The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-10
KANSAS is PAVING
Many Towns Go Ahead With
Improvement Progress.
Some Not Paving Are Getting
Ready to Resurface.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 10.-Kansa!
municipalities are going right ahead
with their Identification and improve
ment programs and the work of paw
ing streets and alleys seems TO occupy
the most prominent place on all the
projects Reports from no less thar
20 kansas cities telling of paving pro
grams now under process of compile
ton or being contemplated were re
ceIved during October and made pub
lie here today by John G. StutZ, sec
retary of the League of Kansas NUM-
cipalities.
The paving fever" as Mr.. Stutz
terms this poplar kind of city improve
ment, has hit independence and the
Chamber of Commerce there is re-
ported to be investigating the propo'
sition of resurfacing the downtown
paved thorofares.
At Kansas city s2s7.OOO in internal
improvement bonds for street paving
have been sold recently. Great strides
are being made in completion of the
city's boulevard scheme
other paving projects reported dur
&ng October are as follows:
DouglasS-Contract for Z blocks of
brick pavement been awarded to OF
tawa contractors. Sixteen and one
half blocks of similar pavement were
let last winter
Fort Scott-LincoIn from Market to
Fenton viii be paved with 6-inch con-
crete. % feet wide. Eighth, Horton.
to Burke; Loman. Sixth TO St
Mary's; Horton, Eighth to Ninth. and
Andrick. Fourth to Sixth, will be
paved with brick.
Frontenac-Survey of the city and
estimate of cost of paving has been
completed by the consulting engineers
Tt IS quite probable that Mckay street
will be paved for one mile soon-
Garden City-Contract for paving
Jones, Main and Fulton will be let
soon.
Great -washington-12th to
18th will paved. Bids have been
advertised for.
Hays-Fast Normal will be paved
from Pine to Miner. The contract
for paving Miami street has been let
HO.sinEton-Two blocks on East
Sixth and one block on Third will be
added to the present paving program.
Hutchinson-The Sherman street
paving which has been held up so long
viii now be undertaken. The street
will be paved with street asphalt on
concrete base. Sixteenth. Main to
Monroe. and North Washington,
Fourth to Sixth, will be paved with
brick.
Larned-The council has adopted
resolution ordering the paving of
Fourth from State to Carroll
Leavenworth-The contract for the
paving of Shawnee from Eighth to
Zenith was let at $14.S6s.s0. Five hun
dred siXty-seven square feet along the
north side of Haymarlxet Square will
be paved in the near future.
mamma ttaIl--Ee eLlIioHS nave DeeA re-
ceived and approved for the paving of
Anderson from Manhattan to Denni-
son, and Manhattan, Poyntz to Ell
Paso: Petite. Manhattan to Seven
teenth; South Fifteenth. Poyntz to
Houston: Bluemout. Third to Fifth,
were ordered paved by the city COM
mission.
Marion-Two blocks of paving have
been petitioned for.
, Neodes - Contract for paving
Eleventh from Grant to Idaho was
let TO an independence contractor at
S1S.916.1O.
Newton-kaRsas avenue from First
street south Will be widened from 20
to 50 feet.
Usage City-F'ifth street, Market to
Holiday. and Second, Market to Holli-
day. Will be paved with concrete.
O-horne-New Hampshire First TO