The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-05
OPPOSITION TO PAVING
Serious Obstacles to the Plans
of the Council.
PROPERTY OWNERS OBJECT
In Some Districts It Is Possible That
Paving May Have to Be Given
Up Entirely, for This
Season at Least.

If present indications are borne out,
the council is likely to meet with con-
siderab BILE opposition to its plans for paw
ing this season. One objection has al
ready been filed and it is reported nu-
merous others are in prospect If the
owners of half of the property in any
Improvement district file objections the
street in that district cannot be paved
unless means can be found to overcome
the objection, and it is therefore not
improbable that the council will be balk
ed in at least some of its plans for the
much-needed improvement. and that
some of the paving contemplated may
have to go by the board.
Yesterday the ]. E. Richards compa-
ny, as the representative of the Ameri-
can Security company, filed with the
city clerk an objection to the paving
contemplated in improvement district
No. s, which embraces West Broadway
from Academy street to Montana street.
The document reads:
Butte, Mont. March 4. 1899
ITO the Honorable Mayor and the City
Council of the City of Butte, Mont:
"Gentlemen--The undersigned proper
ty owners Of Butte, Mont, hereby re-
spectfully object to and protest against
improvements contemplated in improve
ment district No 8, West Broadway
from Academy street to Montana street
Yours respectfully,
''AMERICAN SECURITIES co,
by j. E. RICHARDS. County Agent
The American Security company owns
the lots at 125 and 121 West Broadway.
which is but small part of the prop
erty involved, but an effort is being
made to induce the owners of half the
property in the district to object and it
is said the necessary assurances have
been secured. If it is true, the street
will probably go unpaved.
Another district, from which obiec-
tons are expected to be forthcoming
is that district embracing Arizona street
between Broadway and Park street
Ex- Alderman Dorais, who owns proper
ty in the district. has signitied his in
tention of Directing, and as he owns
all but two lots, or about two thirds of
all the property on one side of that part
of the street it is intended to pave, he
has only to induce the owners of the
other two lots on his side of the street
to object to prevent the paving. The
eX-alderman is understood to be opposed
W lDe paving OL al latild street, lOE
the reason that he paid for paving in
front of his property on East Park
street at the corner of Arizona last
year, and as he figures his assessment
for the Arizona street paving would
amount to near $4,000 he processes to
be unable to afford ie8 Another district
in which it is said there will be OBJ
iections, is that district embracing West
Park street from Academy street to
Montana. AS the objections have not
yet been filed from either of these latter
districts, however. it is hoped anticipa-
tons will not be realized. The council
meets Wednesday evening to hear the
objections, and it will. then be definitely
known whether or not the city will ac-
quire jurisdiction to do the paving con-
templated.
That there should be any objections
to the paving laid out is matter of
surprise to the mayor and council as
sense of the property owners interest
ed was taken before the plans We're
contaminated, and it was the general
understanding that if property owners
were not required to pay their full as
sessment in one lump there would be
no objections made, and it was to meet
this contingency that the 10 improve
ment districts were created in order
that the payment of the assessments
might be distributed over three years
time.
1t was pay day at the city hall yes
terday and city employees wore smiling
faces. They Were getting the face value
of their warrants.
City Treasurer Mccarthy has complet-
ed the sale of property for delinquent
city taxes. The city realized about 5000
in cash The rest of the property was
bid in Cor the city.
Organs $40. $35, $40 and upwards sold
on 50 monthly payments at orion
Bros, 219 North Main street.