The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-03
TO PAVE
SIX MORE BLOCKS
Important Municipal Improve
ment in Contemplation.
TAXPAYERS WILLING
COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO
TAKE ACTION.

Another project having for its pur-
pose the extension of the paved street
area is incubating. The latest an
nOunced plan is independent of the one
to pave Second South street from First
West to the Rio Grande Western depot
and the project was preached among
the property owners on the streets 70
be improved at the same time that the
Second South street sentiment was be-
ing worked up.
The other streets proposed to be
paved with asphalt and stone blocks
are Third South from West Temple
to State, South Temple from West
Temple to Second East and State street
from Fourth to Fifth South.
Probably to no one is SO much cred
it due for working up the paving prop
osition as Councilman r. b. White
more has earned. He has interviewed
enough of the representative owners of
property abutting on the streets named
to give the assurance that only 3, small
minority of the front feet will protest
against the making of the improve
ment. The cOuncilman's energies have
been also directed to creating a. senti-
ment favorable to the paving of West
Second South street.
So assured is Councilman White
more of the successful launching of
the latest paving project that he will
offer a resolution at Tuesday evening )
council meeting directing the city en- =
gineer to report an estimate of the cost
OF paving and curbing Third South,
South Temple and State streets be-
tween the streets named before and
directing also that the city recorder
advertise notice of the councils inten-
ton to create paving districts cover
ing the streets mentioned in the resO-
luton and to levy the required special
tax on the abutting property to pay for
the improvement.
Bonds Not Necessary.
Councilman Whittemore finds the
sentiment so favorable to paving the
two blocks on Third South, the three
on South Temple and the block on
State street from Fourth to Fifth
South that he declared yesterday his
belief the abutting property owners
would not ask to have paving bonds is
sued, payable in ten annual INSTALL
mentS- In his opinion the majority are
ready and willing to pay the necessary
special tag as soon as it is levied.
a rough estimate by City Engineer
Kelsey of the costs of the paving and
curbing the streets in the same man
ner as Main street and adjacent
streets are improved places it at $13
a linear foot for half the width OF
streets, exclusive of the car tracks, COW
ering a strip of twenty feet. On this
basis, to pave Third South will cost
about S34. 900 For this district there
viii be no intersections to lay in stone
/ blocks at the city's expense. To ex-
tend the paving on State street one
| block farther south and to fill in the
intersection of Fourth South will cost
approximately $4,000 The abutting
property on the east half of this streeI
is owned jointly by the city and the
county and the cost of the improve
ment to be met by the public funds Will
| be about $4,000 for the county's share
and $4,000 for the city's portion, the
latter having to stand the expense of
paving the intersection. Sixty thou
sand dollars will about cover the cost
of paving the three blocks and inter
sections on South Temple street, and tC
this sum the Mormon church will be a
contributor to the extent Of about
| 500 600.