Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-01-21
SUBWAY NOW
IN HANDS OF
TAXPAYERS
Movement To Make New Per-
manent Structure Progress
ing Rapidly-WiII Undoubt-
eddy Be Successful.

1t is probable that within the next
few weeks the plan of making the
present subway permanent struc-
ture, which will protect the property
in the heart of the city from damage
by food will be adopted on the basis
Of the citys paying a small amount
of the cost, and the abutting property
owners the balance. At the present
time the city engineer in computing
the pro rata of each property owner
of abutting property, and within a few
days a committee from the council
will take the matter up, and dispose
of it.
After almost year, during which
time the proposition was talked or
internationally, plans have been sub
mitted to the city by the engineer,
who acted in conjunction with the
engineers OF the Copper Queen Com
pany. In case the proposition is ac-
cepted the mining company will have
to pay about half of the cost of con-
struction.
The plans as submitted call for a
waterway of concrete on both sides
and the bottom and a top of heavy
wooden timbers which have been
treated with ereosote. The subway
will be exactly the same length as at
present.
The engineers estimate that to car
ry out the plans it will require an
expenditure of $4,000.
In order to expedite matters the
council has Informally suggested the
plan of the city's paying 20 per cent
of the cost of construction, leaving
the remainder to be divided up as
follows: 40 per cent to be paid by
the property owners on the south side
of the subway; 25 per cent by those
on the north SIDE. and Is per cent
by the property owners on the south
side OF Main street.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of Attorney. McNeish and City
Attorney George H. Neale, the former
to determine the proportinate share
of expense for each property owner,
and the latter to draw the requisite
deed and agreement.
As soon as they report, commit
tee of the council will call on the
various property owners and take the
matter up with them personally.
DR.. Caven, VINO happens to be a
property owner on the south side of
Main street, as well as mayor Of the
city, was seen last evening by Re-
view representative and asked what
he thought of the proposition. In re-
ply, he said:
81 think that the carrying out Of the
plans submitted within the shortest
90 ~ IN, IN
be a forward step in tae history OF
the district, but will be an economi-
cal measure. do not own any prop
erty. which abuts directly upon the
subway, but do own some on the
south side of Main street, and will be
glad to pay my pro rata of the ex-
pense, because we will benefit as well
as those who own ground that is con-
tiguous to the waterway.
"As an official of the city, / feel
that the present condition of the sub
way is a disgrace. We have made
rapid strides along the path of pro
gress during the last few years, but
the mere fact of our having right in
the heart OF the city a filthy highway
like this is at present, indicates that
we have not We finished our task.
so far as the city at large is con-
cerned, the payment of 20 per cent
of the cost will not be felt, and the
benefits to be derived will be innum-
cradle, not the least of which will be
the removal of what now believe is
a source of disease
Il am heartily in favor OF the prop
osition and will endorse it not only
as an official of the city, but as a
taxpayer and citizen"