El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-26
FL PAS0 HAS 1866 MILES Of
FINE PAVED STREETS, 80 NEW
Rapid Growth Has Made Ell Paso City of Broad Streets
and Spacious Drives; Paved Streets and Sidewalks
Passed 100 Mile Mark During the Period
Burdened With War Activities

streets, but hundreds OF adobes skirt
I ing them have been RACED by the city
and spacious avenues built in their
stead. Then, too. FL Paso is in her
youth, although her size is greater
than many cities that existed hun
dreds Of years before her birth She
/ is a city Of rapid growth. and modern,
therefore with broad streets. Her net
work Of ample concrete and stone
sidewalks are over 100 miles in
length.
Progress Shown in Ten Years.
Seldom in the history Of the west
has city grown so rapidly as FL
PasO. For a decade business kept
feeding the city at such rate that
all she could do, apparently, was to
grow, and many improvements needed
for a city Of her size were lacking no
longer than ten years ago It was
not until 1915 that the first paving
district was formed downtown and
bonds amounting TO 100000 voted to
cover the work. The work was COM
pleted in 1907. The next year saw ad-
ditiOnal work under way and no year
has passed since without increasing
amounts Of paving. The fact that
practically all the paving and side
walk work in Ell Paso, amounting TO
over 100 miles Of each. has been done
within the last 10 ten years. explains
why all the work is modern.
The following indicates the streets
on which new pavement was laid dur
ing 1917 and the number Of square
yards on each- Bliss. 1851: Cotton.
1852; Second. 1855 Chihuahua,
4333; North Ohoa. 1914; North St.
Vrain, 1886; san Jacinto, 15.709; Du-
range. 1919; South Campbell, $3.50;
Los Angeles. 7144; North Oregon. 54SS;
Myrtle, 27,649; Austin, 1913; Newman,
5257; Block 46. 1719; Florence. 1856;
North OchOa. 5271: Park. 9019; Vir-
ginia, 1911; North St Vrain. 3644; Ala
mogordo, 1850; Octavia. 653S; Cliff
9S52; Bassett. 1924; Mills, 1862;
Stewart, 1914; Stanton. 1917; anthony,
2O01; Trowbridge, 1875: West Main,
2S71; East Missouri. 1925; Kansas,
4s5; Rosa 1924; North Santa Fe. 4075;
East Boulevard, 3434; Dallas. 240S;
south St Vrain, 1850; miscellaneous,
257S.
Paving on parts Of the following
streets, aggregating approximately
119.04S square yards, has been pre-
scented TO the city council and ap-
proved Piedras, North Stanton, WyO-
ming Missouri, Aurora, Clifton. Co
pia, Hueco. La Luz, Seventh, Estrella,
Lebanon, Cambridge, Oxford. Cumber-
land. Chester, Galloway avenue. Nc
Kiligan, Madeline avenue, Baltimore. I
Kern boulevard. Park road. North
Florence. Noble, Brown, Lee, Cotton, !
Birch. Davis, Erie. Laurel. Main. Circle {
da. High, White oaks. Westminster ]
and Noble.
Building New Streets.
Building of new streets is being I
promoted on the following streets as 1
limited: West Boulevard. Miriam 10 /
Viaduct; Stevens avenue, AlamogOrdo /
to Hastings; Maple avenue. Boulevard /
to Grand avenue; Mundy avenue, Put /
nam TO West Boulevard; Noble. Wyo-
ming 10 Cliff; Brown, Wyoming to 7
Cliff Williams, Wyoming TO Rio 4
Grande: Rosewood, Wyoming TO Mon
tana; Morenci, COpia TO Stevens; Bis
bee, Luna to Stevens; san Antonio.
Piedras TO Cotton; Douglas, COpia 10
Stevens; Pe-a, Piedras TO Boone ave
nCe; Rivera. Piedras to Boone avenue;
Frutas. Piedras to Stevens.
New cities Of rapid growth have the
to build the best systems
OF streets and sidewalks and FL PasO 4
has awaited herself OF that oppOr-
tunity. Globe trotters are unanimous
in the verdict that FL PasO is one Of
the best cities to be found in America.
Merchants say that we have just been
having "a mechanics Christmas" with a
tremendous demand for medium and low
priced goods.