The Chandler Tribune. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Official Paper Chandler and Lincoln County
CHANDLER
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PAVING IS^ ORDERED
Nearly Four Miles of Streets to be Paved
in Chandler—Work Will Commence
Immediately—Machinery Has
Been Shipped from Calif.
Chandler, Oklahoma, Friday, July 9, 1909
No. 19
Tbe greatest development
boom in tbe history of Chandler
was launched by the City Coun-
cil last Tuesday night. It is
nothing less than the paving of
nearly four miles of city streets.
The paving of 8th street be-
tween Steel avenue and Price
avenue and of Manvel avenue be-
tween 5th and 6th streets was
provided for by ordinances pub-
lished in other columns of this
issue. The balance of the streets
to be paved, provided a protest
is not properly presented, is as
follows as evidenced by the fol-
lowing resolution:
Wheneas, The resolution for
the pawing of numerous streets
does-not set forth the width of
said streets and it being unnec-
essary as required by law and
an extra expense should it be
done, and
Whereas, The absence of the
knowledge of just what expense
the Council proposes to incur
upon the property owners, we
deem it advisable to set forth
what we think is necessary and
give the property owners an op-
portunity to make such sugges-
tions of modifications as they see
proper to do;
Therefore, Be It Resolved,
That it is the intention of the
City Countil to cause the streets
to be paved with Petrolithic
pavement as follows, subject to
any changes that they may see
proper to make upon the sugges-
tion of property owners:
Manvel avenue from the north
side of Sixth street to the south
Sixth street from the east line
of Manvel avenue to the east line
of Allison avenue, 30 feet;
Allison avenue from the south
line of Sixth street to the north
line of Ninth street, 20 feet wide;
Ninth street from the east line
of Manvel avenue to the west
line of Iowa avenue, 30 feet wide;
Iowa avenue from the north
line of Ninth street to the north
line of Eighth street. 20 feet
wide;
Eighth street from the east line
of Iowa avenue to the east limit
of the City of Chandler, 20 feet
wide;
Dewey avenue from the north
line of Eighth street to the north
line of Fourth street, 20 feet
wide;
Fourth street from the east
line of Dewey avenue to the west
line of Bennett boulevard, 20
feet wide;
Bennett boulevard from the
north line of Eighth street to the
north line of Third street, 20
feet wide;
Resolved Further, That the
papers be requested to publish
this resolution in order that the
property owners may be fully
advised as to the intention of
the Council.
The paving is to be what is
known as Petrolithic Paving and
is formed by mixing and press
ing the natural soil with asphalt
oil. The earth road is first
graded and thoroughly pulver-
ized and mixed with the asphalt
oil and then thoroughly rolled
with a ten ton roller. The street
A REQUEST TO THE PROPERTY
OWNERS OF CHANDLER
I would earnestly request that the lot owners of
our city cut and burn all of the weeds on their lots, in-
cluding the alleys and streets adjacent to their lots.
As the hot weather is here, we should take this step in
order to protect the health of this city, as well as to
have a more cleanly condition in and around oar prem-
ises. Remember that filth breeds contagious diseases
which result in loss of life and property.
We will have some distinguished visitors in our
city during the month of July: also the home guards
will be here for a short time engaged in their annual
target practice and we should show them and others
that we have some pride in the cleanly condition our
city. Then lets us all spend a few moments each
morning and evening during the next ten days in clean-
ing up our property, thereby making our city more
beautiful as well as more healthy. A word to the wise
is sufficient.
’i ours for better and more cleanly conditions,
J. A. McLaughlin, Mayor.
BIG SAVING FOR CO.
Some Facts and Figures in Favor of Perma*
manent Bridges in Lincoln County-
Each Township to Receive its
Pro Rata of the Bonds
---------—.........a wu rouer. xnestreet
side of Thirteenth street, 56 feet j is then surfaced with crushed
wide; j rock and asphalt oil and rolled
Eighth street from the west thoroughly. It then becomes
side of its intersection with Man- exceedingly hard,
vel avenue to the west line of Mr. P. M. Speiclier, who has
Steele avenue, 56 feet wide; been sent here by the Federal
Price avenue from the north
side of Ninth street to the 9outh
line of Seventh street, 56 feet
wide;
Ninth street from west lino of
Steele avenue to Price avenue,
30 feet wide;
Tenth street from west line of
Manvel avenue to the west line
of Steele avenue, 56 feet wide;
Steele avenue from the north
line of Tenth street to the north
line of Fifth street, 30 feet wide;
Steele avenue from the north
line of Fifth street to the north
line of Third street, 20 feet wide.
Sixth street from the west
line of Steele avenue to the west
line of Blaine avenue, 30 feet
wide;
Fifth street from the west line
of Manvel avenue to the west line
of Blaine avenue, 30 feet wide;
Blaine avenue from the north
line of Sixth street to the north
line of of Fifth street, 30 feet
wide;
Blaine avenue from the north
----------me .federal
Government to aid in road build-
ing, who is qualified by years of
experience after a practical edu-
cation in road building, who has
overseen the building of roads in
many different states for the
government and who will lend
valuable assistance to Lincoln
county in the construction of
hard surface roads and concrete
and steel bridges, says, in an-
swer to a letter from H. M.
Johnson asking about the advis-
ability of using petrolithic pav-
ing, that it is unlike brick or any
other paving and that it actully
gets better with age and use.
He says that he has inspected it
after 8 years use and found that
it showed no signs of wear.
It means that Chandler will be
the best paved city in Oklahoma
and that with sewerage, splendid
waterworks, natural gas, and
electric lights that no town can
offer more inducements to the
modern home builders. It
means that real estate will more
BOND ELECTION
IS POSTPONED
Opinion of County Attorney and Emery A
Foster That Records are Incomplete-
Election Will be Held Later
Board of County Commissioners,
Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
Gentlemen:
Complying with youn request we have examiner! j
in the office of the County Clerk in reference to bridges withTview
of asemtammg whether the records of the office is sufficient to jus
tify the issuance of the bridge bonds should the voters of Mie
county authorize the same. We do not believe that the records a e
complete enough, nor do we believe you will have
bfctween now aud July 13th to complete the™ », they should “e
°"r '■ Ml* .you postpone the election , „
records can be made to comply with the requirements of iL u
in order that the bonds may be readily sold and tint h "
have the benefit of the fullest competition in the sale thereof 'and
th« new notteegmug number and toeuiion 0( bridses be
Respectfully,
JOHN J. DAVIS,
County Attorney.
EMERY A. FOSTER.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRAISED,
Dr. Geo. F. Flaherty, who has
charge of work of tick eradica-
tion in this county on the part of
the Federal Authorities, paid our
board of County Commissioners
a high compliment in conversa-
tion with the Tribune man last
Thursday. ln fact he did not
stop with the Board but after
eulogizing them said that he had
met the most progressive people
m Lincoln county of any county
in his experience of federal work
for three years. He estimates
that the cleaning of the county
of ticks and putting it above the
SEWER BONOS
AGAIN SOLD
City Council Disposes
of Bonds at Meeting
Wednesday Night.
feet wide;
Manvel avenue from the north
line of Fifth street to the north
line of Fourth street, 30 feet
wide;
Fourth street from the east
line of Manvel avenue to the east
line of Cleveland avenue, 20 feet
wide;
Cleveland avenue from the
north line of Fourth street to the
north line of Third street, thence
northeast through the City Park,
feet wide;
Blaine avenue from the north means that real estate will more
line of Fifth street to the north j than double in value in the next
limit of the City of Chandler, 20 year.
The paving work on the three
blocks provided by ordinance
will commence soon, as the ma-
chinery has been shipped from
California.
Too muclKcannot be said in
praise of H. M. Johnson, who
made a special trip to California
to inspect this paving and who
is the best authority in the state
on matters of road building, bar
ring experts sent here by the
Federal Government.
ft also proves that Chandler is
a progressive town with a pro-
gressive Council.
Chandler is now assured of a
sewerage system.
The bonds have again been dis-
posed of and all the tecnechali-
ties have been remedied.
The contract has been signed
and the work of putting in the
sewer system will begin as
quickly as arrangements can be
perfected.
John Nuveen & Co., of Chicago
whose offer was $97 on the $100,
was refused,
The Oklahoma Bond Company
of Guthrie through their repre-
sentative, Fred Hoyt, made a bid
of par, with accrued interest and
to furnish bonds. They were
awarded the contract.
Paddy B, Sheriff Martin’s pac-
er, took second money in the 2:10
pace in Tulsa Monday.
Clint Embry was in town from
Kendrick Wednesday.
f o ,7 above the
He thinks it will take at . can borrow money at 4 per cent
Judging from the expressions
made by those who are inclined
to oppose the issuance of the
proposed $204,000 bonds for
building bridges, such opposi-
tion seems to spring from three
causes:
First, prejudice against bond
issuance of any kind, due to ex-
perience in other states of rail-
road and other bonus bonds and
unwise handling of the bond is-
sues;
Second, the feeling that in the
expenditure of the money that
would be derived from the sale
of the proposed bonds, If issued,
the different parts of the county
might not receive their just
share or fear that some locali-
ties might be favored at the ex-
pense of others;
Third, fear of graft in con-
nection with so large a deal or
doubt as to whether the commis-
sioners can and will handle the
proposition practically and eco-
nomically.
Nearly all objections heard
will come under these heads.
No one should be blamed for
raising questions concerning
this or any other public busi-
ness; no one should be asked
to give his approval to a
a proposition without having in-
vestigated it; but everyone
should investigate in order that
he may be fair with himself and
and other tax payers of the
county. A proposition that can
not bear investigation must be
shady and the advocates of a
proposition who are unwilling to
explain it are open to suspicion.
On the other hand questions
raised should be candid and hon-
est and answers should be given
due weight and credence. The
difficulty in this campaign is that
there are so many voters to
reach and the means of getting
to them are limited. There are
no candididates for office going
around over the county at their
own expense in the discussion
of the issue; and there is no fund
out of which even expenses can
be paid for chose who would be
willing to give their time to mak-
ing clear what is really a matter
of great importance to the inter-
ests of the whole county; what
ever is done, therefore, must be
done as a matter of individual
enterprise and at individual ex-
pense.
Despite the unfortunate ex-
perience of many people with
bond issues such methods of se-
curing funds for public work
are necessary, especially in a
a, new country. It is not a good
business proposition to pay for
the permanent improvements of
county with money that is
He thinks it will take at least a
year to complete the work.
DISTRICT COURT
There will be a session of the
District court held in the court
house in Chandler next Monday
and Tuesday. Judtfe Bowles, of
Perry, wili be on the bench.
Several Chandler boys assisted
the Stroud band in furnishing
the music for the celebration
last Saturday,
borrow money at 4
with which to make these im-
provements. Moreover, it is not
a matter of justice that the en-
tire cost of permanent improve-
ments should be taxed up to the
taxpayers of today when the
tax payers twenty-five years
from now will be enjoying equal
benefits from such improve-
ments. Without bond issues
there would have been few re-
spectable school houses built in
Oklahoma and safe and sub-
stantial bridges are not far be-
hind school houses as public ne-
cessities. When studying about
the proposed bond issue ther®
are really two questions asked:
Is the proposed bond issue for
something that is needed?
Are the people assured of get-
ting their money’s worth?
If these questions are an-
swered in the affirmative the
voter should support the bonds.
As to the second question it
may be answered that it will be
necessary to trust the county
commissioners to deal fairly.
There is no other way to con-1
struct these permanent improve-
meats, and the past record of the
present county commissioners
justifies absolute confidence in
their integrity. They have
pledged themselves to make an
equitable distribution of the
money, giving each township its
pro rata part according to its
assessed valuation, and in ad-
dition to this giving each town-
ship its pro rata part of the sur-
plus coming from incorporated
towns and other corporations.
The people in several townships
complain about not receiving the
bridges desired by them and
are disposed to think that the
commissioners have not dealt
fairly with them. The records
however show that the county
commissioners have made as fair
a distribution of the money as
could be made. The facts are
that it costs a large portion of
the levy to repair old 'bridges
and few new bridges have been
installed for the past few years.
If the bond issue is voted and
the money made available the
voters will see that tho commis-
sioners are absolutely fair in
their intentions and that each
township will be treated alike.
As to fear of graft or distrust
of the business ability of the
county commissioners is a mat-
ter which is not entitled to much
consideration, as no act of the
present county commissioners
justifies such unfair .and unjust
criticism. If the $204,000 bonds
are voted a competent engineer
will be employed to construct
the bridges and the contracts
let to reputable bidders, giving
every contractor an opportunity
to bid on the work. This is the
law and can not be avoided. Ev-
ery citizen will have an oppor-
tunity to observe the official acts
of the commissioners, and the
remedy for any questionable
steps can be quickly and effect-
ively applied.
Under the present system we
are facing a bond issue anyhow,
sooner or later. A year ago
there was a deficit of $5,000; this
year a deficit of $10,000, next
year $20,000, aud so on. At this
rate we would sooner or later
have to issue bonds to take up
this deficit or else we would have
to make a direct tax upon the
tax payers, and yet we would
have nothing to show for the ex-
cess tax except the same old
bridges. “A stitch in time
9aves nine.” If we expend some
money now for bridges we will
save hundreds of thousands of
dollars and have better bridges.
If the money that you pay for
your part of the bridge tax is
worth 4 per cent then you should
vote for the bonds. If you would
rather have cemer.t bridges than
wooden affairs, vote for the bonds.
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Smith, G. A. The Chandler Tribune. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, July 9, 1909, newspaper, July 9, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc915041/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.