Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-02-03
ROAD To COLLEGE
WILL Be PAVED
Chamber of Commerce Adopts Report
of Improvement Committee, Which
Provides for Paving Street
to the College,

At Tuesday evenings meeting of
the Pullman Chamber of Commerce
the report of the Improvement com
mittee, which recommended the
pavement of one street leading from
the city to the college campus was
adopted unanimously. The matter
had been under advisement for some
time but it was thought best to learn
the feeling of the property owners
along the proposed route in regard
to the improvement before any ac-
ton was taken. The sentiment of
the property owners proved to be SO
strong in favor of the paving that it
is certain that no trouble will be en-
countered in securing the sanction
of the necessary two-thirds of the
property owners to the establishment
of an improvement district along the
proposed route.
A petition asking the city council
to establish the improvement district
will be circulated among the affected
property owners by the Chamber of
Com merCe improvement committee.
AS soon as the petition secures the
signatures of two-thirds of the prop
erty owners, the council will estab-
fish the district and the work on the
pavement will start.
1t had already been decided to light
the route with electric lights, and as
soon as the pavement is completed
an automobile company will install
an automobile service from the city
to the college buildings. This will
make the route to the college one of
the best improved roads in the state
and will prove a valuable advertise
ment for the Artesian city, as well as
great convenience for Pullman peo-
pie.
The report of the improvement
committee, which was adopted by the
Chamber of Commerce, and which
explains in detail the plans for the
improvement, is as follows:
Pullman Chamber of Commerce.
We, your committee, to whom was
referred the matter of arrangement
for a paved street from the business
center of Pullman to the campus OF
the State College of Washington, beg
leave to report as follows. The com
mittee has had under consideration
several types of pavement and sew
eral possible routes for the proposed
paved street, and as a result of our
deliberations we make the following
recommendations:
1. We find that the most feasible
and desirable route for such a pave
ment would be as follows: begin
ming at the corner of Kamiaken and
PalCuse streets, east on Palouse tC
Star Route, north on Star Route tC
Montgomery, east on Montgomery tC
Opal, north on Opal to Monroe, east
on Monroe to Colorado, each on Colo
RADIO to Thatuna, east on Thatuna tC
the college campus. This route fol
lows the easiest grade from town to
the college and is the one now com
monty chosen by all heavy teaming
and automobiles.
2. We recommend as the ost
desirable type of paving the follow
ing plan: A macadamized surface
23 feet wide with IL inches fin
ished macadam with a 2 1-2-inch
surface bonded with oil with a raised
crown of 7 inches at the center of
the street with concrete curb and
gutter. inches thick, and inch
gutter surface on each side, making
the total width of the paved street
"a feet. This would leave parking
strip of 16 feet inches between the
curb and sidewalk on each side of the
street.
The city of Rosalia has recently
paved some of its streets on precisely
the same plan at a total expense OF
-SI65 clio per running foot Of the
abutting property, itemized as fol-
lows:
Curb and gutter complete, %74
per lineal foot.
Macadam, s.64 per square yard.