On The Right Road

The Street committee, at tlieir rneeting Saturday night, decided to purcliase one Austin Stone Crusher, rnanufaetured at Chicago 111., at a cost of $G50. ïhis crusher will have jaws 7x14 inehes in size, working on a triple motion ; the elevator is 20 feetlong and. the screen two feet in diameter by six feet long, with three varieties of screens sorting out the crushed product. ïhey also purchased the road roller manufactured by the Pitts Agricultural Works, of Buffalo, N. Y., at a cost of $2,950, havinfc a griaranteed weight of 38,850 Ibs., and il' it falla below this weight, it is to cost less. The city originally expected to be obliged to pay $5,000 for a roller of 30,000 lb. weight with a stone crusher of like capacity. This is a sa ving of $1,400 from the original figures, and is, City Clerk Mills tells us, $800 less than these machines have been bought by any other Corporation. Mr. Mills has also looked oyer tbe expenditures tor the past few years and finds that the sum of $7,000 on au average has been expended each year upon onr streets, and what lias the city to show for it? How much better are our streets uow than ten years ago ? And vet 70,000 have been expended upon tliem in that leugtb of time ! With these two machines our streets (in be so fixed that no paveinent will be so fixed that no pavement will be as good. This fact has been demonstrated in man}' cities, and when a break does come, it can be easily repaired, which is not true of any pavement vet inven ted. This action of the street committee is wise. The city has tlie money to pay for the machines, it bas streets sadly needingthe wprk they will do, and no better investment was ever made by any nmnicipality. There may be somc opposition now, but after one block of roadway has been made, and our people can see for themselves how excellent the result will be, there will be no further objections raised. They will all vanish in the air.