Weekly journal-miner., 1917-02-21
BETTER PAVING THANMACADAM
 DEMANDED
TAXPAYERS AGREE ON IMPROVING STREETS B U T B E VIE NOR PIE R M A N E N T KIND IS PREFERABLE; LICE T SYSTEM IS ALSO A TOPIC
 AT CHAMBER MEETING

AT CHAMBER MEETING I The plan of the city authorities to
 macadamiZc the business streets by
 force account, ran upon large inn
 movable snag at a mass meeting of
 taxpayers in the chamber of com
 merce rooms last evening. The ob- jection against macadam was not
 urged because the meeting liked mac
 adam the less, but because 1t loved paving more.
 If paving, then the best, most in
 telligent and most lasting, was the
 verdict. A motion put by F. s. Clark just before the meeting broke up, crystalized the sentiment of the citi-
 zcns and 1t was that if the city wants
 to put in crushed rock base and oil
 surface, 1t may do so in the residential
 sections, but for the business district,
 where traffic conditions are heavier
 and growing more so each year, put down concrete base.
 The meeting on paving and lighting i followed the regular weekly conclavc of the chamber Of commerce, at which routine affairs were discussed.
 Mayor w. II. Timerhoff presided.
 To pay little more and have pay ! ing that will be permanent, is wiser than to put down comparatively cheap and possibly unsatisfactory sort
 of macadam. was the way F. s. Clark summed 1t up. He said that Prescott ' deserved the best sort of street inn provements that can possibly be secured.
 Harry Heap. who paid for some
 paving adjacent to property in Phoe- nix, said that the permanent charac- ter of the work had enhanced the value of his place more than the cost He described the manner in which the
 State law relative to paving districts is applied to the problem in the capi- tai city. The property owners-15 per cent of them-initiatc a district The city gives the other S5 per cent or any part of them an opportunity to register objections, and unless 5l per cent balk, 1t lays the pavement. The cost is then paid by the city in the form of claims against the district, and these claims are paid by the peo- pie. according to the frontage they ments, as they choose to elect. Six per cent interest is charged.
 Mayor Timerhoff and City Clerk Frank Whisman each mentioned a rather unfortunate piece of alleged paving in Phoenix, which, they cited as reasons why the Phoenix system might not be a good one to go by in this instance. It was shown, how ever, that the unsatisfactory paving in question was not anything more or less than a sort of macadam ] Crushed rock had been used as a base | and low grade of oil applied, with | the result the streets were turned . into jokes Cor tragedies, as the ob- 1 server chances to look at it)
 H. D. Aitken supported the better pavement plan with a good deal of warmth. He said that he would go on record as saying that the pros i perity of Prescott now and in its im- | future, would justify the ex- penditure of S350 lot for paving. if 1t could be handled in the ten yearly rather than the expendi- turc of SIS lot for oiling that would not last a fourth as long.
 MT. King, the city'S road oiling cX- pert, said that what is called grade could not be laid on the streets of Prescott with the crushed rock proposed to be taken out of Granite creek. He said that lime rock of a certain grade, was the only ma terial on which really first-class mac adam could be spread. He contended, however, that the California misfor- tune in macadam laying need not be ( here, where more care could S De used in applying the rock He 7 agreed that the proposed four-inch r ayer of rock would not give the wear {; ng qualities that a six or eight-inch )ase would give.
 F. s. Viele injected little pep" C ntO the meeting by ''h'isting" Harry leaps prosperity prediction by about ! our times. He came out keenly in C avor of the more permanent form of | treet improvements, and before he C rot around to the subject of street :, ighting, on which he was called to ak, managed to register a lot of r AiipAabiN ShpPOll iOl llC pdNlllS
 Chad Hinderer suggested that the rec services of a member of the gov [, rnment bureau of public roads be a ecured, if Prescott is to go on with {, he proposed macadam plans. il
 It was then pointed out that Flag f. taff has, during the past half year, . aved about F blocks with the best nown sort of pavement. Of course, U me has not tested that pavement, G or the Flagstaff frosts tried its l but it was pointedly asked: ot If Flag can put in real paving, why sl ot Prescott2" "
 Lighting System O. K. er For efficiency, the present street ii ghts cannot be beaten, according to ,l iele. They may not be beautiful, ut they pour down heap more H. animation per dollar upkeep, than res or ornamental standard lights, lch as the capital of the State boasts
 He also suggested that if there is a W love 10 pave, it had better be pre- B ced by some hard thinking about n, laying water mains, putting in cleo c,, ic conduits for the street lights. and s