The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-09

| p4 OAlilldtt pldCc WliClC piuAiiSN VI build home. He felt that this would be highly advantageous to them since it would open num- Der of potential building lots on the Hegstead property, and that it would benefit me by giving me ac- cess to the site of my new home the year around, which was not available by any other possible route.
 The Hegsteads furnished the land for the road, while I agreed to pay the cost. We felt, however, that the City could well afford to con- tribue something, since, CD the road would be public; @ the project in- cluded deeding by me to the city of approximately 2500 square feet of property for road purposes; and t3) my new home would produce substantial tax revenue for the City. We asked the City Council if they would surface the road and supply material for one culvert, as their share, which they agreed to do.
 However, trucks hauling dirt from the excavating preceding construc- ton tore the road up so badly in the spring of 1948 that additional surfacing was required, which was done at my expense, so the City was not even called cn to pay all of the surfacing costs.
 Incidentally, some of the dirt hauled over this road was dumped into the front yard of Woods legal adviser, MT. Mclean, at his request, entirely free of charge. l To date my costs on this road have run over $500 Estimated cost, s250) The City contributed the cost of surfacing which amounted to about s100. The City will gain title to 2500 feet of property and have the use of much more than that amount again over the Heg- stead property. The City will also have substantial new tax revenue from the Improvements on my property
 Your readers may wonder why was willing to spend this much money for road. The savings in hauling building materials over this road has offset most of the cost, and in addition I have gained a good permanent access to my property. Thus it was a good proposition both for me and for the City.
 It might interest your reasers to know, also, that own another lot in the Scatter Tract which I pur- chased about ten years go. and that at the present the City is using good 1900 feet of this lot as a street, too, without any cost to the taxpayers.
 The parking area to which Wood refers is wide spot ir the road resulting from the removal of a substantial bank of dirt at the end of the road nearest my property This dirt, as is customary in road 1 building, was moved downhill, not uphill, which resulted in what Wood calls a parking area. There is room to park there it is true, just as there is room to park in front of Woods home. If anyone has mental picture of this road being super highway, let him go up and inspect it; it's open to the public at all times.
 The City has sanded this road exactly once since snow fell last fall, and this was late in February At no time have ever requested the City for sanding The City has sanded up as far as the home of Woods legal adviser more often than that, although it is outside the City limits.
 Two times this past winter when the snowplow was in the Scatter Tract, it did not have time, appar- ently to go up on the new road One time I hired and paid for tractor to clear the road. while my contractor did so the second time, since he felt it was cheaper than tearing chains off his trucks trying to get up the hill over an unscrap- ed road. We knew that the City was busy scraping more important roads.
 l Actually, City snow removal equipment has made trips to the home of Woods legal adviser when it did not continue to my property, although the road to my new home is merely an extension of the road that leads to his home. On at least one occasion they even cleaned off a section of his private driveway, although he is outside the City lim- it's and pays no taxes to the City on his property.