Arizona republican., 1915-05-03
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
THE PAVING QUESTION

In the Monroe street paving matter coming before the commissioners in
 June, 1914, about 75 per cent of the l property owners in the proposed pay | ing district signed and presented a l petition to the mayor and the com 1 mission protesting against paving ] said proposed district, and asked that ] they be given time to investigate diff | ferent types of pavement to see if
 they could not find a suitable pave
 ment that would be cheaper than the bitulithic which they deemed to be i too expensive.
 The mayor appointed committee
 of twelve property owners to investi l gate the paving proposition, and at | their request with the approval of the mayor and two of the commissioners the other two being absent at the time. MT Parish visited several of the coast cities, getting such informa | tion and making such investigations ! as he could On his return he sub
 mitted q report to the committee and a meeting was called on August IT, 1914, to consider the report, the com mittee failing to agree, no report was made to the commission. But the 1 knowledge gained and the facts pre- scented by MT. Parish in his report deemed to be of too great impor- tance to the citizens of Phoenix to ignore.
 have therefore, made a brief sum mary of the most important items and present them herewith for the information and benefit of the prop erty owners in the proposed paving districts and the city at large. The city of Burlingame, a suburb nf San Francisco after PXDprlment- ing with five different kinds of pave ment, laid on several short stretches of streets and carefully considering them all decided that all their pave ments of the future should be on concrete base and have a F inch non -skidding wearing surface of as
 phaltic concrete.
 From the experiments above men toned they further decided that of
 all the types of asphaltic paving in use on the Pacific Coast, standard
 sheet asphalt presents the most per
 manent wearing surface, the obJec-
 tion being its slipperiness. But in the Topeka surface they found prac-
 tically the same wearing surface of the sheet asphalt with the addition of about 25 per cent of rock aggregate all of which will pass a 113 inch mesh.
 This aggregate produced the neces- sary rough surface to prevent the skidding of rubber tires. and gave better foot hold for horses
 Burlingame had in May. 1914, (the report was received in July, 19l4)
 IS of her B miles of streets paved or under contract. to be paved with this type of paving and the good
 work "is still going on" We also learned that since the adoption by the city of Burlingame of the To peka type of pavement it has been specified by the following cltles; Stockton. Hollister Mayfield, Los Gotos. South San Francisco. Hills borough. Los Angeles, San Francisco and by the state highway commission
 for it's highest type of roads We also learned that Professor sturgeon of the University of California was secured by the proprietors or the St Francis Wood" addition to san Francisco. as consulting engineer ana after thorough investigation ne adopted the Topeka Specifications
 as the pavement for the addition
 said to he the finest paved addition
 to any city in California.
 This type of pavement laid on