improvement has
been in the better asphalt preparation
used i'm place of the tar that was used
last year. Contractor Hines himself
admits that better work is being done
this year. but does not attribute the
improvement to the fact that the name
of the firm has been changed from F,
Hines & Co. to L. o. Dugan e. Co
Contractor Ryan says the paving is toe
bloody good. He would be slammed and
disgraced among the contractors OF
Denver when they found out what a
good job he was doing. If he was paw
ing the streets of the Eternal City he
couldn't do a better job.