The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-25
1T HIT THEM HARD.
The Herald's Sewerage Article
StirS Up the City.
PROPERTY OWNERS VIEWS.
Arguments for aud Against the Meas
ure-MaDy Men OF Many
Minds.

req not; tnOse 1aV0r.ng 1t smile IN the
sanguine expectation that it is fore
gone conclusion.
"There seemst TO b. no regard what
ever for the poor in this matter" said
Mr.. Angus NJ. Cannon, who is an owner
of property on South Temple Street. 81
ana opposed to it, and will fight it to the
end"
Mr.. GEORGE M. CANNON, the County
Recorder, declared: 81 would be in
favor of it, if knew where the water to
flush the pipes was coming from. Ii
will be a benefit to me and cheap
enough but the water is the problem
with me. If I were satisfied on that
score, would be in favor of it,"
ELIAS A SMITH, Probate Judge, did
not believe the pipes for the latera!s
were large enough. 81 do not prop Jose
to be compelled to carry my house
pipes twenty rods to connect with the
latersls, east or west, because they
have not put q lateral along North
lSiD Ac budL L i've
on will go against it,"
RECORDER WELLS said in answer
to query about case like
front of whose place no lateral runs,
that the Council would deal Justly and
that they would only be required to
pay fair proportion CT the expenses;
Mr.. Lowrie's plan was that property
owners on North Temple could connect
with their next neighbors-they would
not have TO go to the expense of run
ming pipes all the way to the streets
themselves.
THE HERALD did itself proud" said
Mr.. Westerfield of Westerfield & Girls
mon, and think that articles like that,
well followed up, will convince the IN
thinking of just what sewerage means
for the town."
People who don't want sewerage"
said Doc Nelden should live down
here and take an occasional look into
the back yard of the Walker House and
Cullen Hotels which run close together.
They've had so many cesspools dug
back there, that they've got force at
work prospecting for some place where
they can dig new one, but they can't
find place where cesspool hasn't
already been sunk. For years they
have been dug so close togethsr that
they all run into one, and now that
whole section is one vast underground
we'll of filth. 1t won't seep away any
more either. as the soil has got so i'm
pregnated that perculation is impossi-
BILE, and the stuff just stays there aud
the stencil rises to the surface.
Sewerage! Well l should smile"
r. MACINTOSH is wholly, soully and
in favor of sewerage.
G. V. WHITING, who represents several
rods on Main Street, sid-"Sewerage
is a necessity. Salt Lake will never
amount to anything without it,
JtHN MCDoNALD-"No, sir; shall
fight it, tooth and toe nail. Twenty
years hence will be ample time to talk
about sewerage. 1 have q cesspool
twenty four feet deep, and that will suf-
foe me for many years to come. Ii the
proprietors of the Walker House, Gull
len Hotel and Wasatch Block, want
sewerage, all right; let them pay for 1t.
l don't propose to help bear their bur
dens."
MARK MCKIMMrNs-"Wa sewerage?
Most certainly. 1t is only a question
of time when it will be an absolute ne
cessity, even if that time is not here right
now. believe in the construction of
sewer in the district embraced in our
diagram of Sunday"
Hon. JOHN w. YOU'VE said there was
no doubt that we needed sewerage, but
we needed water first and most. Some
simple and inexpensive method should
be adopted to dispose of it.
Said one prominent business man
"If could not have OBJ
tanned a copy of TIE HERALD of Sun
day without paying $40 for 1t, would
have paid the $40. | have got it pasted
in my book of reference and will keep
it -
CHAs. AUER-"Personally probably |
have no voice in the matter; the land |
On which my buildings are located is |
sral standpoint-from the standpoint |
Of the welfare of the community, am /
certainly in favor of it.
f. D. CLIFT-This gentleman, after |
several vain endeaYors on the part of |
The reporters, was finally run down.
He expressed himself as being most |
emphatic champion of the sewerage |
question, and ne is a heavy property |
owner.
Sundays HERALDs, containing the big
,ewer article, were gobbled up vora-
,iously on all hands, and the comment |
vas everywhere heard by those for and
against the plan, that this was the first
lime the hing had been put in shape
hat came home to you"
Opponents of The scheme deny that
nearly one half the property values in
he interested district is already COM
nitted in favor of the plan. Let them
10 sum in simple addition by looking
over the interviews in the Sunday HER
AID adding together the amounts as
sessed against those who expressed
themselves favorably and the result
will show. Figures can't lie.
Up TO last night no protests had been
fled with the City Recorder.
For the best plastering and building |