The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-12
COUNCIL PASSES
PAVING ORDINANCE
HAYES AND B STREETS TO BE
PAVED, PROVIDED NOT TOO
EXPENSIVE, is PLAN.

The city council met Monday night
and passed the ordinance providing
for paving B street from Polk to
Hayes and Hayes street from B to
north side of G street, and instructed
the city attorney to. draw such an
ordinance to be taken up for passage
at the next meeting Of the council.
Some protests were made against the
paving, but it was announced that
these were too late, as the time for
protesting closed at o'clock Monday
afternoon.
The matter was discussed at some
length but there being no formal or
legal protest against it the city coun-
Gil voted to order the paving ordi-
nance drawn. When this is done and
the ordinance is passed there will be
estimates of cost and calls for bids.
The property owners will have the
right to protest at that time, if they
deem the cost too high.
There seems to be a general feeling
of fairness among all those interest
ed and no one wishes to place heavy
Melgard, banker, heavy property
owner and nominee for mayor, whose
residence is in the proposed paving
district, said: I want to have the
streets paved, but if the cost is going
to be anything like the estimate pub
ljshed in Mondays Star-Mirror |
would oppose it and l think every one
else on the street would be opposed to
paving at that cost. No one wants
to work a hardship on any property
owner or to pave if the cost is going
to be greater than the general bene-
fits. I would oppose paving if the
costs are too great"
1t is understood that the council
will pass the ordinance and call for
bids. The plans and specifications
will be drawn by the city engineer
and estimates of cost made. If the
bids are too high the property owners
can protest and stop the work of
paving, but the district will have been
formed and the premininary work
done and when paving becomes
cheaper the streets can be paved. 1t
is thought that no company would
care to bid on the paving of the
streets in this district and that no
paving will be done unless other dis
tricts are formed. No company would
care to establish paving plant here
for so small a job as B and Hayes
streets.
IL is Interesting 10 KNOW tic COSL
per foot front of paving that has been
done in Moscow. 1t has been esti-
mated that the cost of paving B and
Hayes streets, under present prices
would be somewhere between ST and
$40 per foot for the abutting prop
erty. This is regarded by many prop
erty owners as prohibitive. 1t is
about 100 per cent greater than the
cost of paving already laid in Mos
cow. Mayor Gibson furnished the
figures on paving in four districts in
Moscow. They follow:
Polk street, splendid job, cost
$3.85 per front foot. Jackson street,
which Councilman Anderson says is
probably the best job of paving in
Moscow, cost $3.50 per front foot.
Deakin, also an exceptionally fine job
of paving, cost $31O per front foot.
North Main street, from the Idaho
Hotel north, with much deeper base
and heavier paving than in the resi-
dence districts, cost Sd per front foot.
Eight dollars per front ft. for paving
B and Hayes streets would be 100 per
cent higher than the heavy paving of
North Main street cost the property
owners and it is believed that owners
of property in the B and Hayes street |
districts will not consent to pay any I
such prices when the cost of labor
and everything else is declining and
is likely to decline much more. But |
the property owners seem satisfied to |
go ahead with the formation of the |
paving districts and to await further
develOn ants on the cost Of DavinU