The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-16
PAVING IN SELMA
CITY COUNCIL IS MAKING ALL OF
 IT'S PLANS.
Committee Win Investigate Materials Used In Other Cffies--Work WiiI Begin In Business Dis
 trfct Soon.
Advertiser Bureau,

One may almost count the days when work upon paving the streets of Sell the next month will see all Of the pre- liminary work about competed and shortly thereafter the real work will begin.
 of Selma has been a live one for sev- eral years, but now 1t looks as if the
 principal streets in the business sec
 tion will be paved before another year passes.
 Representatives of number of sts,st l paving concerns have been in the city several days putting the claims of their 1 paving before members of the. city
 council and the Commercial and In- dustrial Association. A conference with some of thes representatives was | had by the streets and lights commit | tee of the city council this afternoon lat 3 o'clock. The conference was merely for the purpose of permitting these agents to explain some of the merits of their wares and what kind
 of contract they were willing to of- ] fer the city
 At the recent meeting of the city council resolution was introduced
 anthorizing oo9ncilmen Grayson. Clay
 and Quinn and City Engineer Smith l to visit other cities for the purpose Of deciding which would be the best
 material with which to pave the streets ! here. This committee will probably | leave the latter part of next week for Memphis, upon an inspection trip Memphis has been selected as the first place which the committee will visit on account of the several repre- sentatives of paving concerns in that | clty which have been here for several | days past. The committee will not | contine its visit to Memphis, but before | returning home, will inspect the paving I of several other cities.
 | CitI' Engineer Julien Smith left yesterday for Mobile. His visit to that city is for the purpose of inspecting a | Y ne rfacr 2tfsta ia bath ur l experimented with there. lie will con- | suit with the committee of the city l council on his return and before the | April meeting. this committee with | Mir. Smith, will agree upon the kind of material which they consider the | best and will recommend 1t to the council. There is little doubt that the
 paving they recommend will be selec-
 Chairman Grayson of the streets and | lights committee of the council, is hav- | ing an ordinance drawn on paving, l which he will present to the next meet l ing. This ordinance will be in accord with an act recently passed by the
 Legislature In regard to Selma issuing
 bonds for street paving purposes Tue ordinance will doubtless pass without a dissenting voice and when it becomes one of the city laws, the actual work | of paving the streets will be started | as soon thereafter as possible. i The burden of paying for the paving g l of the streets will fall jointly upon
 the property owners. although the city | will bear some of the expense. The property owners will be taxed for so many feet of the street paving in front | of their property and the city will pay | for the balance. On the streets where | the street car lines are laid, the com pany which is operating the line, will | pay for the paving between the tracks | and for eighteen inches on each side l of the tracks.
 While 1t has not been decided which street will be selected to start paving i on, 1t is thought that the work will | nmence on Broad street. This is the ! ,FlcipaF street of the city and 1t ia e opinion of many, that 1t should be | paved first. Water street will probah- 1 ly follow. Water street is the street | upon which is located the many whole | sale houses and the committee may de- l eide upon a heavier and different ma terial to pave that thoroughfare. If
 they do so, the contract for paving that l street will probably be let to differ ent concern and if it Is the work or | paving both of these streets could be 1 started at the same time.