The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-25
PAVING
STILL UNCERTAIN
County's Offer to Pay
Part of Bill Up to
Property Owners
$4.82 LINEAL FOOT
Part County Pays Is What
Original 18-Foot Roadway
Would Have Cost

Efforts OF both county and city
officials 10 get the 3,000.toot strip
nf road on Norih Peoria At present
tho only gap in "a lOmile hard
surfaced road, paved eliminated
Yesterday when the board OF county
commissioners proposed property
ownors 10 pay part OF tho paving
cost. The county. through the com
mselonors. made an offer 10 paw
t4.S2 q lineal foot of tho entire cost
Of the ioh.
hut the property owners, whose
protests and Injunction suit Ia dis
trlct court. have effectively prevent
,d tho paving Of tho imphssahle
Wrlp OF road, were slightly hard
boiled" and uncertain Rs to wheth-
rr to accept or reject the boards
offer In fact, rs one OF the COM
missloners remarked, II seemed hH
N tho property owners wanted the
street paved. providing they didn't
nave to stand any OF the coe.
Postponed untii Monday.
About one hundred property
owners damned tho commission
room and through their attorney
L. II. Pratt. argued with the com.
missioners. the city attorney ana
othor city offig>Rls who had gath.
cred for tho poW WOW. out OF which
Il had hoped would grow n COM
promise that would result In tho
immediate paving Of the strip of
road. But The property owners, un-
certain as they were, after short
counsel with their attorney, asked
until next Monday to think the
proposition over. Tho county com
missloucrs agreed to leave their Of
ter open until that time.
The strip OF unpavcd road OK
tends from Admiral north to tho
southern end OF the sklatook hard
surfaced road. From Admiral
south To jerks Is paving. ana with
In the next few weeks the husd-
surfaced road will extend to Bixhy.
That will mean paved road from
the northern to the southern coun-
" boundary except the strip i'm
mediately north Of Admiral. AZ
present the road is practically Inn
passable and to get to the Skiatook
road motorists are forced to either
detour east to Utica, then north a
milo and west to tho paved road
or go out north Main and east. Roth
Of these detours are rough and
make tho Sklatook road the only
paving In the county which has
bad approach. All other pieces
uf county hard surfaced road are
reached on paved road
In 1913 when the present un-
paved North Peoria strip. which Is
exactly 3.il5 feet long, was out oi
the city tho county commissioner
let the contract for nm is-foot con
crete roadway--the standard coun
~ road--nt a cost OF t2.al n sauar,
yard Soon after this tho tract wa
taken into the city and due to 1
state Law which forbid the count,
pavine .ithin corporation limits
tho countys contract fell through
Injunction Is Granted.
Then after quite n hit OF agita
tion the city let the contract To-
3G-foot roadway with Curbing
cutters and storm sewers at a COS
of si4S n square yard, exclusive o
tho grading, which would boost IN,
cost about a dollar more a yard
Some OF tho property owners pro
tested and brought an injunction
suit preventing tho work, claiming
that the price was unreasonable an,
confsCatory At thst II was onl,
= !!t;!5 more than twice the COS
OF tho county job and called for
roadway twice as wide and witt
curbs and storm sewers, none q
which the county provided
The situation rocked along, thus
until about three months ago who
tho commissioners and the count
engineer sought n way to have tn
road paved. At that time the coun
~ commissioners offered TO pa,
part OF the { and at tho meetin
yesterday the missioners lai
their proposition before the proper
~ owners. The ooupty's offer wa
result OF an amendment to IL
state law, by which the coun,
could pave within corporate llmi
Y the commissioners saw 1T.
The countys offer OF s4.s7
lineal foot, or s2,4l square var,
Is Just what the original county
contract was let for This Off,