The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-06-14

telfGrd, as we have had better sue.
cess with II In road building, having
tried both, but neither OF them could
we consclentiOusly recommend a. be
ing pavement that you could put
down and have no further trouble
with street repairs for twenty years
or more. probably forty or fifty. for
you would need to give 1t attention
more or less continually ind IN the
end, II your city grows, 1t would have
to come up and be replaced. At a
greater expense than If you did no
thing more than trim up the street
surface from time to time as you are
now doing
For a pavement that will last and.
not give any occasion for repairs for
a long time, We recommend Nitrihed
Paving Brick on a concrete fOunda-
ton Of 5-inch thickness. Surface to
be grouted with cement grout AS
phalt or Bitullthlc pavement would
be about The same price AS brick, but
unless carefully put in 1t would not
be as good from the start and we feel
certain that the brick will Oltlast
either of the above pavcments The
brick pavement is of course much
more expensive than telforI or ma
cadam. but It Is in every sense uf
the word a pavement, which the 9th
er is not, and II II Is once built you
will never have to worry about that
part OF the streets of Pennington.
IF you decide that a brick street
Is too expensive an improvement to
build, we are in doubt as 10 the adj
visibility OF general Improvement
Of the streets, to the extent of tear
ing up what you have In place 10 re-
place II with material OF a like ma.
ture, though we would not go so far
as to advise against It and will say
that It would be a good improvement
to build a good macadam street.
While this is good material for
road and Is the cheapest that can be
got, we would not want to go on rec.
ord as advising its use for n street
that has the good improvements on
II that Columbia, Liberty, Washing.
ton ana Jefferson streets have, in
the limits of the Improvement
Respectful submitted.
"CHAS. A. SHEPARD"
Estimates, Brick and Telford, or Ma.
cadam.
East Of the East Line of Washington
street to Main street:
Total cost: Telford Tor Macadaml,
S509S5O; Brick, sl0,3G1.00.
Court House Square:
Total cost: Telford Tor Macadam).
Dat
West of the West Line OF Jefferson
Street to City Limits:
Total cost: Telford Tor Macadam),
$l4,l97O0; Brick, $25,072.60.
In addition TO this there will be for
sewers for drainage purposes about
100000.
This Will make the cost to the In.
diydual property owner ABOUT as
follows
II he lives on the street 3S feet
wide and no car track. $4.65 per front
foot 0ineaD
II he lives on the street % feet
wide and the car track, $3.50 per
front foot tineaD.
We, the Mayor and Board of Al
dermen, have published this Informal
ton, which We have secured In re-
Spouse to petition. in order that all
persons interested might become con.
versant with the facts in general
way and be able to pass on the mat.
ter with some intelligence and to the
best of their judgment. We would
like for you to be in attendance at
the meeting of the Board to he held
on next Tuesday evening, June 18th.
in the City Hall over the Fischer
Mere. Co.'S store. At this time the
Board will try to furnish you any
further information that you may de-.
sire and the style of improvement to
be made will be selected and later
advertised as the law provides.
Respectfully submitted.
G. NJ WILSON, Mayor.