The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-03-26
1ST Street
PAVING
Brick for Beginning Of Polk
Street Improvement are
Being Laid
(From Fridays Daily)

(From Fridays Daily.)
This afternoon selgneur G. Gross
will begin laying brick for the first
real pavement ever put down in
Amarillo. Brick for the pavement
was ordered several weeks ago from
the Yoke company at Coffeyville,
Kan, and the concrete foundation
has been ready for the brick for
nearly month.
Now the contractors will lay and
lamp down two-inch layer OF fine
sand on this foundation, and will
then lay brick cdgewise on the sand.
After the brick have been arranged
in this way, sand will be swept into
the intersices and then the whole
surface will be rolled down with the
big steam roller so that the brick will
Bet into the sand mattress and pre-
sent q smooth surface on top. Laid
In this way the brick from any part
OF the pavement can be easily re-
moved for making repairs or for
laying gas or other pipe under the
street.
$50 Per Square Yard.
In the part OF the block between
Fourth and Fifth where this paving
Is being done there are 1000 square
yards and the contract on this piece
OF paving makes the cost, including
The thirty-six nch concrete gutter
Sl.S0 per square yard. The crushed
stone method used on the west side
of the street cost $3.50 per square
yard.
AT the rate of $3.50 per square
yard, which would not be exceeded
and might be decreased on larger
contracts, il would cost the owner
OF each thirty foot lot on Polk street
1856 to pave his part Of the street.
Each lot owner on that basis would
pay for the paving nf twenty-slx
feet OF the street on his side of the
street. The street car company
would be responsible for eight feet
and the property owner on the other
side OF the street would pay for the
other side. 1t was suggested at one
time, each property owner paid for
Che paving of one-third of the street
In front front of his lot and the city
and the street car company pay for
the balance, the cost to the property
owners would be $40 for each lot.
In SOME cities, payment for paving
improvements is made easier by dl-
vtding the expense in five or more
annual installments which constitute
Aliens on the property. In such cases
thu city itself pays for all the paw
ang by issuing bonds for the purpose
and Is in due time reimbursed by the
property owners through the pay
meRt OF the annual installments.
To Pave Side Street.
TO make the paving on Polk street
satisfactory, according to the opinion
Of many who are familiar with the
conditions it will be necessary to pave
the side streets coming into Polk for
at least half block each way from
the main street. If these streets are
not paved, Polk street will become
in wet weather the dumping ground
for mud from the wheels of vehicles
which have been driven over muddy
streets and which shake off the ac-
cumulations when they reach the
paved street. Already several prop
erty owners on side streets have sig
nified their willingness to Join with
any movement looking toward the
pavement Of their streets. On Fourth
street, Amarillo National Bank and
]. A. Wayland offer to join with
property owners In paving Fourth
street from Polk for at least block
and half east to the end OF the
Wayland building on the corner of
Fourth and Taylor street, The ex-
pense OF paving the side street would
be much greater per lot on account
OF the greater street frontage. On
the basis Of payment by each prop
erty owner for half the street width
in front OF his lot, the cost would be
$3.50 for the 140 foot frontage of
each lot. On the basis OF payment
by the city for one-thrd and the
property owners on each side for the
other thirds, the cost per lot would
be $3.50.
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