The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-12-14
ACCEPT NACHES
AVENUE PAVING
Council Votes to Pay for Big As
phalt Job-City Engineer
Reports Favorably.
WILL HOLD AN ADJOURNED
SESSION THIS EVENING
Unfinished Business Will Come
up for Consideration in Coun-
ell Chamber Tonight-South
Naches People Want Paving.

The acceptance of public improve.
| ment work to the amount of more
than s132,000.00, a decision to dis.
charge on January list, all the present
employees connected with the city
scavanger department.; the adoption
of plans and profiles for the paving
of the Southwest Improvement dis
trict at an estimated cost of SIS, 900
and the adoption of a petition to pave
south Naches avenue comprised the
bulk of the business transacted by
the council last evening. On accoun,
of the accumulation of business, caus-
ed by the large amount of time de-
voted to consideration of the North
Coast franchise in past meetings, the
council voted to hold adjourned ses-
sion this evening at 1880 O'Clock.
Accept Naches Job.
On report of the street and ditch
committee the council voted to ac-
cept the Naches avenue paving job and
warrant in the amount of $124,-
204.16 was ordered drawn in favor
of the Independent Asphalt company
The reading of the report asking that
the work be accepted brought out a
long discussion, Councilman Shaw en-
tering the first protest.
He declared the work savored in
places of being unsatisfactory and
gave his opinion that council should
delay the matter of acceptance until
further examination of the entire job
could be made. City Engineer Doo-
little however, quickly set at rest the
fears of the entire council when he
declared his official tests of the paw
ing showed the job to be one of the
best he had ever seen and fully up
to the requirement of high grade as
phalt work. Following the city en-
gineer's report, the work was unani-
mously accepted.
Other work accepted is as follows:
Grading Garfield avenue, w. w. Petit
john, s4,204.30; sewer to serve blocks
sos, 800, $40. Bush company, So
357.50; cement walk, Victoria addi-
ton, Bruen and Powell, $1,S94.20.
More Paving for Naches.
Signed by the majority of south
Naches avenue property owners, pc
tition asking that all that part of
the street south of Yakima avenue
now unpaved, be paved with asphalt in
the spring, was accepted and resolu-
lions to proceed were ordered drawn
by the city attorney. Plans and speci-
ficatiOns were ordered submitted by
the engineer in the next meeting. A
duplicate disposition Of the Naches
petition, was made of a petition of
Mob Hill property owners who seek
the grading of Champaign street con-
;vIv,o fo,, s%c
A petition for paving of north Second
street from E to H streets was grant
ed. This job will be included in the
proposed district surrounding the work
mentioned in the petition.
A petition of the contractors laying
the cement sidewalk on west Yakima
avenue, for an extension of time for
the reason that it is now too cold to
insure good work, was granted.
PrOfiles Adopted.
Resolutions adopting plans and spe-
cificatiOns for the paving Of the South
west Improvement district, which in
cludes Pleasant and Eleventh avenues,
was adopted as was a similar docu-
ment looking to the construction of a
wooden sidewalk along north Fourth
street to the city limits. A plat for
the construction of a subsewer in
block so, at an estimated cost of $500,
was also adopted.
One the recommendation Of City
Health officer Nywening, the council
voted to discharge all employees of
the scavanger department at the end
of the present month. This was made
necessary by reason of the recent Ii
cense granted to the Tacoma scav-
angers who will contract the work
after that date.
An ordinance appropriating $500
for charity, to be distributed through
the Salvation army, was passed.
In the meeting this evening, several
important matters, including the pro-
posed police department salary raises,
the west side drain and the st. Paul
and Tacoma Lumber company's fran
chise, will come up for hearing.