The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-29
COUNCIL PREPARES
TOIMPROVFSTREfTS
Joint Committee Asks for Esti-
mates of Cost of Work to
Be Done

The joint city council committee ap-
pointed to consider the question of i'm
proving the streets and roads leading to
the country yesterday decided to OBJ
tain an estimate from the city en-
gineer of the cost of improving a num-
Der of thoroughfares and get informa-
tion from the board of public works as
to the amount that can be raised by
assessment in each instance.
After the estimates and information
have been received from these sources
the committee will select the streets
upon which it is thought improvements
are most urgent and report to the city
council. Ascertaining the amount that
will be needed to do the work, the con-
ference committee will be asked to put
the sum in the budget for 1905.
The streets and roads selected for
improvement, upon which 1t is expect
ed to do the work in two or three
years, aggregate about twenty miles,
and the estimate of the cost is from
$4,000 to $4,000 a mile, six inches OF
crushed rock being surfaced with
three inches of gravel, the roadway
being in most cases sixteen feet in
width. The streets selected are:
Streets to Be Improved
Point Douglas road, from Hastings ave-
nue. to south city limits.
Alton road, from Burns avenue to east
city limits.
Minnehaha street from Seventh street
to the east city limits.
Arcade street, from Seventh street to
the north city limits.
Edgerton street, from Beaumont street
to the north city limits.
Mississippi street, from Acker street to
the north city limits.
Rice street. from Front street to the
north city limits.
Dale street, from Como avenue to the
north city limits.
Smelling avenue. from Summit avenue to
Langford avenue.
Cleveland avenue, from Marshall avenue
to West Seventh street.
Cherokee avenue, from high bridge to
south city limits.
Winifred street, Stryker avenue, Morton
street and the DOdd road, from South
Wabasha street to the south city limits.
State street and South Robert street,
from Concord street to the south city linn
its.
Annapolis street, from South Robert
street to Oakdale avenue.
Concord street, from Page street to the
south city limits.
Would Push the Work
There were but three members Of
the committee present, but Chairman
Schiffmann suggested that it was nee
essary to secure the estimates Of cost
and the amount of the possible assess
ments if much is to be accomplished
in the next year. If the city council
and other officials are advised of the
probable cost of the work it would be
possible, he Thought, to bring about
an agreement that would permit the
pushing of the Improvements and so
complete the streets mentioned within
the space of two or three years.
GuStave SchOlle, president of the
Good Roads association, said that the
organization was willing to make a
campaign in the legislature in favor
of a bill allowing the appropriation of
the amount needed if the authority is
not granted by the present charter. He
thought that about all that could be
accomplished at this time was to Sc
cure the estimates from the city en-
gineer and the report of the board Of
public works, not going to the extent of
passing preliminary orders until it has
been definitely decided what streets
are to be selected.
Comptroller Betz indorsed this plan,
saying that while it has not been de-
cided where the work will be done dur
ing the coming year, such facts should
be known as soon as possible, as it will
be necessary to put in the budget the
amount that will be appropriated for
the purpose.
Mr.. Scholle said that it was his be-
lief that the roadWays contemplated
could be constructed for $4,000 a mile,
his information being that this is the
cost to Minneapolis.