Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-28
Members of City Council De- eide to Make Railroad
 Ave. Better Street.
WILL BE WiDENEDgg
 ToF0RTY FEET,
Want Copper Queen Company to Make Improvements on Pant Between Depot and Plumbing Shop.

Railroad avenue from the K. P. X S W. depot to the bottom of tEe hill below the slag dump is to be widened, graded and wherever possible straight ened out.
 That this important municipal i'm provement will be made without fur ther delay was decided upon yester- day by Mayor Caven, Aldermen Hughes, Hogan. Allen and Morris. who spent part of the afternoon with Street Superintendent Mccullough viewing the street.
 Beginning at the depot, the matter of widening the street will be taken up with the Copper Queen Company and the Ei Paso & Southwestern road, who own the property on both sides to the slag dump. It is beliey- ed that they will meet the city's re- quest.
 Instead of passing the city barns on the north side, the road will be changed to the south side, following the slag dump to the bottom of the canyon. At that point it will be made several feet wider, and a sharp turn avoided
 Seen after the members of the Council had carefully viewed the whole street from the depot down. Mayor Caven stated that starting work on the Improvements is but matter of a City Council meeting, Every member of the Council is heart lily in favor of the contemplated changes. =.
 ''we have practically decided" said he, ito make the street forty feet wide, lower the grade in some places, raise the center all along and put Ill a walk on one side.
 "As soon as possible We will take up the matter of widening the street between the depot and the Bisbee Plumbing Company's shop with the Copper Queen Company. We will ask that buildings below the new city hail be moved back so as to make a straight street and that the street be widened by the addition of a walk along the south side and on ground owned by the railroad company"
 Material to be moved from the slag dump to make the street wider in that section will be hauled along the read and deposited several inches thick, the intention being to make of this a sort of pavement. It has been used in other parts of the city with success. $;
 Members of the Council are par ticularly anxious to do away with the sharp turn in the road at the city barns. This has been a dangerous place for years, several accidents ec- curing at that point. A number of people have narrowly escaped being run over by buggies on dark nights.
 Mayor Cayen stated that the import arce of Railroad avenue has become srch as the only connecting highway between Bisbee and Lowell, the Bo- nsnza Circle camps and the outlying country that the city must take steps at once to put it in better condition.
 Travel over this sreet," remarked the Mayor, almost equals that on all the other streets of Bisbee. Until 1t is repaired and put in better shape. will consider that We are not dolng our duty. This afternoons trip Of in- spection, am sure, will result m ac' tion at the next Council meeting.
 That the repairs can be made al much less expense than if the work had to be done by contract Is mention ed by Coucil members as one Of the reasons why the work should be done. Almost all of it can be accomplished with the labor of prisoners in the two jails.
 Street Superintendent McCulloush states that in his opinion there will be little expense other than that for blasting the slag dump attached to the work. The jails generally contain fom ten to twenty prisoners, all oi whom will be worked.
 While out yesterday the Council nembers discussed what disposition IS to be made of the grade on o. K street where it enters Railroad avenue: It is probable that several feet VIII be graded away between the Pythian Castle and the south end of the street
 Fifteen minutes were spent at the city hall, discussing the furniture that must be installed. It is planned to d. vide the room into two sections by a low railing, one part being for specta- tors, the other for Council members. Mayor Ceven will be seated on raised platform. Members of the Council will have separate desks, which will be ranged in the form of a half-circle in front of the Mayor.