Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-21
HOW STREETS OF CITY ARE
 ID BE BUILT
Street Commissioner McCul- tough Tells of His Pans for BiSbee - Route of Tomb- Stone Canyon Road

1 \ representative Of the Review re- gently made a trl, over the city with ! r. ]. NeCuiiough, street commissioner. | and had pointed out to him most of | the many improvements which will be made with the S125.e00 recently voted by the citizens for the improvement of Hue streets Hoe are some figures | connection with the work which will be of interest.
 l The total Co be expended is Sl25,00e. f Esumated tino of completion, Oue year.
 \ time, 1000.
 | Total average number employed
 daily. estimated for the year. 150.
 Total amount to be paid out for
 wages. SG0 000-
 Average month paid out in
 wages, 5000.
 These figures mean much to the business men of the city and to the idle men of the camp. An average of i50 men working steadily for a year,
 with most of the earnings to be spent
 for supplies and neceszaries of life, wH help some. Tlis. too. is scayil.s l. ncthing of si25,O which will be spent for an improved fire system, half of which will go for wages, the | subway project, now in course Of construction, and which will cost in the neighborhood of s55. 900. half of which viii go for wages, the comple- ton of the forty foot road up Tomb stone canyon. work on which has al ready been resumed and win be con tinued until ps completion at the close of the year.
 Two years ago what is known as Naco road was a narrow trail, with q i, grade in some places of fourteen per cent. and on it were only two places where teams could pass each other. II At present, it is forty feet in the clear. is thoroughly graded, held JtD by con crete walls. and an ideal roadway clear to Lowell. Further improve ment is planned in this direction by completing the retaining wall where it has a gap in it at Jones Hill, and building a road on that hill that vii! give it's residents easy access to Naco road
 The new concrete mixer, ordered by the city at the suggestion of the street commissioner, is now buey grinding out cement for the building Of what will be known as o. K. street, and which has been known as 0. K. trail. This is a project which has been dis cussed ever since the founding of the city. and one which it has been rec ogniZed at all times, was badly need ed This road VII cost the city in the neighborhOod of S3S0O0. It will run from the front of the Review office to a point high up on the road of Young blood Hill, half mile distant. Among its other advantages 1t will enable the residents in that part Of the city 70 | reach the business section during the rainy season, when Brewery Gulch Is a roar ng torrent The retaining wall | necessary to hold this road along side the hill will vary in height from eighteen to twenty-four feet. Men are at work on different sections now. At the Hickie place, near the lumber yard in Brewery Gulch it is necessary to carry the rocks used in the fill for the concrete wall up flight of stairs, while the sand is carried on the backs of burros. Such are some of the diff
 culties encountered by the street su- periutendent in his task.
 Timbey avenue will be widened, and a concrete wal will hold 1t from Opera Drive to Hunt avenue. Clawson ave m" will be held by a retaining wall | gt tL1 JastVu place This road was swept by the flood last summeI 70 such an extent that repairs alone cost the city $500 The water way up How ell avenue will be separated from the I avenue by a retaining wall. All along the high road. from w. H. Brophys z | residence to the end of the road, there will be retaining wall, while the I surface will be leyeled and wideued sufficiently 10 allow teams to pass I This one retaining wall will be 2,000 feet in length. Maxfeld avenue will be extended. widened and held by I concrete walls, past the Hoy resi- I dence 10 Castle rock. with a grade oi } seven per cent This will be one of ! the most attractive drives in the samp as F commands a view of the valley
 out bcyond tn lower end oi Tomb
 stone Canyon.
 Route of Tombstone Canyon Road
 Through the courtesy of McCul tough sne Rcycv' is able yG give the
 csact route which will be taken by the
 forty foot road C-l it's extension up the canyon. The preliminary work
 has already begun on this where it
 was left of last July, and will be con,
 tinued until the road is completed to
 the city limits. The street commis
 siOner says that this will be done by
 a date not later than the last of the | present year, and that 1t may be com pleted in from thirty to sixty days less than that
 All along the route to be taken by
 the road. the houses are being set back where necessary. and shade I trees taken up and reset. in order to give the right of way to the road. s Mccullough says there will be noth- ing to prevent the street cars going as far up the canyon as the Lincoln school house within six months. The route of the road will be as follows: Beginning at Biddy Doyle's. the s present terminus of the road. the re- \ taining walls confning the waterway and providing the roadway, will run through the Higgins ground on the south side of the canyon, through J. 5 II. Jacks lumber yard. continue on the present roadway to a point east Of the Warren laundry; thence |, around the south side of the creek and I connect with the present roadway | again by the Metz soda works: thea