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Fort Worth, Texas, August 8th, 1906.

To The City Council
of Fort Worth, Texas.

Gentlemen:-

I hereby respectfully suggest and recommend that the Coun-
cil comply with the request of the petitioners who ask for the
paving of Hemphill Street from Magnolia to the city limits.

Their petition has been on file since May 21st.

I am informed that the signers constitute all or about
all of the owners of property fronting on said part of said
street.

They offer to pay the full amount of the cost of the paving
in front of their respective properties, except that part which
would be paid for by the street railway company, to-wit: between
the rails, and for eighteen inches on the outside of the rails.

In making contract for this paving it should be done with
the proviso, or agreement, that the cost of paving the street
intersections should be paid for by the city, in one, two and
three years, or some such length of time. The same to draw
interest at a low rate, payable annually or semi-annually.

The large amount of money which these citizens are offering
to put into street improvements, fully justifies and warrants
the city, in assuming the cost of paving the street intersections
other than that part thereof which the street railway company
will pay.

The fact that there is necessity for the Council, so far
as possible, to refrain from incurring debts which call for cash
payments, will not warrant our declining to act upon the matter.

It would be shortsighted for us to reject this proffered
help towards a class of improvements which we so much need in
our city.

It is not proper or right to have a matter of this kind
delayed to argue and parley over the question as to whether another