El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-11
BIDS On CLINT
FAbENS ROAD
OPENED
Valley Residents Protest
Against Grading Unless
Macadam Is Used.

was accepted, the three bids presented
being held over until o'clock this aft
| ernoon in order that the court might de-
| eide which was the successful bidder.
| The Petrolithic and Construction com
pany bid S7275, Richard Caples s6582-5O
and N. c. Mckinney $500. However,
/ Mckinney Offered to give l percent off
on the net amount paid him for the
| grading of the road
County engineer. Meadows held that
| this was a conditional bid and while Nc
| Kinney offered to do the work cheaper,
| there were no conditions asked for in
! the call for bids, so he proposed that the
commissioners take the matter up and
they decided to wait until 2 o'clock to
/ decide.
! There was considerable discussion re-
! garding the grading of this road, several
/ valley land owners taking part and some
/ llolding it would be inadvisable to grade
the road and then allow it TO stand be-
! fore macadamizing it. This matter was
! passed until this afternoon.
Roads Improved.
Surveyor Eubank reported he had re-
! f1oored the bridges on the road to the
country club and had fixei up the bad
places in the road, 500 being appro-
priated to meet this expense
Judge Eylar reported $500 in the
u.
r. f. Burgess said: ''The position
taken by majority of the people is that
complete road should be finished as
far as the funds will permit. The val
ley Is narrowing In considerably about
Nnile this side of Fabens, and it would
seem to us best to complete it as far as
possible.
There are two objections TO grading
1t and not surfaeing it because it would
make no better road and it would soon
be torn up. 1t seems 20 me CT no great
benefit to grade it alone. With the avail
able funds it would be possible To build
a finished road six miles, benefiting the
people as far down as possible"
Freudenthal's Idea.
Commissioner Prudential remarked:
The road the commissioners intended
to build would be almost as good as a
macadam road"
K f. Burgess replied: 1T seems to
me that everywhere an unsurfaced road
lis very unsatisfactory, particularly for
the use of automobiles, as they tear I'D
an unsurfaeei load
Virtually all the people at Quadrilla
will be served" Judge Eylar stated
The proposition is there Is not enough
money to build a completed road to
Fabens"
To this statement Mr.. Burgess replied:
When you get to within a mile of Fa- !
bens YOU reach practically as many peo-
pie as going to Fabens. The valley rail /
road franchise Onlv calls for a Ire TO |!
within mile Of FabenS"
Protest at Grading
Frank Spence said he would rather /
have the road left as it is than have it /
torn up
J. j. Schairer said: The minute YOU /
put a plOw or scraDer into this soil Won
destroy your foundation. Don't grade /
that road unless you can macadamize IL /
You might as well throw your money l
into the Rio Grande as to grade it and i
not maeadamize it for year or So"
W. B. Latta said: III they grade it I
and don't r.acadamize it fO; several /
months they cannot use it this wear. I !
expect to spend a good MANY thousand
dollars there and am simply waiting for
this
X. b. Meadows thought it would be
well to grade it first and then in few
months put down the rock work. Il
agree with Mr.. Schairer that we should
not tear up that dirt except when abso-
lutely necessary
Mr.. Schairer said: "If you want to
grade it, wait until We get our first
crop Of hay off first"
Extravagant Expenditure.
I
spent on the Ysleta Clint
road to build the Clint San Elizar:o road.
One man wanted all of his fence posts
cut off at the same height. | told the
boy to ask him if he didn't want us to
put flag on each Dost.''
Commissioner Smith said: II believe
we ought to grade the road and let it
settle and then macadamize it as far as
possible"
Prudential said: we will not grade
the road and then let it go. Il will
positively be an asphalt -nracadam road"
j. j. Schairer asked for the macadam-
izing of a cross read from the T. p.
crossing at Clint to the store OF VI. c.
Nothing was done with this.
Roads Expensive
Judge Eylar said: Eve are short on
money and the roads are costing more
than the estimates. | expect the vs.
leta and Anthony roads VIII run $4,000
over the estimates, as we are making
much better roads than contemplated.
Prudential said: 1--WE will have s4O.-
900 or $4,000 by Feb 1, 1911, for this
Eylar: 81 figure we now have about
$50, 900 in the road and bridge fund.
The original intention was to build a :
first class road from Anthony to Fa- :
bens.' !
Smith: "All we need is s1,0OO,00O to !
build all the roads we need"
This matter went over to 2 o'clock.
Other Matters.
VIM. Moon, of SOcorrO. asked for a
road in Socorro. claiming the old road s
paralleling the county road is useless. Z
This was referred to county commission I
,r Perez and engineer Meadows.
A certificate of character was granted
NJ. A. Dolan in order that he might
AXE the examinations for admission to T
he bar at Galveston today
New District School.
Residents of La Valley asked for the o
establishment OF a school there, creating
new district from Sierra Blanca. Ac-
ion was deferred until commissioners
love is present at a meeting of the
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