Arizona republican., 1908-09-16
SPECIAL MEETING
 OF CITY COUNCIL
A Further Discussion of Cement Walk Sewer Pipe, CulVerts.

A special meeting of the city council | was held Monday evening, the purpose | of continuing the discussion of the matter of cement walks along Mill ! avenue that was taken up at the last regular meeting of the body.
 At that time it was tentatively de- | cided to issue an order instructing the property owners to proceed with the work. but the order was withheld a time in order that the street commit tee might have an opportunity to sound the property owners that would be effected. The committee reported at Monday evenings meeting that so far as it had been able to ascertain. there was a feeling on the part of the
 property owners that to ask them to construct a twelve foot walk was ask ing a good deal. Cement walks are rather expensive in the country and. they felt that a walk a few feet mar rCWer would answer the purpose equally as we'll The council devoted to this phase of the question some little time and finally decided that a six foot walk instead of a twelve foot one would do. Then came the question as to whether this walk should go down the center of the twelve foot one. leaving ground on each side or whether it should go flush with the curb. This latter plan was finally decided upon. Building cement walks brings more than one question to the front as the council discovered. In order that these walks when built shall not resemblei
 aset of steps, it is necessary to estab- fish a uniform grade. The marshall was instructed to confer with City En- gineer A. O. Turney of Phoenix relative to establishing a grade on both sides of the street, taking as the point from which to start, the walk of the Laird and Dimes building.
 It was suggested by one member of the council that that body make ar engagements with some one contractor to do all the work the city might offer him in this line at a certain figure but the matter was not decided upon for the reason that the city attorney sug- gested that the city could probably save itself lot of trouble by keeping out of the matter entirely. leaving the building of the different pieces of walk to the property owners. They could Il8Qrc Wlln as many ullleTtuL Mdlh builders as they might choose. Sev- eraI different bids were submitted by different contractors ranging in price from 1215 cents per square foot to 13l2 cents per square foot. the best grade of cement to be used in each case.
 No definite action was taken in the matter at all, as it will be held up pending the establishment of a suit able grade from which to work.
 While in session the council further discussed the matter of securing a quantity of sewer pipe with which to replace the wood culverts now in use. The clerk had obtained a few figures which showed that the city could lay this pipe 6own here in the required sizes practically as cheap as it could purchase lumber, buying the pipe in car load lots. Pending further inves- tigation, nothing was done in this mat ter but it is probable that a special meeting will be called in the near fu ture for the purpose of ordering a car load of the pipe for one or two of the culverts need repairs at once and it is not proposed to spend any more money on lumber.