Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-30
CHERRY STREET NOW UNDERGOING
 TRANSFORMATIONS Work There Most Expen- sive of Any Yet Under
 taken i'll Pine Bluff.
CONTRACTORS PLAN
 TO WORK RAPIDLY
Before Paving Finished, Expected Pres Jeet fer Graycs Road to Country Club Will Re Under Way-GOod
 Roads Enthusiasm Still High.

With the completion of the work of paving West Tenth avenue, and the several streets in the Fifteenth ave- nue-Laurel street paving district, the forces of the Kaw Paving company have been concentrated on the work in Cherry street, and although there has been some interference by the weather, satisfactory progress IS being made.
 Considering the area to be paved, the amount of cutting and filling nece essary, the quantity of curbing and underground drainagework, and especially tho ala ount of work nec- essary in connectian with the double tracking of the street car system. the Cherry strest paving job: perhaps the largest and most expensive yet undertaken in this city. :i
 The double tracking extends from Sixth avenue to Sixteenth avenue, and thereafter, to Twenty-sixth ave- nue, thia single track system is maintained. The double tracking called for an entirely new outfit of tr2lley poles, trolley wires and tro1- Icy supports. TAis las been com- pletea. The double tracking is virtu- ally completed through ut the rails being Of 90-pound steel, placed on solid. everlasting concrete bases. The single track portion of the line is now being rebuilt, in the same suh- way tracks are concerned, about all that is yet to be done is the paving between the rails and fsr one foo CD each side.
 The Kaw Paving company, which has the ccntract for paving the street and for the curbs and drainage work, ia moving forward in fine manner, with. 8 very large force, of worl1men engaged. The worst and heaviest part of the work has been completed, and it is expected that within very few weeks. the concrete base will have been laid and the top surface of asphalt will be going down.
 Before this paving contract shall have been complated, however, it is Expected work will be under way on the prop sed modern gravelled- turn |pike from the city limits, at Cherry street and Twenty-fourth avenue, to a point in the vicinity Of the grounds recently purchased by the Pine Bluff Golf and County club. This district, No. IS, has already been organized, and Engineer w. J. Parkes is new preparing plans and estimates. The commissioners are planning to hold meeting within short time, to assess the benefits against the prop erty in the district, and to award the contract. The work will be started early in the spring, and will re rushed to completion. Connecting with the pavement in Cherry street, thence with other paved streets, it will give the city and county a con tinuous stretch of fine roadway from the court house almost three miles into the country. and with one or two short links, it will extend several times vthat distance, by conNsding with other good turnpikes.
 Another Road Wanted.
 Since work was started on the big modern turnpike which will extend across Grand county, from east to west, property towners in Washing ton township have been discussing the advisability of building a good road to extend from the dollarway to the eastern terminus of the Grant county turnpike. and it is expected definite acticn in this matter will be taken within the next few weeks.
 Infcrmaton relative to this pro- posed strip of good road could net