The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-08
PAVING FOR NEXT YEAR
Council Cannot Wait Until the
Coming Spring.
PLANS MUST BE READY
Some Aldermen Think That Property
Owners Should Be Given Rest
for Year-Some Sug-
gestions.

The paving committee of the city
of paving for next year, it being con-
sidered necessary that all the paving
which it is proposed to do next year
be decided on before the end of this
year. 1t is found that if the council
waits until spring to order the paving
and let the contract there are bound TO
be numerous subsequent delays and as
a consequence there is no paving ac-
complished until late in the season, and
it is not possible to complete it all be-
fore winter sets in. This year, for ex-
ample, 1T has not been possible to fin
ish all the paving for which contracts
We're let, and hence the Park street
paving has been postponed until next
year. 1t is also found necessary that
the street railroad rails needed for thu
paved streets must be ordered at the
beginning of the year in order to in
sure their delivery in Butte in time for
the following years paving. For these
reasons the committee and the city en-
glneer have been instructed to deter
mine at once the amount and the loCa-
ton of the paving which it is advisable
should be done next season and to re-
bort to the council at its next meeting
A few of the aldermen are averse to
doing much, if any, paving next sea-
son, and express the view that the prop
erty owners should have a rest for a
year or SO before any more paving is
done. Others, however, point to the
fact that the only navigable streets in
Butte during the muddy weather are
Inc paved streets, and they think that
the sooner the central part of the city
Is all paved the sooner will the city re
| credit to its citizens. They are in ia :
| Nor OF doing paving next year and Of
doing lots of it. In fact. some of them
are laying out for next year more paw
| ing than the city has done in all the
three years since paving was begun i'll
Butte. The council may not approve
or all that is recommended by the COM
nlttee but 1t seems likely at this time
That there will be good deal Of paw
ing ordered for next year. and probably
more than in any previous year.
|. The paving talked Of for next year is
as follows: West Park street, from
Academy to Montana, being the paving
Tor which contract has already been
let, but which cannot be done at this
late season: Lower Main street, from
Galena to Maryland avenue: Wyoming
street, from Park to Mercury; Arizona
street, from Broadway to city limits
East Park street, from Arizona to city
limits: East Broadway. from Arizona to
Covert: Wyoming, from Broadway to
Quartz; Quartz, from Wyoming TO
Alaska street; Alaska street, from
| Granite to Quartz,
There is also some talk of paving
Montana and Copper streets. but It is
doubtful if the city goes that far next
year.
AS to the material to be used, there
| is general feeling that Butte has
about enough Of the granite block
Pavement for the present, and that in
the streets to be paved next year some
other character of pavement should be
| used. Some favor using asphalt blocks
for streets where the traffic is not too
heavy, blocks of asphalt now being
furnished in many cities so that it
would not be necessary to lay the reg
ular asphalt pavement Many favor
the ritrified brick, which is the charac-
ter of pavement which seems to be
most in favor in the East and is suitable
for all classes of pavement. 1t is said
that beds of clay for vitrified brick have
been discovered within % miles If
Butte.