Arizona republican., 1912-08-22
OF
 PAVING WORK
Operations Will Be Re sumed Soon and Pushed Vigorously All Winter; the First Work; Plans for Central Avenue

central Avenue
 Phoenix first indulgence in street paving has resulted very satisfactorily. The sections paved look so much bet ter and actually are so much better for both business and pleasure, that the appetite of the populace has only beer Whetted for more paving Then, too, the first of it has endured the test of nearly one entire summer and has stood it we'll. The first summer is the worst and some Have been so pes simistic as to believe that any summer would be disastrous to the paving ma- terial employed here. It is with plea
 sure that their disappointment is an nOunced
 That the paving work will be con tinued there never has been a question.
 That it will Ee resumed in very few days is also definitely announced, as
 well as where it will be resumed. As almost everybody knows, there are a
 few patches left open in the district already paved. It is hoped these may
 be fixed by fair time for the looks of
 things. It can not be begun until cer- tain provisions of the new street inn provement law are compiled with but just as soon as the legal time expires in those matters there is no doubt the paving will be completed. The facts in connection with that law were ex- plained at some length in yesterdays Republican.
 Meanwhile the Barber Asphalt Paw ing company has other work ready and lot of it in sight for the future The first work that will be undertaken now will be the paving of South Central av-
 enue and South First avenue. at either end Of the Southern Pacific depot property. The paving is already down as far as the Santa Fe tracks and this will complete it around both de- pots. The next piece of work planned is on Third street from Washington to Adams, connecting two streets al ready paved. Then will come the paving of the alley between Adams 1 and Monroe, from First street to First avenue Next will come First avenue and First street, from Adams to Mon roe. It is believed that all this work can be accomplished by fair time and 1 it is hoped that operations may be on 1 in full force during the fair, as an | advertisement for this city. That l was the case last year though it was ] then very much of a nuisance as the 1 down town streets were then very 1 badly torn up, as they cannot be this 1 year.
 1 Immediately after the fair it is | hoped that work may begin on North | Central avenue and already the pre- 1 liminaries are under earnest discus sion. There is division of sentiment over the question of whether that street shall be paved its full width or whether it shall be bordered with i parks. The street is 100 feet wide. l Paving costs money and it is sub mitted by the park partisans that if l twenty four feet are taken off each
 side for sidewalk and park, the fif- 1 ty-tWo feet left for paving will be 1 amply wide for very creditable ! boulevard and the paving will be less 1 of d burden. Also it is contended | that the parks will add a glory to the boulevard that can be secured in no other way and make the avenue as famous with the tourist world eventually as Euclid avenue of Cleve- l land or Summit avenue of St. Paul. ! Opponents of the narrower street say
 that it is not unlikely that business will spread some distance to the
 north and that fifty-two feet is too narrow for business street The reply is that if the street be parked ! it will be easy enough when that time | more desirable than an unnecessary | investment in paving at this time. l It is proposed to proceed on both l North Central avenue and on West ] Washington street, on the assump- 1 tion that these thoroughfares will be 1 lighted at an early day. to the ful 1 length of the paving by a continua ton of the ornamental sidewalk stan dards. To that end it is proposed tt lay the conduits for the wires be fore the pavement is laid that there need be no tearing up later. The city now has on hand an ample quan- tity of conduits, to care for both Cen
 tfal Ivtntts and West Washington stree,
 And as for West Washington it i hoped that very soon after the frs
 of January work may be started O
 extension of the paving as far as tn
 capuot bliilcine
 The work of laying the pavemen
 is factor of some moment in tn
 industrial life of the city. Manage
 Conway says that his payroll for la
 bor and necessary purchases will aV
 craze about $75,000 per month whic
 materially helps the cash circulation
 in this vicinity.