Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-19
BIG FORCE
BEGINS WORK
Prediction That Many Miles
Will be Laid
THIRTY BLOCKS SQUARE
Cheaper But Substantial
Material Soon to be Of
fered the Residence Sec
tons Manager Conway's
Glowing Prophesy Of the
City'S Future.

A huge traction engine, drawing Il
big plow. yesterday tore up Washing
ton street, between Third and Fifth
avenues. Hardly had the first big
burrows been turned when twenty
two teams and sixty men began haul
ing the dirt away.
The work marked the beginning Of
the street pavement era of Greater
Phoenix The present contract calls
for the paving of nineteen blocks, as
follows:
Washington street, between Fifth
street and Seventh avenue.
First Avenue. from Jefferson to
Adams.
Center street, from jefferson to
the north side OF Monroe.
First Street, from jefferson to
Adams
Adams, from Second street to Sec
ond Avenue.
An average of fifteen inches OF
earth must be removed from the
blocks between Third and Fifth
streets before the asphalt can be laid.
But the entire nineteen blocks will
require a cut of only seven inches.
Nine thousand cubic yards OF dirt
will be taken off, or $500 loads Of
two cubic yards each.
Manager Conway, Of the Barber
Asphalt Company, stated last evening
that the local pay roll contains sev-
enty-five names at present, but the
number will be doubled very soon.
The pay roll is now about $3.50 per
day When the force is doubled, as
promised nearly five thousand dol
lars a week will find its way into
the stores of Phoenix from the pave
mcnt Improvement.
The present contract for nineteen
blocks will be hurried as fast as men
and machinery car do the work. EX-
cept for the profits of the working
company, every dollar Of the i'm
provement will be expended right
back in Phoenix. Even the large
amount of concrete to be used In
the improvement is Of local manufac-
ture
The entire cost of the nineteen
block contract will be considerably
over 100000. but there is not the
slightest doubt that the increase in
the value of the frontage which must
meet the pavement tax, will be larg-
er in Phoenix than in other cities
where general pavement has been
accomplished. Statistics show that
in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Long
Beach, Riverside and Redlands
Southern California cities noted tn,
world over for their magnificent
streets, paving was followed by real
~ inn Of
per cent. II has become a truisn
that business follows the pavement.
The cost of paving in the district
already outlined will average about
eight dollars per front foot on eth
er side of the streets covered, witt
fourteen intersections to cost about
$500 each. Storm drains are also t.
be laid for six blocks on Second
avenue, designed to care for the
flood waters between the center line
of second street and the center line
of Second avenue, and between Mon
roe to Harrison streets.
The labor employed is almost ex-
clusively Phoenician labor. the onl,
exceptions being the company man
agcr and expert engineers. Even thu
cement and lumber used is bough
through local sources.
It's the big payroll that makes ;
town Manager Conway stated las
evening that his company would yer.
soon offer TO the residence section
OF the city a substantial pavement
not Of the costly quality required 70
the--heavy traffic i'm the business dis
trict, but one highly attractive ant
Ia e.F n he Low
the asphalt to be used down town.
Il believe the pavement eXperienc
will prove just the same in Phoeni
as it has elsewhere, only more so.
said Manager Conway. "ProGressiv
cities have learned the lesson tina