Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-22
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City Council Decides to im- prove Highway; Slag Paved Street
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CORPORATIONS AID

! AyOlAI tOANAp &h II tS Two thousand dollars from the
 street improvement fund of the city was appropriated by the city council last night at a special meeting for [ the oiling of Naco road from the ' city limits on the east to the point of beginning of the brick pavement on iNaco road just in front of the city hall
 Data on the amount of oiling that
 would be necessary cost, etc. was gathered by Chairman J. w. Kinney, Of the street committee and submit ted to the council. There is $500 square yards of road surface in that | section of the road, and Chairman Kinney estimates that this can he piled for about S2000, basing his es- innate upon a tentative bid furnished Iby W. NJ. Adamson. of Scott and Adamson, contractors who have the contract for oiling the road from the eastern city limits of Bisbee to the Bisbee- Douglas highway below Low ell.
 The work that the contractors oi- | fer to do on the city road is the same as they are doing on the coun- | ty road in the composition of the
 road surface. and the offer to crown the road and repair it all the way 1 for an additional cent and quarter per square yard. The oil that the I contractors will agree to use is 50 1 per cent asphaltum oil.
 ! The tentative proposition made by | the firm, through Mir. Adamson pro vided for narrowing the road for a depth of two and a half inches. Mir. ! Adamson stating that experience had proven that it was economy 10 put on a thin oiled surfacd, as otherwise | the road surface would tend to roll. | having more leverage than on a two
 and half inch surface This is the deuth of oiled crest on all CalifOr- mia roads, according to Mir AdamsOn. Quick was the only councilman tO 1 oppose action in the matter, attempt ing to get through a motion to take ! it under consideration. but the motion failed to receive second. Kinney
 offered a motion authorizing the eN- penditure Of S2,00O for oiling 6,9U0 square yards of road surface on
 Naco road between the eastern city limits and the city hall, and author izing the mayor and the city engineer to prepare specifications and adver- tise for bids on the work The en tire matter was placed in the hands of these two officials with power to
 act.
 When the mayor put the question of the appropriation to a vote, Coun Icilman Quick called for the roll call which resulted as follows: Ayes:
 Hill. Kinney, Warrington and Will Hams Noes. Quick Absent, Hen messy.
 The mayor called the attention oi the council to the fact that the rainy
 season was approaching and that t
 might be well to take some action iiregarding the street between the Phelps Dodge store and the Copper Queen general office building. The
 advice of MT. AdamsOn was askel
 on the use Of slag as a paving ma terial, and he said that his eXper
 fence as mayor of Douglas was that
 for city or county roads it was good , and would serve as well as brick. J. M. O'Connell, Of the legal de partment of the Warren-Bisbee rail
 way, was present, and stated that h,
 felt sure the company would hau free of charge all slag that would | be needed for such work, which state
 ment was supported by Jesse Yoak
 um, superintendent of the railroad.
 Judge O'COnneIl, in this connection also said that it was the intention
 of the cOmpany to ballast the entir, trackage of the street railway in th, , city.
 The matter Of using slag from th' slag dump and their cooperation in th' plan of paving this piece of roa' , with slag, will be taken up by Mayo
 Williams with officials of the twi | companies at an early date. and ] special meeting Of the council vii l be called to take action in the mat D ter.
 Dr. N. C. BIedsoe. district super l visor Of the Borderland route, wa i present, and when asked by tn | mayor if he had anything to say ol - the matter of good roads. he respond
 ed with congratulations to tn
 mayor and the council for the pro , gressive step taken Will Solomon - of the Commercial club, also con | | graduated the council. There wer s a number of prominent business me $, and members Of the Commercial clu s present at the meeting.
 - Permission was granted the Phelp |. fDodge store to construct a sidewal along the north side of the stor - and warehouse, three feet wide an l. from eight to ten inches above tn F surface of the road. Only Counci l. man Quick opposed giving permii
 sion for constructing the sidewalk.