Arizona republican., 1916-01-08
Let the Streets Be Paved

What is to be done in the matter of street paving, under most favorable condition that yet presented, and, perhaps, favorable than the commission may be able offer again soon be a reasonable degree of promptness. By d favorable condition means specifications have been adopted wide variety of types of paving from which to make selection, and fairly large of outlined which should secure a number of competitors, each representing of the types. Of course, will always have all of these specifications but always be assured that there will be representatives of all kinds of paving bid on the specifications.
 There are always objectors to any kind of paving, and there always will be. Petitions of protest being circulated and, intentionally unnten- tionaIy, misrepresentations being made prop erty in the paving districts For instance, they being told, understand, that the paving will from s4OO $500 fiftyfo lot. To residing a residence district even in semi business district, that is clncher against paving. for in districts such a would equal to the value of ffty-foot lot Property led believe if they directly told. that the paving be paid for and if that in certain portions of the city bill of S4OO $500 against lot would almost absorb the owners interest
 But the facts that the expensive paving specified would notcost s4OO for fiftyfoo lot and proposes or expects that expensive paving would be used in the residence districts, any district where the traffic very heavy There nine specifications from which the residents of district take their choice These various kinds in price from s2.2O square yard down to $125 yard, even less. Several of these less expensive pavings The Republican wants it clearly understood that while it advocates paving a real competitive basis it is advocating special kind of paving-would the purposes of the resi- dence districts well as the most expensive.
 We will take for instance, a concrete paving which has been used for years in Wayne county, Michigan and which probably the best known stretch of concrete paving in the country. We three stretches of paving Phoenix. good type of it can be laid, with bitumnous dress ing, for $1.45 square yard, less We are using this illustration only in general way. The same figures may be used in relation asphaltic concrete paving, such that used Monroe street near the Central school building though consider ably lower price has been suggested paving of that type. Take street whose roadway from curb to curb is thirty feet, and for many residence streets that is an average width In the entire road in front of fifty 166 2-3 square yards, the paving of which would S241.67. Add to this 80 lineaI curbing and gutter and would have for paving both sides of the street between two fftyfoot lots $28167, S14O83 for each lot Other charges to be added are SPA for intersections this cost being distributed through out the entire paving district; s16.95 drainage and for engineering, bringing cost for fifty-foot lot $182O2.
 Nor is this to be paid a lump sum. Under the resolutions of intention, payment would be spread period of years, payment to be made in January of next year That payment would be s182O, with interest amounting to s1O.92 The interest charges would grow less each year The pavement, with the interest, would cost the property not quite eight a day for the entire year and every year daily charge would less.
 In ten years the paving would add many times to the value of the property. The addition to the We believe that any of property owners along North Central avenue any of the avenues where paving has been Iaid will agree with us out of their experience.
 We presenting elsewhere this morning the cost fiftyfoot lot of paving four designated streets, which much wider than the one we have chosen for purposes of illustration per lot is somewhat in excess of the above, though a paving of lower price been used in the calculation. But those streets the roadway sixty-two feet.
 The figures which The Republican presented in it's very comprehensive page article paving in it's issue of December 27 conservatively rived at. It is quite possible that in many instances the paving could be laid for less
 We have shown how slight burden paving would lay the property of the residence dis trcts If paving should be begun in all the paving