The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-06-14
TO Pave FIFTEEN
MORE BLOCKS
At a Meeting of the City Council on
Tuesday Evening Decided to
Pave Some More Blocks
Remonstrance Petition Up Was Tabled
Paving Progressing Rapidly
Hard to Get Gravel and Sand

So we'll pleased are the residents OF
Denison with the new pavement that
they have prevailed upon the city
council to lay number of additional
blocks this summer. The city faith
ers held meeting last evening, at
which time it was decided to pave
from the intersection Of fremont
street down Court avenue to the Hi
nois Central tracks, also from the in
tersection of Church and Sweet street
south to the Northwestern freight de,
pot past the Carnegie library and the
Presbyterian and Baptist churches
An additional two blocks will be Or
dered in from the intersection Of Rail
road avenue and Locust street past
the Doud mill to the Northwestern
tracks and on State street from Locust
to Main street.
This additional pavement will go
through the regular legal process and
notices will be published in the local
papers next week for the same. The
council took the matter up with Mr..
M. L. Finn, of Sioux City, yesterday
and asked it he would do the addition
al paving at the same price which he
contracted for before. Mr. Flynn
stated that inasmuch as it would be
necessary to receive bids on this adj
ditional work, he would not care to
make known what his bid would be
but we understand that the price will
be as low or lower than the paving
which is now under way.
{ There has been considerable COM
plant over the fact that the pavement
only went to one depot and the coun
Gil felt that it might be we'll to have
the streets paved to both depots this
year rather than to put lit off until an.
other year. Court avenue will be
paved from the court house on down
past the /. C. freight depot up to their
tracks. This will make fine stretch
of pavement and one that will be used
as much as any Of the other streets
originally ordered in. TS
We are told that there is move
ment on foot to pave east Broadway
from the J. P. Jones corner to the P.
w. Harding corner. Property owners
in this block have petitioned the coun
Gil for this improvement and 1t is TO
be disposed of at meeting to be held
next Tuesday evening. '-n
A remonstrance petition dealing
with the grade at the J. P. Jones cor
ner was brought before the council
last evening, but no action was taken
There has been considerable trouble
over the grade at the intersection OF
Locust and Broadway in front of the
Jones residence and after thoroughly
the matter the council de-
cided to raise the grade few inches;
Property owners residing east OF this
corner pettioned the council to leave
the grade as it was in the first place.
but there is little likelihood that they
will be able to prevail upon the city
dads to do so. ''.- '' :
Paving Is progressing rapidly. most
of the work in North Denison now be.
ing completed. The contractors are
having considerable difficulty in secur-
ing sand and gravel and this Is de-
laying the work to some extent. Mr.
Finn is purchasing this material at
Lake View and has made several trips
up there to see if shipments could not
be made more regularly. 1t seems that
the concern selling the gravel and
sand is so rushed that they are unable
to supply the demand, notwithstand.
ing the fact that they have only re-
Gently installed additional equipment
to handle the work. There Is no bot
ter material available in the state for
concrete work than at Lake View and
they are supplying sand and gravel
for most Of the paving contractors in
western Iowa.
The Ward & Weighton company
who have the contract for laying the
new water main from the deep we'll
to the standpipe and also for the con-
struction of the concrete reservoir
near the power plant, have their men
on the ground and work will be start
ed at once. -,' ~.
The board of supervisors met Tues
day as board of canvassers to can.
vass the returns Of the primaries held
last week Already a few mistakes
have been found, but it is not expect
ed that the results will differ much
from the vote as printed in the last