The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-01-08
MORE THAN SIXTY
BLOCKS Of PAVING
CITY COUNCIL TAKES ACTION TO
CONTINUE GOOD WORK BE-
GUN LAST YEAR
THE TAXPAYERS ARE DEMANDING THIS
Seven Blocks Laid and 21 Ordered
Last Year and Now % More
Blocks Ordered.

Action taken Tuesday night by the
city council insures more than five
miles of paving for Brookings as soon
as present plans can be carried out.
Resolutions adopted by unanimous
vote Of the council at the Tuesday
tracts for % blocks Of street paving
and five blocks on two alleys. Dur
ing the colsing months of 1919 there
was ordered 21 blocks, which will be
included in this years improvement,
and the city already has seven blocks
which was laid in 1919. OF course the
length of time which must intervene
before all of the projected paving can
be completed will depend very much
upon future conditions in the labor
and material markets, but the majority
of citizens and taxpayers wish the
paving to be completed as rapidly as
is possible, consistent with practical
business methods, and as the city
council is in hearty accord with this
majority in the matter there will be
no unnecessary delay.
The meeting Of the council Tues
day night was called to hear objec-
tions from interested property owners
upon the streets for the paving of
which petitions had been filed. The
only petition to which serious formal
protest was offered was the one which
60 in Of Si " G
on Seventh avenue. In protest against
this paving Attorney ]. p. Alexander
appeared on behalf Of 65 per cent of
the property owners fronting on the
street. The council thereupon voted
to reject the petition for paving
Seventh avenue, and so it will remain
unpaved until the property owners on
this street shall recede from their
present position.
There was also objection made to
paving certain blocks on Fifth street,
on which a total of twelve blocks had
been asked. The objection to three
blocks of this was sustained by
vote of the council, and cOnsid-
Grafton of the remainder was passed
over to be taken up at the next meet
ing which will be held January 10.
The streets included in the paving
resolutions adopted are the following:
Three blocks, 80 feet wide, on Third
street between Medary and Thirteenth
avenues. Twelve blocks on Williams
street from First to Twelfth avenue,
80 feet wide except two blocks in the
business center which will be SO feet
wide. Fourteen blocks on Sixth street
"a feet wide, between First and Four
teenth avenues Three blocks on the
alley between Third avenue and Main
street from Third to Sixth street, and
a little more than block on the alley
between Main and Fifth avenues from
Front to Williams street. The alleys
will be paved their full width, about
20 feet.
Seven blocks on Main street were
paved last year. On Third street seven
blocks were ordered paved last year,
the same on Third, and on Medary
avenue the same. This 21 blocks
was not completed because OF labor
and other conditions.
Three or four kinds of material will
be considered in letting contracts for
the new work, including concrete,
asphalt and bithulithic concrete. 1t
is believed that the cost of the paving
will vary from approximately $500 to
$1,000 per front foot, varying accord
ing to the width of the paving and
the materials used.