The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-08
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
The Sewerage Question Again
to the Front.
LAYING OF THAT SIDEWALK
The Spirit OF Improvements ia in the
Air - What Will the
HarVeAt Be?

A brief item in Saturdays HERALD
told that the Council committee Cd
sewerage had reached conclusion and
adopted the pipe system. Naturally
enough it cannot be ascertained what
the full nature of the report will be; but
this much may be relied upon def
nitely, that the committee will urge the
necessity of immediate and decisive &C
ton. 1t is probable that the fire district
will be made the sewerage district, the
bounds of the one constituting the
the boundaries of the other. To sewer
East Temple Street, West Temple Street
and the State Road, will involve an ex-
penditure of perhaps $3.50, 900, bat this
will include also the intersectiug
thoroughfares. The impression pre-
walls also, that, beyond doubt,
East Temple and the interesting
streets will be severed the present
summer, in order that that street may
be paved at an early date, and that an
additional expense may be avoided
This work will involve an outlay of
$50 900 to 100000, and will give work to
a great many persons.
This matter. with the proposed laying
of sidewalks and cutting up of blocks,
gives evidence of the spirit that ami
o;f
long delayed, must be undertaken.
This feeling is gradually crystallizinga
and as 1t does, 1t will bear fruit in
works that are the outgrowth of the
public desire. The beginning of work
by the City Council is the very best
evidence of the pressure of public SEN
timent.
There is also disposition on the part
of the City Council to take decisive
steps regarding the water mains.
Scattered about the city are number
of dead ends of mains, Ia which there is
no circulation. Moreover on given
streets there are parties who wish the
water mains extended, and parties wn,
do not won't them, and those who do
must advauce all the money citizens are
required TO advance, or go without the
water. This is not d. emed altogether
fair. And it is not unlikely that the
city will pick up It's dead ends of mains,
extend them in different directions,
complete the circulation, and make the
property sbutting share its proportion
of the cost necessary to the work.
Regarding the laying OF a sidewalk
along South Temple Street, there has
been, anoug those who will be called
upon to put up money for the work, but
one opinion expressed to any represen-
tatiye of this journal, and that opinion
is favorable. TIE only objection seems
to come from the committee to whom
the subject has been referred. There is,
however, a variety of opinions as to the
material that should be used, and as to
the width. Cement seems TO be specially
Objectionable. II is held to be inferior
and it is an imported article, the last
being a fatal objection. Stone is ex-
pensive. but is preferable even at the
increase in cost, because OF durability,
and above all. because it abounds here
and is home material.
Alderman Sharp is of the opinion
that asphaltum, well laid, is not
only genuinely serViceable, but is
certainly the most inexpensive and
can most readily be repaired.
feet wide. leaving two feet on the fence
lines and TWO feet on the outer edge OF
of the sidewalk for shade trees and the
like. Properly laid, if will be washed
clean by every rain and can be kept as
well and cheaper, perhaps, than any
thing else that can be found. If an
effort be made to secure the asphaltum
at Thistle, and the effort prove success
full, better asphalt sidewalks can be
found nowhere else in the world. The
product will be home one; the indus
tries of Utah be maintained, and the
best kind of a walk, money considered,
will be secured.
Mr.. George Crismon is an advocate of
the rock that is to be found in bound
less, quantities up ParIey's CANYON,
aboutfour miles from the mouth. Water
may run over it Indefinitely, and it will
not soften It may be worn and ex-
posed to the sun, and there will be no
dust. If the Salt Lake & Fort Douglas
railroad were run up TO that point, the
rock could be laid down in the city at
trifling cost, and its use would be gem
eral.
AS will be seen, there are some diff
ferences, but these are as to the materi- |
ais OF which the sidewalk shall be made. |
and as to the width, but not as to the |
ACCESSIBILITY of laying the sidewalk. |
There is a reason to believe that a de- |
cided majority of the Council favor the
doing of the work, and that, while they
may differ as to stone or asphalt, or as |
to different kinds of stone, they will not |
favor gravel.
: The spirit of improvement is in the |
air. Much is looked for from the |
present City Council. 1t was
elected with the idea prevailing that it |
would inaugurate improvements of a |
public nature. 1t would ill-become any |
committee, under these considerations,
and in view of the general desire of the |
people interested, to report adversely |
on the first subject on which definite |
action is taken.