The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-25

Miscellaneous 80. 334 10
Total ..... -. -. .S2O5,O24 II
Assume that these figures are cor
rect, and that thesc expenditures
have been made: The agreement
was that $4,000 should be expended
on the first item. When the cost of
the City creek pipe line and the Sec
ond South street rain IS included in
the above figures, it will be found
that over $135.OOO has been expended
here instead of $4,000. Nearly all,
if not quite all, of this $135,OOO has
been expended under pipe-laying
contracts let to one contractor under
circumstances that have been the
subject OF much criticism.
The 100000 set apart for the pur-
chase of the water rights IN ParIey's
canyon was not quite all spent. But
what is the condition of Parley's at
this timel The Roach ranch, the
most obnoxious place in the whole
canyon, is still hourishing. 1t was
at this place that Geddes filed his
bottle in the last campaign, and the
place has not improved a particle
since: Roach demands $4,000 for
his place, so that the administration
Is just that much short of carrying
out its agreement on this score.
The $1O,66117 said to have been
expended for changing the channel
In the Jordan river near Utah lake /;
end the s9,14S.3G said to have been
expended for constructing a reser-
voir in Utah lake are absolutely lost /;
the work was all abandoned long
since, and the city has not one cents
worth OF value to show for the ex-
penditure. The $4,000 was worse
than wasted.
The Thirteenth East street reser-
voir, that was to cost $4,000. has. in
reality, cost S37, 1917, and a part of
this extra cost was incurred while the
board of public works and the city
engineer we're at loggerheads over
the inspector for the work. each in
sisting on having an inspector.
The statement of the auditor shows
that $3,114.93 was expended for
stand pipes for street sprinkling.
Not an inch of This pipe has been
utilized, and if 1T is in the possession
of he city. it is worth so much Junk.
as far as tho sprinkling system is
concerned
The sum of $1,43754 is said to
have been expended for the appro-
priation of the Big Cottonwood
water. The work started here was
abandoned and the money is lost.
The same Is true Of the gauging sta
ton in Utah lake. The pumping
plant for the artesian wells in Lib
erty park exists only in the imagi-
nation. The wells are spouting lust
the same as they spouted ten years
ago. Miscellaneous" in an expense
account is always like charity-it
covers a multitude of sins.
In not single instance from be-
ginning to end has the agreement
made with the people been kept. The
water supply has not been increased
on the contrary, the famine during
the past season was the worst IL the
history of the city. The cost of the
improvements in the distributing
system and the reservoir went very
far beyond the authority given
when the bonds were voted
! The sprinkling plant with water from
the canal was not established, and
the memory of the sprinkling of the
past season comes back to the people
like nightmare. The storage plant
was not established in Utah lake. The
only part of the pledge kept is that
which said the money would be FUSED
and spent"
And yet the people are asked to
re-elect the same men who have
broken faith and wasted the water
bond money to no practical good.
J