Arizona republican., 1910-11-26
CENTRAL AYE. COMPROMISE Long Step In That DIrec-
 lion Is Taken
 MAY BE COMPLETED TODAY The Proposed Arrangement Calls for Transfer of Work to South End Not Later Than Jan. 15---Plan to Raise More Funds.
MAY BE COMPLETED TODAY

That compromise will today be ef- fectcd whereby work upon the Central avenue boulevard will be transferred
 from the north to the south end not
 later than January 15 seemed probable
 at the close of the meeting of the trustees held yesterday.
 Yesterdays meeting was the third since the taxpayers in the southern portion of the special road district met in the Osborn school house Sat
 urday evening and passed d resolution demanding that the trustees leave off the work of boulevarding at the north end, next to the Arizona canal, and begin at the Mcdowell road, on the south end. and work northward. At the first meeting nothing was sc- complished Trustee Dwight B. Heard | made motion that the demand be complied with, but there was no sec ond The trustees met again Wednes- day and Major F.. M. Lamson intimat- ! cd that he would be willing to enter | into some sort of an agreement to | raise S6 an acre on all lands north
 of the Grand canal. as had been sug- gested by MT. Heard and others, pro- vided that the money all be spent
 in that part of the district.
 This was d step toward an under
 standing and when the board met yesterday rapid progress was made While nothing final was accomplished
 d compromise can be said to have
 been practically effected.
 At the request of Major Lamson, | Mr. Heard drew up resolution along | the lines Trustees Lamson and Wool
 sey had intimated they might be will | ing to accept. The resolution was not | formally presented yesterday, but was thoroughly discussed. Following is its text:
 Resolved that no further eXpendi-
 ture of the funds now in the hands of
 this board shall be made in road con- struction from the north end of the | Centrai avenue boulevard except that
 amount necessary to open for traffic
 the north two and five-eighths miles
 of said boulevard. but that a special | fund of S6 per acre he promptly raised by the cwners'of the 1,260 acres l lying north of the Grand Canal within | the road district This special fund l | the building of the road from the | north After the expenditure of this special fund work on the construction
 of the boulevard shall be commenced from the south end of the road district provided that in any event work at the | south end shall bc commenced not
 later than January 15, 1911, and con | tinued north to the full extent of | 4 N.r.a a
 ITO insure the completion of the
 entire boulevard as soon as work is started at the south end of the dis trict an organized effort shall at once be made to raise d fund of $4.Ooo from those living south of the Grand Canal within the road district. the city of Phoenix and it's citizens And to provide further additional funds two thirds of the money available from the maintenance tax for 1911, approximately S2.O0O. shall be used inI
 road construction.
 Resolved further. that this board
 urge upon the United States Indian
 Service the desirability of an ap- propriation of 5000 toward the com pletion of this boulevard in view of the fact that the government owns half mile of frontage on the boulevard now exempt from taxation. and that
 the Indian School traffic upon the road is exceptionally heavy.
 "Construction throughout the road l to consist of a central strip of oiled
 macadam highway IS feet wide. m accordance with the specifications of MT. Carl Sherwood. the engineer in
 charge. with such widths of oiled shoulders as MT. Sherwod may re-
 commend"
 After Wednesdays meeting MT.
 Heard asked Carl Sherwood. the United States highway engineer in charge of the boulcvarding operations
 for an estimate of the cost of complet- ing the road Mir. Sherwoods estimate
 follows:
 Cost of constructing 12s miles oi road from the south end of Orange Wood to the Grand Canal. at s6,O00 per mile. consisting of Is feet oil
 macadam roadway. ss.25e.
 Cost of constructing % of mile of road. from the Grand Canal to the
 Indian School road. consisting of lo- foot oil macadam roadway. including 6foot shoulders on each side. figured at S7.2OO per mile, $500.
 Cost of constructing the mile of road from the Indian School road to the w F.. Thomas corner, 16-foot road at S6.S0O. S-foot shoulders on each side. s975. s7,775.
 Cost of constructing road from w l F. Thomas corner to Mcdowell road. l 1sfoot macadam,, s7,30O, 1O-foot shoulders. S1.225. total cost per mile. $S.525.
 Cost of constructing quarter mile | so,,th of Mcdowell road. now within | cit,. limits. 16-foot macadam. 10-fOOt | shoulders. cost per mile. SS.725. $2.1Sl. |
 ..TotaI estimated cost to complete the Central avenue boulevard in ac- cordance with the recommendations | of MT. Sherwood. engineer. s3k231."
 The plan for raising additional funds