The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-15

more have passed council or are now
before that body. For asphalt prices
nave ranged from $3.50 TO $3.50. ana
TOT bitulithic around se.75. In Don-
jacksonville 10000 yards of bituIithic
We're laid. Shreveport finished nm its
oltulithic contracts of 1906. and had
10000 yards of asphalt 10 Law. Lake
CHARLES contracted for 10000 wards or
brick at Sos
IN spite OF the difficulty of assessing
aouttng property for street imnrove,
ments on account of the Homestead
law, texas has had a marked boom
IN improvements. Brick and hitulithio
nave been the materials used M tho
PRACTICAL exclusion of all others ana
OF the 100000 yards of having laid
and contracted for in that state dur.
ing the year, 100000 square wards
have been brick and nearly a0n o0o
yards bitulithic. The brick has been
laid in Galveston, Houstin, Austin.
Paris, Gainesville and Greenyflle
with little in Dallas. The bitulithic
paving has been contracted for by FL
Paso TO the extent of $4,000 wards
and Dallas has undertaken to Law over
1900 yards. Bitulithic paving has
brought around S235 a square ward.
and brick has ranged from 81 to s225
square yard. A large amount Z
street work will be done AL over the
Lone Star State this year
Down in Georgia, Atlanta has resur-
faced Peachtree street with asphalt
getting the material at the bargain
price of S1.24 a square yard, with IOt
year guarantee. Several blocks OF
new asphalt was also laid, and in the
West End 10000 yards of bitulithid
were laid. In Savannah the city
bought and laid with its own labor a.
fair amount of brick. Columbus COM
tracted for $4,000 yards of bitulithio
and $4,000 yards of brick. Waycross
and Townsville both laid small con-
tracts of brick, the former on sand
foundation. LaGrange and Albany put
in few blocks of brick, about $4,000
yards in all.
In Florida, Jacksonville awarded a
contract for 10 miles of brick paving,
laid on sand. This was secured at
prices ranging from S1.61 to S1-65 a
square yard. Tampa AID West Tampa
both laid brick in the same fashion,
and the coming year Will see Live
Oak. Orlando and Pensacola with con-
siderable paving to do.
Spartanburg is the only city in
South Carolina that invested any con-
siderable amount in paving last year.
An original contract Ior 10000 yards
Of bitulithic has been recently run up
TO 10000 yards, and will be 100000
Yards before work is completed
Ireenville have completed 1905 brick
contracts.
In North Carolina Asheville this
rear. as for the past three, has laid
bituIithic, the total
amount laid and contracted for in
906 amounting to a little over 100,-
100 yards. Salisbury has contracted
or $4,000 yards of bitulithic.
Kentucky has reported very httla
one in Louisville, where fair-siZed
sphalt contract was Turned into
.ranite block after the award was
made. Paducah has put in $4,000
ards of bitulithic and has laid and
ontracted for $4,000 yards of brick.
lexington is one of the Southern
tiles to put down wood blocks. and
'ovington has spent a little in street
Taken as a whole, Southern cities,
Thether large or small, have taken
bought in the award of street paving
ontracts, and have demanded the
est materials and the best construc-
on Climatic conditions are differ
ut, of course. in the Gulf States from
Dnditions North or West, and the
st on materials is much more severe
4 account of the protracted heat and
moisture. And the South
as learned that, in this matter as
ell as others, the best is in the end