The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1907-04-20
TO PUSH BACH THE "wEDoE."
Southern Pacific Offers Strip of Land
to Enable NO9aIeS to widen
Morley Avenue.

Tuesday night the Board of Direc-
tors of the Board of Trade discussed
the proposition of widening Morley
avenue. The Town improvement
committee reported to the Board the
proposition of Superintendent w. A.
McGovern, of the Tucson division of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, to the effect that the company
will give the use of its land now used
as track bed, in the rear of the
Morley avenue "wedge," to the owners
of the lots and buildings comprising
the "wedge," if the property owners
will move the buildings back, thereby
widening Morley avenue some ten or
twelve feet.
The meeting of the Board of Trade
directors was short one and with
adjournment the directors all repaired
to the town council room, where the
council was in session, the latter hav-
ing invited the Board of Trade
Directors to Joint discussion of the
subject.
At the council room there was great
enthusiasm shown and the general
opinion seemed to be that the PROPOSE
ton of the railroad company, besides
being very generous one, has solved
a problem that has vexed the brains of
property owners for many years past.
Some of the owners of the property
involved had been seen during the day
by members of the town council and
Directors of the Board of Trade, and
nearly everyone appeared to favor the
proposition of moving the buildings
back on to the land to be donated by
the railroad company.
Most of the buildings are old above
structures, there being but one two
story brick building on tie "wedge."
that occupied by Mr. Ramon Vasqnez.
Plans had already been formulated for
the removal of some Of the old adobes,
and the construction of stone buildings
On the lots covered by them. One of
the largest buildings on the "wedge,"
the Bojorquez building, now occupied
by the Monte Carlo saloon and
restaurant, is to be torn down in the
near future and two story stone
structure erected on the corner. Some
of the other buildings are ramshackle
affairs that should be torn down,
anyway, and the construction of more
presentable buildings. on street wide
enough to present a good business ap
pearance. will more than repay the
owners the expense of making the
change.
The only building of any particular
value that need be moved back is the
Vasquez building. The general
opinion seems to be that all the others
should be torn down and better
structures erected further back on the
property SO generously donated by the
railroad company.
Mayor John T.. Brickwood. in adj
dressing the joint meeting of the
Council and directors of the Board of
Trade, said:
"For years l have looked upon that
wedge as sonnet hing that sooner or
later would have to come out. L
have always thought that the longer
it stood there the more troublesome
and expensive would be the task of
removing it. 1 have even thought
that we might have to wait till there
should be established in business in
Nogales men with sufficient capital to
buy the property and remove the
buildings. The town is certainly not
in condition to do it. But there we
have chance to remedy the fault
ourselves, in a way that we did not
expect We have a chance to widen
Morley avenue and make good bust
ness street of it, with very little
trouble and expense. 1 think the
railroad company has acted very gen
erously in making the offer and l
think everyone should be willing to
take advantage of the offer and act
quickly in the matter
The street committee of the town
council and the town improvement
committee of the Board of Trade were
instructed to work together on the
matter, to see all the property owners
and collect all the information possible
preliminary to taken further action
in the matter.
Wednesday night the street com
mittee of the town council and the
town improvement committee of the
Board of Trade met at the Board Of
Trade headquarters to devise means oil
bringing about an agreement with the
"wedge" property owners on the pro-
position of moving back onto the lano
offered by the railroad company. The
following gentlemen were present al
the meeting: Council Com mittee-
Messrs. A l. Peck, A. H. Doherty
F. j. Duffy and w. A. OConnor
Board of Trade Committee-Messrs