Arizona republican., 1911-05-13
NJ LONGER
 A QUESTION Phoenix, of a Verify, Will Have Paved Streets WAS SETTLED LAST NIGHT
City Council Adopted Assc-
 citation Report and Will Appoint Paving Commis- sion-OWners' Contract to Be Formulated Today.

In joint meeting of the city coun- cil. the paving association, Mir. F.. P Conway the representative of the Barber company and the. engineers, held last night. all the apparent diff entities in the way of paving We're swept away. and Phoenix this morn | ing enters upon a new era, the epoch l of paved streets. It is not unlikely | that before the sun sets tonight more 1 than one contract will be made for
 the actual work of paving and within
 very few days several blocks will be signed up. In any event it is cer- | tain that before sundown tonight such agreements will be ready for sigma
 ture tomorrow and thereafter And all was brought about in the most | perfect harmony SD that no cloud ap- pears to mar the popularity of the paving movement against which there is no apparent opposition.
 In this connection it may be well to emphasize that there has never
 been inharmOny Differences of opin- ion have existed only as to the prac- | ticability of this or that thing. Ghe l failure of the council on Thursday night, to accept the report of the paving association, after q long even ing devoted to discussion, was not i through any inharmony. but was due solely to the fact that some of the members of the council did not fully 1 understand all specifications in the report and did not fully agree with some that they did understand. They ! desired notifications which were
 made last night, whereupon the re port was adopted and provision was
 made for a Bunicipal paving commits | sion which will through a paving su- perintendent. have direct charge of | the work, or rather must approve Of l every step taken.
 The events of yesterday began with a meeting at o'clock in the Valley l Bank, attended by every member of | the council; every member of the eN- | ecutive committee of the Citizens Paw | ing association. except R. s. Good rich who is not in the city; F.. P. | Conway. representing the Barber com pany of Los Angeles. the successful bidder for the paving work and the | largest company in the country in I J. "A | gineer and James T. Cornwall the | special paving engineer employed by | the Paving association. As a result | sf the conference it was decided to | slightly amend the specifications so ! that on any point in which the pay | ing superintendent and the contractor | could not agree. the decision of a paving commission to be appointed by | the city council should be final. IL was also provided that the contractor should not sublet any contract with | out the written permission of the paw | ing commission which will probably | be composed of five citizens, conver- | sant with the question.
 | The paving contractor heartily agreed to all these details of the l specifications and this morning there will be a conference between City l Attorney Prescott. Judge Kibbey of | the Paving association and the con | tractors representative. in which a ! definite property owners contract will 1 be prepared. Immediately thereafter | the councils paving commission will organize campaign for securing the | signature of property owners to pay ing contracts. accompanied by the proper petition to the council
 The contractor agrees to commence paving within two weeks from the date that contracts are signed for the | laying of 25DO0 square wards of pave | ment Mir. Conway left with the eX-
 ecutive committee of the paving asso- 1 citation. a certified check for $2500 tO | show the company's good faith that when contracts are signed for 25,0O0 | wards of paving it will furnish a | bond to a trustee to be approved by | the paving commission, in the sum of | one half the amount of the paving contracts signed, for the proper per | formance of its work.
 The Barber company has a large | organization and will install a thor | oughly equipped plant to handle the | work. agreeing that as soon as con | struction work commences. not less than four blocks of pavement will be laid per month. In addition to the | strong responsibility of the Barber
 company the Warren Brothers of | Boston. who control the patents on the bitulithic pavements to be laid. will have personal representative on the work at all times. guarantee l ing that the pavement will be main | tained at the high standard of their material and work. | It is' interesting to note that the bithulithic pavement adopted. won the gold medal for paving material at the St. Louis exposition. and that St ' Louis now has over fifty miles of