Arizona republican., 1910-12-04
Paving Discussed By Citi.
 zens of Phoenix
THE QUESTION OF SEWERS
Councilman Hackett An nounces That It Will Be Put Up to People Kib- bey, Marks and Heard the Principal Speakers.

Paving was the principal subject un-
 the season of the City club. held last evening in the K. of P. hall. over | seventy-five members were present and
 much enthusiasm was displayed. Some excellent ideas were advanced and one ] or two important announcements were made.
 Justice Edward Kent presided and
 himself made a few preliminary re- marks anent the club and the power for good that it possesses. Three speakers had been requested to prepare addresses, and former Governor Joseph H. Kibbey was the first to De called upon.
 Governor Kibbey touched upon the need of paved streets, expressing an opinion that it will not be long before Phoenix has a system of pavements of which any city might we'll be proud. A considerable portion of his remarks was to the effect that Phoenix should have social club with its own building The Yavapai club at Prescott and Old Pueblo club at Tucson he referred to as illustrations of what such an organi- Zation can do for a community. MT. Marks touched upon a wide va riety of subjects. First he took up the city finances. declaring that the tax payers should know more about how their money is spent and advocating the employment of a city comptroller Regarding the question of irrigation, he declared that investigations made by him showed that the city received $3, 900 a year for water from ditches and spent s14.OOO for maintenance of the system. MT. Marks declared that the new city pump would furnish enough water for the irrigation of lots and that it should be used for this purpose as soon as it is in working or der. making it possible to immediately eliminate the ditches.
 Other subjects which he discussed at some length were necessity for imme- diate action looking to the removal of overhead wires, street crossings and corners more fire fighting apparatus sale or lease of the city hall block and the need of public parks. In conclusion he urged that the club be made some thing more than a body for discussion He wanted it to take action on uues- AlOilS Ol CIVIC llttItSl anu ltIlh us dS- sistance to the city council in solving problems that continually confront that body
 Probable the most interesting DOT
 tion of Mir. Heards remarks was a
 brief forecast of the report of the citi- zens' paving committee. appointed by
 the city council, which will report next
 Monday evening. The figures he gave were so low that they surprised Mir. | Heard's hearers.
 In the first place, according to MT. Heard. the committee had found that it would cost less to pave than was popu- | larly supposed. At Monday nights
 meeting of the council the committee
 would prevent figures showing what it cost other cities to pave. To pave the business section of Phoenix will cost
 $2.50 a square yard, and the street
 railway company, on the streets where
 it has lines, will pay its proportion in 1 accordance with the terms of its fran 1 chise. This means that the company will pave between its tracks and two feet on each side. On Washington | street a third of the cost will be borne