Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-05

The season closing the first years
work Of the Universal Construction
Co. in this city will end the about the
middle Of the present month.
This company was organized the
present year and started actual con-
struction on North Summer street
about the first of June, on its first
contract for laying El-Oso pavement.
The years business covers contracts
for paving North Summer street,
ID" street, Oaks addition and the
entrance to the state fair grounds.
The territory affected by this i'm
proyement begins at Court street,
opposite the state capitol, and runs
north on Summer to Market street,
where it ends close to the North
Salem public school. The work on
Summer street has transformed that
street from a mud hole into the most
beautiful thoroughfare in the Cap
ital city. Lined with beautiful shade
trees, Summer street is now one of
the popular residence streets, con-
tanning many fine homes and several
new ones under construction. The
city has authorized a bridge Con-
structed across North Mill creek this
year. Property owners and visitors
are charmed with the appearance of
the new pavement, and are loud in
their praises. Commencing 112
feet west of Winter street El-Oso
pavement runs east, intersecting
Summer on %" street as far out as
Twentieth street. This pavement al
so affords hard-surface travel to the
Englwood public school. Oaks ad-
dition, which lies between Mill
creek and Market street, and the
Southern Pacific railroad track and
Winter street, Is a redistricted res
idence district, which will be one of
the finest and most complete pieces
of Improvement work done in the
Northwest. 1t will be a credit to the
city and the owners, The addition
will contain paved streets through
out, cement sidewalks and curbs,
gas. sewer and water service, two
street car lines, electric light SER
vice, and the streets will be adorned
with beautiful cluster light posts,
similar to the ones used in this city
on State and Commercial streets.
The company expects to have the en-
tire addition fully completed by the
middle of the present month. Aside
from the general benefits of the i'm
provement OF these. streets and Oaks
addition, introducing water and gas
into these localities, the new. hard
surface streets will vitally affect the
interests of the property owners in
the event of fire. The downtown
department can easily reach all that
territory north of the creek over
Summer street, and the East Salem
department can reach the Englewood
school house territory via Four
teenth over "D".
North Summer and I'D" streets
were finished the latter part of Sep
temper. and are now in the hands
of the council for acceptance. The
total area paved covers nearly TO-
600 square yards of El-Oso pave
ment.
Standard El-Oso pavement is some
thing new In Salem and the COM
pany has the pleasure of knowing
that all the property owners affect
ed by the improved district are very
Well satisfied with the improvement
1t is a six-lnch pavement with a
heavy twoinch wearing surface, CIV
ing a semi-elastlc malleable, water
proof surface, which has amply
proved itself this summer, under
competition, as being the only sure
and safe footing for horses on hard
surface streets, Considerable at