The San Francisco call., 1910-01-08
ARMY STREET WILL
BE BITUMINlztD
Petition for Permit Is First Step
Toward Extensive Improve
ments in Section

The hrst step toward the improve
ment of Army street in the campaign
to make it the chief artery between
shore of the bay of San Francisco was
taken this week when property owners
between York street and San Bruno
avenue filed a petition with the board
of public works asking for a permit
to have the street bituminized be-
tween these two points. The Mission
promotion association will now pro-
ceed in its efforts to have Army street
improved west of York street and
eventually widened to 100 feet.
The paving of the blocks between
York street and San Bruno avenue
viii be done with bitumen and not
with asphalt blocks on account of the
excessive cost of the latter kind of
paving. The board Of public works
is now considering the advisability
of constructing a basalt pavement
along the whole length of Army street,
thus rendering it well fitted for heavy
traffic, even though the municipality
will be compelled to pay the difference
between the cost of bitumen and basalt
pavement.
NEW POLICE STATION
With the construction of the branch
Mission police station at San Jose and
Ocean avenues, Army street will be-
come more important traffic thor
oughfare, since the lngleside station
under command of Captain Tobin Will
include the large territory betwe
Army street and the San Mateo county
line.
Many property owners in Army street
between Mission street and San Bruno
avenue have signifed their willing
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the street to loo feet, the widening to
be made on the southerly line of the
street between San Bruno avenue and
Kentucky street and in the northerly
line of the street between San Bruno
avenue and Mission street
The Mission Promotion associa tion
has obtained an appropriation of $780,
600, by which the board of public
works will be enabled to begin the
construction of the branch sewer COM
mencing at Silver avenue and running
under the Mission viaduct as far as
Springdale avenue. simultaneously
with the work of sewer construction
the work of building the Mission via
duct will be started with the $65,000
appropriation now at the disposal of
the board of public works.
WILL CONSTRUCT VIADUCT
The United Railroads company is
engaged in doing its share of the work,
and when finished Will have spent
100000 in making fills and constlSuct-
ing the approaches TO the main struc-
ture. One-half of the viaduct will be
constructed at first and the construc-
tion of the other half begun as soon
as the United Railroads company makes
it's appropriation of $4,000, which is a
part of the joint contract between
the city and the United Railroads
company.
In order that the immediate improve
ment of Fifteenth avenue south may
be carried out the board of public
works is now computing the assessed
valuation of the property in Fifteenth
avenue between San Bruno and Rail-
road avenues. Supplementing its of
fer that the city appropriate dollar
for dollar with the property owners
to improve Fifteenth avenue, the board
of public works viii endeavor to create
an assessment district and have the
assessed valuation of the property
spent in improving the thoroughfare.
With the advance of railroad con-
struction in the eastern Mission and
Potrero, Fifteenth avenue and it's trib-
utary, these thoroughfares have as
sumed added Importance, and the street
committee of the Mission Promotion
association is preparing an exhaustive
report concerning the advisability of
using portion of the state bond issue
for good roads in making passable
several important thoroughfares in the
Mission district