The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-08-03
GREATER TEXARKANA.
Improvement District No 5
Now an Assured Fact.
MILES OF PAVED STREETS.
Petition for Improvement to be
Presented to City Council
at Once.

we announce today that the Citi-
zen's Committee. appointed at
mass meeting on the east side some
time since, wouud up its labors yes
terday, and secured the necessary
majority of property interests to
insure the formation of Improve
ment District Number Three,
At the meeting of the city coun-
Gil next Tuesday night, tbs petition
asking for such improvement dis
trict will be presented to the city
council and the district will then be
formed, three commissioners APP
pointed to carry the work into exc
cution. The commissioners will then
advertise for bids on such work and
let the contract as soon as possible,
the work to begin early in the fall.
The committee who pushed this
good work, composed of some six or
eight of our best citizens, deserve
great credit for the interest and
zeal they have manifested therein.
Mr. @, O. Turner was chairman of
said committee but was called off
to Colorado, and Messrs. B. NJ. Fore
man, E. K. Smith, G. A. Hays, Jno.
P. Kline, J. D. Ingram, E W. Frost
and others, ably pushed it to sue
cessfuL termination. They secured
not only a majority of the property
interests, but some fifteen or twen-
ty thousand dollars over,
AS has been stated in these col
umns several times, the improve
ments to be made include a district
beginning at the Union Depot, run
ming out to Seventh street on State
Line Avenue, thence east to Beech
street, thence south to north line of
Fifth street, THENCE east along the
north line of Fifth Street to the
wesl line of the alley in Block 81,
thence south-easterly across Fifth
street to the west side of the alley
IN Block AZ, thence along the west
line of said alley to the west line of
Maxwells End Addition, thence
south along the west line of Max
wells End Addition to the east line
of Hickory street, thence south
along the east line of Hickory
street to the south line of Broad
street, thence west along the west
line of Broad street to the east line
of Walnut street, thence south
along east line of Walnut street to
the north line of Front street,
thence west along the north line of
Front street to the point of the be.
ginning, The work to be done is to
paye three blocks of east Broad
street with vitrifed brick, and to
grade and gravel the remaining
portion of the district, to put in til
ing culverts at all street crossings,
and concrete and rock cutters and
curbing along all streets, so as to pre-
vent surface water from washing.
The estimated cost of the improve
ments is about fifty thousand dol
lars, and with a low tax rate, will
require about twenty years to pay
out Already we understand, par
ties have offered to loan the district
money at five per cent. interest,
Next to the improvement Of put
ting in sewers, this is decidedly the
most important work ever inaugu-
rated in this city, and when it is
once completed TeXarkana will be
in line, and upon about the same
footing IN the way of improve
ments, as Pine Bluff, Ft Smith and
Hot Springs, cities about her size,
we will then have miles of paved
streets.
In order that all may know who
signed the petition for these i'm
provements, we give the names Of
the sgners as follows Turner Bros
f w Mullins, ] W Harris, j T Ows.
ley, W E Welcome, j Huckins, E w
Frost B NJ Foreman, N E Foreman
} D Sanderson, State Bank Of Tex
arkana, b X Smith, NJ E Dillard,
j w Gardner, Mrs, Lena Gardner,
j p Kline, Leila l. McFadden, M Kos
minsky Sarah Kosmiusky, l. A
Lawson Harriet Scberer j D In
gram, Lucy f Ingram, M S Shup-
trine, Hoffman Hardware Co., Mrs.
T L l. Temple, B 7 Estes, Mrs Jes-
sic A Estes, f w Ohenhauser, L A
Byrne, j M Carter, Nellie Estes
Carter, L G Adams, G A Hays, A G
Wood E D Lingold, Mrs. Verneta
Llngold, W H Arnold, Jessie Ar.
mold, W. 7. Murphy, W II Casey, ]
G Sbiver, W G Cook, 7 A Bryant,
Cora Lee Ragland, Mrs. J A Light
foot, Mrs, J M Lightfoot, J McEl-
roy, Mrs Henry Tyler, Mrs. Y Gas.