Committee Named to Complete Organization of District.
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This story appeared in the May 21, 1926, edition of the Lewiston Tribune.
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A well attended meeting of property owners at the Presbyterian church last evening voted unanimously to favor street paving and the city council will be petitioned to organize an improvement district, have the engineer prepare plans and specifications for four kinds of pavements, secure bids on these pavements and permit the property owners to make the selection of the pavement to be laid.
The committee to complete the organization of the district is composed of J. M. Gilmore, E. W. Lutz and John E. Nickerson and the district proposed, last evening embraces Seventh avenue from Prospect avenue to Tenth street, Tenth street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Sixth avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets and Ninth street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The petitioners will ask that plans be prepared and proposals received for bitulithic concrete, asphaltic and tarvia pavements. It was estimated the district proposed was represented at the meeting by 80 percent of the property owners and the view was expressed the matter will be moved along as rapidly as possible to secure the laying of pavement before winter sets in.
The meeting was addressed by H. J. Doolittle representing the Hargraves construction company. This company is interested in tarvia pavement for residential districts. Mr. Doolittle was en route to Spokane from Boise where he closed a contract with the state highway department for five miles of tarvia pavement on federal aid state highways in the southern part of the state. The state and federal highway departments are trying out the tarvia pavement for highway purposes and selected three units for the test, one being two miles near Rigby, another is a link of one and one-half miles near Downey, and the other is one and one-half miles near Burley.
