Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-15
TIME TO DO SOMETHING
To the Editor of the Review:
 Bisbee, Ariz.. Feb. 13. 19(


 | Presuming on the Reviews ever ready willingness to allow the use of | it's columns for the discussion of mat ters of public interest, the writer asks | the indulgence of your many readers, in calling attention to a number Of conditions that need fXin'" ID Bls- l bee.
 While it is evident on all sides that | the property owners of Bisbee are l thoroughly alive on the necessity Ot a sewer and will soon demand an other chance to vote on the prOposi- tion, with the prospects altogether favorable to it's going through next time, there are several other matters that should be taken up and solved by those most interested. if possible, and 1 if no other way by the strenous action i of the city council.
 l The writer refers to the necessity , for the establishment of building lines along both the present and pTOspCc- i tive business streets of the city. The property owners on Brewery Gulch, ! for instance, are handicapped, owing 40 to 50 per cent less business, owing to the crowded and cramped condition of the Ihoroughfare. The same is true of o. K. street and to a less extent of Main. Owners of valuable frontage on all the streets of the city have followed the mistaken idea tnat it is money-in the pocket to fudge out into the street. There has been a wonderful absence of city ordinances regulating building lines and when the council takes action soon. now that a great deal of building is going on, the business streets of Bisbce will in a short time look like they mad been laid out on the lines marked out by some badly intoxicated individual. ! If property owners only realized 1t ! they are losing money every day by not properly regulating the width Of the thoroughfares and providing side walks on which people can reach their | places of business.
 O. K. street should be widened along uniform lines and at least enough room made for a sidewalk on eacn side for pedestrians and with street that will permit the comfortable pass ing of teams.
 | It will only be a matter of year or two until the pressure for ground for business purposes will compel the opening up of the subway back of Main street. There is already con gested condition of affairs up Nam street way that demands relief. 1t | is business folly to continue to make a filthy mud hole and disease-breeding V allow along an already quasi-public thOroughfare that if opened up, widened and made into a street and l line with business houses, would yield
 a return in rentals almost equal to ! property fronting on Main street and pay good dividends on a valuation of $500 a foot front. Moreover, opening Iup of subway street would make the property from the Bank of BisDee 10 the Wedge saloon all dOuble-enJrance business properties and would in crease business generally to such an extent that every piece of property in that section of town would be far
 more valuable
 The paving of the streets of Bis bee is a splendid thing for the town and the writer desires to say what a great many people think that there
 is world of credit due the mayoI
 and honorable board of aldermen oi
 the city for the persistence in striving Ito attain the end sought. There is
 no question what ever but that when
 the city council saw fit to act along
 any of the lines herein suggested il
 will be upheld by wideawake public
 sentiment and secretly commended by
 them who might have the greatesi
 reason to object.
 Let the city council and the chamber
 of commerce both take up the matter
 of the establishment of building line!
 and the opening up of streets and tht
 result will be a tremendous differ ence in Bisbee in a remarkably shor'
 time Outside investors will be eager
 to come in, property will double ana treble, the town will be cleaner and
 more healthful and Bisbee will sooT
 take the place to which her wonderful
 resources, and superb climate en
 titles her-as the undisputed Queer
 city of the territory and absolutely
 without a peer among cities of equa size anywhere on the globe.