The Railroad Gets Its Street Vacations—and Newport Gets a New Grade

The ordinance granting street and alley vacations to the I. W. N. was signed by Mayor Appel, and its publication in the Miner today makes it effective. Now that the last obstacle in the way of the company's work has been removed the streets and crossings will be put in the same good condition as has already been done on the Idaho side of town. There will be no ragged, edge disfiguring cuts when the work is completed.

At the request of the I. W. N. the street grade on Fourth street has been changed so that both sides of the street conform, which is a great improvement. The company will now go ahead with its plans for parking the depot grounds and the building of a driveway to the baggage room. A sidewalk will also be built along the north side of their depot grounds.

The Great Northern steam shovel is still working on the cut to take out the curve in the east end of the yards and another trip through will be made by the shovel. Sunday morning a crew of men with horses and scrapers started the work of lowering the main line track, making a cut of three feet near the Jones warehouse which tapers down to about two inches at the west end of the depot. The dirt moved by these teams is being used to fill the pot hole just north of the depot, which already presents a greatly improved appearance and entitles the Jim Hill road to a credit mark.

New ties are being laid but the steel gang which is laying 90 pound rails has not yet arrived here.