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7 Even now the people who said about water being on County Road B, I used to visit at the Golden Age Nursing Home and in the spring when there was a run off and the drains were frozen that water (inaudible) not run off and you're going to find that anyway in that area. I heard about them swimming at Har Mar and that was when we had four inches of rain within an hour. Anyway, back in 1954 is when Ed Wilmus had a road grader and he had bought property from Mr. Harold which is the property from Hamline to Pascal between County Road B and Burke. He bought property and he put in half a street so he could sell lots. He did the same thing on Eldridge. Now, my father put in his half a street on Burke in about 1954 and at that time it was just the way streets were made at that time and nothing has really been done since then. It was just gravel and tar, not even blacktop. When my father came to building homes on Eldridge we were already a village, but Roseville had a code by which streets were to be built and, too bad my father isn't living today because I think we'd have to carry both my father and brother out if they heard what he said about Eldridge. They said that half a street was built to the Roseville specifications and my father and brother argued with the Council and Mayor McGee that it was not. They said it was. My father lost out so he had some put in the north half of Eldridge from Hamline to Pascal to their specifications. He had to pay for the storm sewer which now exists and the street which now exists and it was engineered by the Roseville engineer. This was to be the beginning of the first permanent street program in Roseville. My father put the water and sewer stubs in all the way up on all 12 lots in the first plat and (inaudible) four lots. It all went the whole street so that street would never have to be torn into each time a house was built to disturb a permanent street. In 1976 when you had the street program you did not list it as a permanent street so I checked with Mr. Honchell to find out why. Roseville was out and we took samples. St. Paul Testing Lab was out and took samples. (Inaudible) I have a map from the people who took the samples, the addresses where they were taken. I have a let~r in writing from Mr. Honchell saying that according to the testing at the testing lab that it qualified for capacity of a 7-ton street. It does say there is some variance between both sides of the street, but what no one says is that after my father had his half a street put in, Rosevil1e again had to to and built the other side of Burke over an inch and some of the residents who live on that street say that's the only thing they (inaudible) I was told that Roseville has no records of this street in 1976. I think you need to hire me to keep records for you.