Arizona republican., 1917-06-21
MAKES PROPOSITION T0
 RAILWAY PEOPLE
Offer of Street Railway Co.
 Is Rejected and Counter Proposition Will Be Up at Conference Later On

 ing of West Washington street, Fourth street from Washington to Roosevelt and on Second avenue from Van Duren to Fillmore street and on Monroe street from Second avenue to Second street be not accepted.
 Be it further resolved that the city is willing to enter into an agreement with the Phoenix Railway company of Arizona relating to said improvements upon the condition that said railway company will agree as follows:
 First: That the question of paving West Washington street remain in abeyance for the present.
 Second: That it will pave the street intersections of Fourth street from Washington to Roosevelt with the s..me class of pavement which is to be used in the paving of the rest of the street. that it will cover the space between the rails and between the inner rails of the two tracks with 2-inch crushed rock or gravel and that portion between the outer rails and the header boards to be filled in from the bottom of the ties to Ine top of the rails with crushed rock or gravel and rolled. The whole of the track so improved by the railway com pany between intersections to be oiled with not less than half gallons of crude asphaltic oil containing at least 70 per cent of asphaltum to the square yard of surface.
 Third: On Second avenue the com pany to grade and pave intersections, placing an additional intersecton be- tween Van Buren and Roosevelt streets and to cover the space occupied by the street railway company -I the same nd he tions as heretofore provided for Fourth street.
 Fourth: That the railway company pave Monroe street from Second avenu- to Second street.-the track to conform to the established grade. The paving between intersections is to be the same as intersections. namely: 26-A.
 Fifth. It is to be understood and agreed by the railway company that the work of improving Fourth and Monroe streets will be begun and carried on simultaneously with the work of pay ing the rest of the streets, and that the other work herein provided for is to be begun within a reasonable time anc prosecuted with reasonable diligence until completed"
 The foregoing resolution was adopted unanimously by the city commission at the regular weekly meeting yesterday morning as an answer to the petition of the Phoenix Railway company that it be relieved of the responsibility of pay i ing it's portion of North Fourth street at the present time. The commission had at first flatly rejected the proposals of the company, and then adopted this resolution in an effort to arrive at a compromise.
 At the outset yesterday morning. At torney L. H. Chalmers. representing the Phoenix Railway company read the following proposal:
 Regarding matters that have been up for discussion we beg to say that We are willing to do the following:
 l. To put West Washington street track to it's proper grade;
 ?. To cover that area of West Wash ington street on which the double track was to be placed with inches of crushed rock or gravel. Intersections are already paved.
 ! 3. We will pave the street inter- sections of Fourth street from Wash l ington to Roosevelt, we to be permit | ted to cover the area occupied by the l street car tracks between street inter l sections with inches of crushed rock or gravel. The track on North Fourth 1 street to be placed to it's proper grade. 1 Street intersections to be of the same i character of paving as now existing at 1 the intersection of First avenue and 1 Monroe street on our company's tracks. l This specification for the reason that 1 we have found from experience that 1 this class of paving is much more satis- 1 factory on street railway tracks thar any other for the reason that it does no; i break like the solid concrete base as i now exists on Washington street. 1 4. To put the track on Second ave 1 nue to grade and pave intersections, placing an additional intersection be- | tween Van Buren and Roosevelt street ] on account of the long distance be- 1 tween Van Buren and Roosevelt, we t0 cover the space occupied by the street ] railway track with inches of crushed i rock or gravel as provided for Fourth 1 street and West Washington street. i ,. Our understanding is that our | Monroe street track is now at it's proper i grade as established by MT. Parrish and ! his engineering department while MT.
 Parrish was city manager, and as re- i corded in his records. We will agree to l pave Monroe street from Second avenue | to First street when that portion of 1 Monroe street is paved, the grade to re- 1 main as at present.
 It is our understanding that the above offer is made on condition that We are | to be released from dOuble-tracklng l West Washington street, and that in | any future improvements on our tracks now constructed on city streets under our franchise We are to be permitted ! to follow the above plan as to placing 1 crushed rock or gravel on those DOT tions of the streets occupied by our
 tracks. until such time as we are fi- nancially able to pave.
 Attorney Chalmers referring to the plan of the city commission to have
 the city go ahead and pave the railroad company's portion of the street, said i he did not believe the city could legally do this, and that if the courts held that
 the city could do this, it would simply mean receivership for the company. i He said the company was not finan- cially able at this time to assume the
 burden of paying for the proposed paw ! ing. He said further the company would probably be unable to sell it's ! bonds to take care of the work, es- pecially in view of the fact that the l company had never paid any dividends. i Commissioner Jones said he under stood the desire of Fourth street prop erty owners was to have the Phoenix
 Railway company pave up to its tracks, and that he believed they consider 1 nothing else. James H. Kinney said 1t
 would be satisfactory if the company
 would pave up to the tracks and put in
 crushed rock or gravel between the
 tracks. Joseph Geare said if the city
 is in position to pave or compel the railway company to do so, the property owners would like to have this done, but if not, they were willing to accept the next host thipp