El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-01
UPSON AVENUE
PAVING AND
PARKING
Property Owners Reach an
Agreement for First Glass
Asphalt Roadway.
BEAUTIFUL PARKWAY
rs NOW ASSURED

Epson avenue property owners, meet
ing in the Herald building Tuesday
night agreed to pave that street from
to Lawton avenue with an asphalt ma
cadam roadway with six inch base Of
crushed rock and to have 16 to 20
pounds of asphalt to the square yard.
The roadway is to be 36 feet wide and
to have II feet of parking on either
side of the roadway.
v. B. Andreas was appointed treas
urer Of the parking fund and named
committee composed of A. G. Andreas,
James A. Murdoch, ]. Patton and w. J.
Rand to take up the parking propo-
sition with other property owners than
those who signed it Tuesday night.
It was decided that it would be IN
wise to decrease the width Of the road
way east of Santa Fe street, but the
parking already established there will
come under the general parking sys
tenn of the whole street and will be
cared for by the city.
This is the third street in the city
to adopt the parking plan, Magofrin
avenue and Rio Grande street having
experimental with it and found it to
the liking of the property owners.
It will mean the construction of an
other boulevard that will add materi-
ally to the beauty of 81 Paso streets
and will give a beautiful driveway
leading to Mundy Heights the pro-
jected Mesa boulevard, and the upper
valley road.
A committee composed OF H B. Ste
vens, Charles Hawkinson and Battelle
White was appointed TO confer with
city engineer T. H. Todd today AMI
secure the city test required for
asphalt 10 be laid on city streets
Among those present at the meeting
were H B. Stevens, v B. Anjreas. J.
c. Wilmarth, w. ]. Rand, Abraham
Wolff. ]. NJ. Phipps. H. ". Connolly.
Battelle White, T. ]. Sullivan. Chas.
Cottingham. j. NJ Duthie, J. E. Piper,
J. W. Curtis.
The Parking Proposition.
Following is the agreement for
parking, drawn up in the form Of a
letter to the mayor and council, after
the same plan already adopted for Rio
Grande street and Magoffin avenue:
FL Paso, Texas, Feb. %.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council:
We, the undersigned. taxpayers,
owners of real estate abutting on Up
son avenue in the city of III Paso,
Texas. desire that said street be parked
upon the general 8 plan recommended
by the FL Paso park commission in
its report to you dated June 9, 1903,
with certain changes herein specified;
and We hereby petition you to take
such official steps as may be neces-
sary TO cause said parking plan to be
carried into effect as soon as possible
We desire that the driveway on Epson
avenue between Santa Fe street and
Lawton avenue be paved not to ex-
coed SO feet wide, the driveway TO be
in the center of said Epson avenue,
and the balance of the width of the
street to be devoted to a footway on
each side OF the street adjacent to the
property line and 10 parking equally
divided on both sides Of the street to
take up the remaining space. We de-
sire that the curb parking shall be
constructed and maintained by the city
authorities, and forever controlled and
supervised by the city authorities un-
der the plan adopted for Rio Grande
street, as recommended by the park
commission. And we desire the park
ing plan 10 be continued east of Santa
Fe street to the intersection with Mis-
souri, street, retaining the width of the
driveway on this portion of the street
as now officially established.
In order that this plan may be car
ried out. we. the undersigned, owners
of real estate abutttng on Epson ave-
nue. between its intersection with Mis-
souri, street and Lawton avenue, for |
value received, hereby promise and |
agree voluntarily 10 contribute and /
pay to Y. B. Andreas, as treasurer. in ,,
cash. as soon as this agreement shall I
have been signed by the owners Of at I
least fifty-five percent Cos percent) of 1
the frontage abutting on the portion l
of Epson avenue TO be parked an /
amount equal to % cents per abutting /
foot for all property owned by US !
abutting on said portion of Epson ave-
nue. to be so parked. and to make such /