HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-03-02, Page 7.f1"747:71"....!..'"" HOW. MUC}I A
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l'z'rePairati°oat' iuf.otar store that ILL INION LAYt..going s prepared by ourselveii goes •
Out with a guarantee: that 0: ;
••, it will satisfy. the . Mier.
'Wo cannot say. .
lttenta� because we., do not this ahPut ' THE EXPERIENCE, OF OTHER 'TOWNS 'Ili
r now. encu h about them. !'• „ •
flux own preparations we •' . ` .._:,...� .. . .
• ;know all about. We know .�.• what tiles conal n, how they I Information Gathered by the St. Mary's
r lief and know theeatisfaction •
i they have .given our clastoin. _ its Oitizens,. but whioh will Apply o) •
•ars. . • I •
:' : Compoalxnd . ,
:. i I]C'a3rl. PiUi0 • ,#
• • ° THE EXPERIENCE OF INAEi well drained, solidly laid , roll
• . are guaranteed 'to give • SOLL. tamtied thoroughly when da
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satisfactory results.; They : Ingersoll, tint., Deo. 12, 1898, wake a firm bed for Ghe' walk.
be With good aue4 : _ have .lc laid. late in the, season' or
i cess whendfun down from.o areteuatere ted umthe road tm vedment feather. Dgn't have the grade
• • question. I have, taken considerable Bove wPut the walks ht b e
tilling.g
�, any cause• They are health •: .interest in it 'myself. This town way. to'ne or iter. slush, etc., to' dra
, - • ,builders, blood purifiers and •. the first in Canada• to take. up •• silloa� ••Sod wehf ours have peen laid tc
• • 1. and we,have learned by ex erien
• nerve., tone. . l'hey may be • barytto stone sidewalk construction. Th contractors o P 1 a
• • • In 1889 w deputation from the town a ntr s g t : grace 1
• used by young Pr. o)cl Qf eith- • p mile trona the work, air 3 lioer
• , er s• x in'all cases a llervous� • council visited Detroit to inspect, some•bemires p
xo
• n s • sidewalks there ; and their 'report was .tens moo the cost of laborTis atio
l .. • nese, weakness, disease _po strongly in favor of rhe ailfoa-barytic half the net Dost of the work
• from over work,•' mental • material thatthe neoeseary by-law was
'r,vvo• passed and a section of 'Thames street, The uses• a macadam Ddone h .00 Ir
• they ao not satisf tithe and
• the principal business street, was done 2,900 eq yards of excavating tri
••. y y • on both sides that aame fail. dhe work. `cobble stone curbing, 1,133 sq..
• nothing'.: • gave such good satisfaotion that • other 930 ft, of sewer pipe, orushin
• • walks were laid from. year to year,"till spreading rolling with 134o
• •. now we have about. fourteen miles of q yards of m
• SYDNEY JA��(SON it --the finest walks I ever saw. In 1896 roller, of !#,38'1 s .
A ' Gradua`te`Druggisf• •• 'we. bean on a section of macadam: b total oontraot price, X3,519.
•. Successor to Allen& Wilson Phone 2' • day labor, and :it was se good that'a by-. done.;
e • 1 cannot get at the toot of
• ••••••••wel••••0•e•aw•ao•0• law was sulrsequently.;passed; appropri• , tions dans by day labor, but
acing $10,000, by del•entures, : for more 1
a that it J
macadam.
ett of To onto being , the,conts. '.penalisive and.eless satisfactory
tractor in 1897. / to hire a'steam roller.. •
•• This past summer another •`section It will pap to' have a oo,.
• �o MANY. •, wee done by thecorpo/rationemployoes, graded, aneer nd a Boom stend to t
•• �, day labor.• lhelcorporation; owns a' watch the progress of the•
•• road . grader, low, 'stone crusher,
•• t The.onty fault *alma
•1i, �( Q screens,and a vve=ton' roller. . Stone walks- is they ere. so smo
�• T�#ANi1LV was•boght. }roan farmers at, $2.50 and
e . $3 a cord, stored on vacant late, '•and , prots ted: within �curbiin The • e
• the crushing plant placed thereon fbr g'
• co venrenoe,,.: • . ,• is Qo,be.done acroes•the�
Our experience has been that it is far card oe,of a Silicadon
more .economical and satisfactory to let Ontario, and can con
the work be done by a; competent con• mend this °lees. of work, k,
tractor, We propose doing more next to do op thats wank,
the ProperproGeeK and
year.
their v
. The town.bus a' population of: about. ed be so go -id. We. r
5,000; assessment, $4421;555'; •rate of' 'of silicai.barytio gutter
taxation, 214 mills.;consolidated ..debt,- wide , also ccobble stone
general Lind school; $148,283.77. . wide. The formeeis ride
• We began building• Concrete. irrano. • latter•ls_•'not, laid proper
*,tithio or silica-barytic sidewalks in 1889.
enough,:It ought to oo
The old plank walks were expensive to where horses are standing
keep in •repair, soon got 'hose, rough ' ' yours ,most respecttu
and . dangergtts,• •and the people de-
manded: better':permanont sidewalks
• and were ' willing to pay for 'them.
There was not, much •agitation. The
matter was presented fairly to the pub:
iic.and soon the walks were commenc.. ' $itriooe, Nov. 28th, 1898
ed. The work hasby the been done � pear Sir; —I am in receipt of your
frontage_•tax system, a by-law having favor of the "24th' inst ' If • your town
.:been -passed by the. electors.. 'All the• contemplates the putting :down- of any.
.sidewalks belle:been dor e'.by Contract, considerablequantity of concrete walks
first at. 20e. per s uare and later at q
q� foot, in the near future, I would strongly ern-.
17c., 15o ,. and now •at.12sc., on account vise tbe'sending away of a small special
of improved. methods- 'in construction. . eorninittee of intelligent men wh bave
Tho -.co oration aid'for extra fillip $ l
P_ P. g, given some thought .to the general clued -
but ordinary grading,. etc.;. was done by tion of improved roads and walks, to
the. contractors. •visithalf a dozen towns that have 'done
At filet Otto Guelick .of Detroit had somethin" along i
contracts. .Subs' uentl.'`..':ho sold' an; S ep11 nes.
q y �a,t'ar, Simco' hie little to boast of
interest to certain citizens -of this town in the Way of roads, but persons lam-
and,they formed the present••:company iliar with the subject .place us'-: first.
now doing large contracts • every .season . • afoot* towns • under 5,0:30. 'inhabitants,
through:• Western Ontario.,, Wm. Ewart 'in the matter'of Welke,,:
is secreta, and Waiter Mille, mayor of A tont of investi ation: