The record-union., 1899-04-30
* STREET TO Be REPAIRED.
IT WILL BE MADE "A MODERN
THORoUGHFARE.
The Street Railway Company Will
Lay New Tracks and Repair
All Ruts.

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of teams, and for that matter ever ybody
who has any pride in the streets Of
Sacramento, to know that K street is
to be- thoroughly repaired, so that every
unsightly hole viii be filled, every dan
gerous rut repaired
! For months it has been dangerous to
ride or drive over the city's principal
street; its ruts are SO numerous and
| it's diiapidation is so marked that it
looks like a street wholly abandoned
! by those whose duty it has been to see
that it was in safe and modern condi-
ton. But now all this is to be changed
! for the Sacramento Electric, Gas and
| Railway Company intends to rebuild
/ it's tracks from Second to Tenth streets
1 (the worst of it alp, also from K to N,
on Tenth. Under the law the company
| cares for nineteen and half feet
which space includes the tracks, the
/ space between the tracks, and two feet
ON each side of the. tracks.
| Mayor Land was seen relative to the
disgraceful condition of K street yester-
day, and to Record Union reporter
he said:
THE railroad company has ordered
the iron and other material, and it will
begin work as soon as the rainy season
! is over, or about as soon as the ma
terial arrives. The company wild make
al first-class job of what it undertakes ="
A prominent officer of the railroad
company was interviewed last night
He said he was glad to corroborate
Mayor Lands statement, and in fur
Their explanation of the disgraceful con-
dition of K street, he said:
1T was a cheap John, slip-shod and
rotten job at the start The city should
never have accepted K street. for it's
condition is such that our repairs have
amounted to nothing"
What was the trouble?" was asked
"Flmsy work, Lad, clumsy job, done
cheaply. Four by four ties were put
down. and on these Axe redwood string
ers were placed, on which forty pound
girder rails were laid. The stringers
We're not strong enough to hold, and
the whole thing was faulty-so bad as
TO be beyond repair"
Then, what do you intend to do to
improve it?" was asked.
We'll, We'll rebuild entirely from
Second to Tenth and from Tenth to n.
We shall put in the well-known trench
construction so as not to tear up all the
bitumen. The material is ordered and
is on the way here. The chairs (Which
is the name of the device on which the
rails are to resO are not made on this
coast, so they are coming from the
East
Mayor Land and the Superintendent
of Streets have been goading us up"
continued the officer. but the fact is
he
winter for the reason that a rain com
ing down ON our concrete and btu
men would disfntegrate and destroy it
all. But | want to throw out another
thought; it is that the part of the
street which we are about to finish
will shine alongside of that part which
IS the city's-and I guess you'll admit
that the city's portion is silurian."
How soon do you expect to trans
form K street into a modern thorough
farce"
''Of course it's hard to tell about
freight, but I should say on a guess
that Wen be at it in less than six
weeks"
Mayor Land contributes some infor-
nation relative to the city's intentions.
He says that there will be no delay
by the city. so far as he can see.
We tried to get the Legislature to
NIX up Tenth street, but it would not
so We'll have to do it ourselves, and the
city's work will probably not lag much
after the railroad work is I'D to date"
Meanwhile. until the contemplated re-
pairs are made K street is almost as
bad as the old road from Hilo to the
volcano of Kilauea; it is full of danger
Gus ruts and deep holes. At Second.
Third and Seventh the conditions are
particularly dangerous, but there is not
a yard of good street ON the line from
Second to Tenth