Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-05-01
Property Owners Talked
Matter Over.
MEETING WELL ATTENDED
City Attorney Clements Outlined
Proposed Improvement and
lK Manner of Paving.

Monday night ar the city hall by
Mayor Smith for an informal discus.
sion Of the proposed pavement of
Sixth street and intersections, was
we'll attended and intense interest
manifested throughout. The meet.
ing was called to order by the mayor
and City Attorney Clements opened
the discussion by briefly reviewing
the pavement project from the pro-
visional ordinance up to date. He
gave concise, yet lucid outline of
the work and explained the Bancroft
bonding act and the limit OF the
city councils action In the matter
under its present charter.
The next speaker was Ex.Judge ].
N. Chiles, who. though not essen
italy opposed to the pavement, was
under somewhat of misapprehen-
sion as to the general plan. He was
opposed to the widening of the side
walk in the proposed paved district
and presented remonstrance against
this feature Of the new improvement.
Many of the signers Of the petit ton,
however, we're not within the paving
district and it appeared that number
Of the signers were under the impress
ion that the widening of sidewalks as
suggested was to be extended outside
Of the paved district, while such Is
not the case.
City Engineer Hobson. from his
Preliminary survey gave the estimated
cost of the pavement, if bitulithic was
used, to be, approximately &c. 80 per
front foot for half the width of the
street. Relative to the grades and
drainage he stated that ample drain
age might be affected by running the
water from Sixth street to Seventh on
the east and to Fifth on the west.
R. L. Coe, who recently returned
from trip east, while in favor of
Substantial and permanent work in
the matter of pavement, favored mac.
adam as against bitulithic on ac-
count of the relatively lower cost. and
cited his observations while in the
east Objections to macadam were
raised by others ON account of the
rough surface aud difficulty in keep
ing it free from ice without injury to
the pavement.
Erop, fha ramorLo ~ Councilman 10.
burn it was CLEANED that, along with
the pavement of Sixth street the
council has under Consideration the
proposition OF lesseDing the width Of
sidewalks on residence streets by ex-
tending the curb line farther into
the street and thus giving room for u
row of trees along the curb line just
outside the walks. This is the plan
recently adopted in other cities which
has added much to the beauty Of the
towns and should especially appeal
to tile people of Grants Pass at this
time.
All in all Monday nights meeting.
even though informal, gave new i'm
petos to civic improvement, aud par
ticularly to the new paving proposi
tion, in that those who were IN at.
tendance at the meeting receiS ed new
information and were set aright on
various points.
The large attendance Of Monday
nights meeting argues much for civic
Improvement in Granst Pass within
the next l2 months, and when the
pavement is down, which, in al
probability will be the case by Sep
tember If not before, Grants Pass viii
have sanding advertisement which
will attract the attention and impress
more people than twice the amount o.
money spent in ans other way.