The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-23

drainage be not allowed.
Third-That the city attorney be in
structed to prepare and present to the
| Council, at its next sitting, the draft OF
an ordinance providing for the assess.
ment of local tax for sewerlng the
strict shown, and designate in the
plans which have been adopted, and
prescribing therein the form and mode
of assessment to be based upon the pro-
porttonate benefits resulting to the
property tor which sewerage is to DC
provided.
Fourth That it be declared to be the
sense of the Council that as soon as
these and other necessary prelimInaries
are adjusted, the actual work of putting
IN the sewers be forthwith proceeded
with, and pending the commencement
of said work, ana until the Council
otherwise orders. that this committee,
with The Mayor associated, be directed
to continue its labors, and be author
lied to report to the Council from time
to time, such other further recommen-
dstions as it may consider essential to
this much-noeded improvement.
Very respectfully,
w. w. Ritter.
THOMAS u. WEBER,
w. S. MCCogNICK,
JAMES SHARP.
GEORGE D. PYPER,
Committee on Sewerage.
This means the expenditure of $780,
900 to $3.50 600 on sewerage alone in
Salt Lake City, during the approaching
summer, and is the best evidence to be
found of the determination of Salt
Lake City to keep up Nth the times.
At the session OF the City Council
held on Tuesday, 18th inst, Mr.. Nc
Cornick stated that, in view of the
great Importance of the sewerage ques-
ton, the city attorney, to whom the
matter was referred at The week-before
meeting of the Council. should draft an
ordinance, as soon as possible, and
sugge 'ted that the committee on sewer
age and the attorney meet and take
immediate action. 1t is, therefore,
anticipated that at the sitting Of the
city fathers Tomorrow evening further
and favorable progress will be reported
on this all-absorbing subject.
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS.
Already the work of improving the
sidewalks has been decided on, and true
to The HERALD's prediction, no sooner
has it been decided to pave one side
walk, than the people on other streets
will petition for the Council to direct
that work be done on other streets Also
At the session of the City Council
which adopted the report of the COM
mittee on sewerage, the following re-
port was submitted and adopted:
The COMMITTEES on streets, to whom
was referred an ordinance in relation to
grading and paving the sidewalks on
South Temple Street, from East Temple
to Eighth East Street, report that We
have given the matter consideration,
and recommend that the city proceed
to make the necessary arrangements
to have the north side of said street,
from East Temple TO l Street, paved
eight feet wide with rock, and the re-
lnainder of the width of the sidewalk
graded with fine gravel, and that tax
per foot front be assessed and collected
from the owners of the property 'front.'
ing or AUDITING on said street, to pay
the expense of such improvements, and
that the attorney be instructed to pre-
pare an ordinance suitable to carrying
these recommendations into effect.
Your committee is in doubt as to the
of paving the south side of
said street, and therefore report that
portion of the question back to the
Council without recommendation. We
are of the opinien that sidewalk i'm
proyements should be made on the
petition of a majority of the property
owners within the limits intended TO be |
graded or paved; and while reserving
to the city the right to order any side
walk graded or paved without petition,
we recommend that it be adopted as
the present policy of the city that all
applications for sidewalk improvements
be presented to the Council in the form
of petition.
Respectfully,
JOHN CLARK,
BOLIVAR ROBERTS,
THos. e. JEREMY, JR,,
]. FEWsoN SMITH.
Committee on Streets.
For a distance of one mile and over.
therefore, the worst sidewalk in the
city will be made to correspond with |
the residences along it, and be made the |
best. The citizens Of the FIRST street |
south of South Temple-First South |
alive to the advantages that |
a well-laid sidewalk will give, and have |
petition to the City Council |
to have that street also paved.
The only regret is that the work is not |
TO be done on South Temple Street,
from the Utah Central depot, but thers |
is no doubt, when the great advantages
that this new sidewalk will give to the |
along its way that there will
be request 10 have the other four
blocks similarly treated. Following
the example of the property owners on
South Temple Street, will be found
hose on First. Second and Third South
Streets. for on the First and Second
south Streets there is business, and on
Third South also; and they cannot at
ord to be outdone by a residence
street. which will take business be.
1ond them. Then the State Road,
Main Street and West Temple will re-
Iuire that good sidewalks be placed for