The City Streets Are Now Bottomless Mud Pits

Much complaint is being made by the business men at the present condition of the principal streets of Walla Walla. Many of them are almost impassable and in many places it is nearly impossible for a team of horses to pull an empty wagon through the main thoroughfares of the city. A portion of Alder between First and Palouse is in a most deplorable condition. As a farmer who came to the city yesterday and drove the street with a load of produce put it, 'it was clear over the axles of my wagon and my horses almost mired out of sight.' One of the leading merchants of the city, in discussing the subject, said this morning, 'Something should be done by the city to improve the streets, and it should be done at once. It is deplorable that a city the size of Walla Walla should have no better streets than the country villages. There has been enough work done on them and sufficient money expended to give the city the best streets of any place in the state. They have been macadamized sufficiently, but the trouble seems to be that they have not been properly looked after. The mud has been allowed to accumulate until almost every principal street in the city is simply a mud puddle.'