The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR
What Is to Be Done in the Way
of Municipal Work.
A TALK With THE MAYOR
Much Paving Is Outlined and There
Will Be improvements in the
Streets and in the Fire
Service.

| If the hopes and aspirations Of Mayor
j. H. Mccarthy may be fulfilled, the
public improvements made duringenext
| year will be of notable character and
Butte will take on much more of the
air of big city than in the past. The
| improvements contemplated cover
| wide range. A great deal of paving is
| planned storm and sanitary sewers are
| to be constructed, great many new
sidewalks are to be laid, new fire sta
| ton, or, rather, an addition to The
| Quartz street station, with the idea Of
making that the central station, is to
| be built, and a long needed remodeling
Of the city hall is among the things
| hoped for.
| After a conference between Mayor
Mccarthy and City Engineer Bicken-
bach yesterday. in which outlines of the
| plans for the coming season were gone
| over, fair idea Of what may be ac-
complished If the mayor is able to carry
| out his views was obtained.
"Of course, we may not be able to ac-
complish all we hope for" said Mayor
Mccarthy at the conclusion of his talk
| with the engineer, but we hope to car
| ry out our plans as we have them
roughly outlined Paving is probably
| the most important of the improve
ments we have in mind. We hope to ex-
| tend the paved area very considerably
and in all probability the end of next
season will see paved the greater pur-
ton of the streets that are in need of
this Improvement. Park street on the
west, from Academy to Montana street
| at least, and on the east from Arizona
to Oklahoma avenue will be one of the
streets to be paved. The property own
| erS on the east end want the irnprove-
ment and the west Is already provided
for. Main street from Galena street
| south several blocks will be another
street to be paved. Wyoming north two
or three blocks from Broadway, and Ari-
| IONA street south from Granite are
other streets that need paving and on
| which the property owners want the
improvement. Then there may be some
paving done on other streets. A rough
estimate of the cost of the paving we
now have in view would be in the neigh
borhood of 100000.
IAN improvement of the sewer. sys-
tenn is probably the next most import
4 ant item of public improvement. The
experiences of the past with floods from
heavy rains in summer make 1t impera-
| tive that new storm sewers be con-
| structed and we hope to obviate many
| Of the difficulties of the past by the i'm
| proyements to be made in this line next
year. Among the storm sewers we ex-
pect to build is sewer in Old Town
| gulch from Mercury street south to the
| Northern Pacific railway tracks. This
| will cost somewhere near $4,000. Then
| there are petitions in for a storm sewer
on the west side from Alabama and
Caledonia streets to Missoula gulch. and
| another in Idaho alley in the rear of the
High school building and the Sisters
| hospital. These are much needed for
protection of valuable property from
rain floods.
with reference to the matter of san
| itary sewers, a great deal Of improve
ment Is needed. Sanitary sewers are
wanted on all the streets in the east
ern part of the city to connect with the
| main sewer which was put in in 1897,
and no doubt there will be great many
sewers put in in this district. Sanitary
sewers are also wanted In almost every
part of the city, and in all We shall
probably expend $4,000 in this class OF
improvement
Another much needed public i'm
provement that Is contemplated is the
building of an addition to the Quartz
street fire station, for which ground has
already been purchased. This building
will probably be started early in the
spring, and when it Is completed. in all
proba bility, this fire house will be made
the central station, removing the many
objections to having the central fire sta
ton at the city hall and also giving
room for the remodeling of the hall,
which has been so much talked of and
which is so badly needed, to afford
larger quarters for the cramped city
offices and to bring the police station
up on the ground floor. There is now
no place that is fit to put woman into
at the city Jail nor any At quarters for
the better class of male prisoners. Then
some place is badly needed which, for
want of better term, might call a
receiving room, where persons injured
and picked UP on the street could be
taken and given some sort of care till
the proper disposition of them could be
effected. The patrol wagon and team,
already provided for, could also find
quarters on this floor. All these things
are so sorely needed for the good of the
public service that we are very DESTROYS
of carrying them all through.
I'm addition to all this there will be a
great many new sidewalks laid; there
will be much street grading, and, al
q, together, we hope that next year will see
the city take a very long step forward
in progress What will the contem-
plated improvements for the year total?
Oh, I should say that $4,000 will no
more than cover them.
with the new patrol system in
which is now provided for, and with
the accom- plishment of the plans we
have laid for the coming year. Butte
will be city that l shall look upon
| with a great deal Of pride and which !
| think will compare very favorably with
| any other city Of the size in the coun-
try by the time my term of office ex-
pires."