The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-15

sanitary rules and quarantine wrestled
with the Salt Lake City brewery sew
age problem, There was an array Of
witnesses on both sides of the question
which all unanimously agreed should
and could only be settled by a sewer.
but just how to build it, or who was
to pay for the building of it was the
issue
Everybody. including the brewery
people themselves, agreed that the.
brewery sewage that seeped down over
the hillside and into the water bitches,
communicating the water and smelling
towel, great distances, was d
great nuisance But the brewery pays
taxes and license and by all rights, as
admitted by the city officials, the brew
cry people should demand that the city
build sewer, and on top of the de-
mand compel the city to build the
same, yet the brewery people don't
seem to want to push matters as the
council could and would retaiiate TO the
brewery's loss: hence Mr.. Moritz ct.
al. are ready and willing to do all they
can to abafte the nuisance.
The proposition in a nutshell is to
build sewer from the brewery west
to the State road. The property own
ers are not unanimous along this route
to stand the expense and the city has
no money, and the brewery is not
building sewers for the city at pres
ent and does not contemplate it in the
future.
Again the Fort Douglas cesspool
proposition confronts the city fathers
in conjunction with the brewery nuis-
ance, and considerable quibbling was
INDUCED in as TO whether it was wise
to build a sewer, costig $4,000 clear
through, Of sufficient capacity 10
care for the entire sewage of the
district traversed by the same, or to
build little four-inch tile pipe affair
from the brewery alone. 1t is not ex-
actly edifying to see intelligent men
sit down around a table and talk to
no purpose for two hours over a pure
~ business proposition that has also
in it the health of hundreds of citizens
and their families, when it is shown
by Health Commissioner Daily and
proven by Mr. Brooks of the Troy
liens to be necessary to build a sewer
and not soap-bubble castles as to ex-
pense; and, as Mr.. Brooks says, 81
can't for the life of me see how it is
that it has not been attended to before
this. If not fixed soon we must simply
die from the cause of it."
Mr.. Moritz admitted that the brew
cry had some wooden pipe in the
ground now, but that it was rotted and
bursted into uselessness.
Mr.. Brooks of the Troy laundry said
that his company had put in its own
sewer when their plant was built,
knowing that if they did not they
would become a. nuisance and be COM
planned Of when it was purely the city's
business to have sewers in the streets;
however, a penny-Wise and pound
;. -s-4.- IT, Il,
as has been the character of Salt Lakes
for years up to the present writing,
was worse than a colicky baby to han
die, so they put in a sewer for self
preserva ton, but were now menaced
by the brewery.
Mr.. Mcmillan thought he saw way
to an outlet of the simple but to them
perplexing problem, and that was to
put in wooden pipe at cost of 20
cents a. foot through the eight BLOCKS
to State street
It was finally decided to draw their
committee pay without concluding
anything and submit all the matter to
the open council.
The Hncl1stands.
The committee on streets agreed
that the hackstand problem was one
entirely too deep and thoroughly
minced a one for any sane man or
men to attempt to fathom and un-
ravel. A petition to abate the out
rageous nuisance existing at Walker
Bros corner was taken up 1t had
behind it all the troubles that are in
volved in the numerous cases thrown
out of the police court every month.
It is well known that hickman can
not make a stand anywhere on the
streets without the sanctiop of the
property owner abbuting said stand.
The hackmen all pay for the privi-
leges When they drive off, another
hackman drives in his place and
stands until the first one returns
again, and then there is trouble. The
police make arrests and the cases are
thrown out of court for want of iu-
risdiction. The committee concluded
that the only solution to the dilemma
was to have the city attorney draft
new ordinance making it compulsory
for all hacks and other vehicles Of
hire to stand at some specially desig-
mated spot. such as the vacant space
on the corner near the old city hall.
If this be done. some such regulation
as there is in all cities will have been
accomplished.
Public Grounds.
The committee on public grounds
were busy over maps and plats and
diagrams, trying to fathom what was
meant by Walter K. Perkins bid for
purchase or lease of ground in Emil
grafton canyon above the brewery ana
near the old pumping station. Mr..
Perkins claims he wants the land be-
cause it contains good quarry which
ne wishes to commercially operate.
Captain Young is of the opinion that
the land in question contains not only
building stone but very valuable Itho-
graphic stone. The exact location was
sketched from the map and the crowd
will be Investigated and Mr.. PERKINS:
case will be disposed of according IN
the returns as to building stone ar
photographic stone, the difference IN
price being about $40 to the cubic foot
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