The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-04
CEMENT WALKS
WORTH 100000
Part of Improvement Record of
City Administration.
TROUBLE ON BRIGHAM STREET
GREAT WEST SIDE EXTENSION
PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR.

When the first year of Mayor Rich
ard p. Morris administration of the
affairs of Salt Lake City closes Dec.
81, 1904, it viii leave as one monument
SlOO 900 worth Of cement sidewalks laid
during the year. This is more perma-
nent sidewalks than We're laid in ten
years previous TO the installation of the
present administration. These side
walks are, with few exceptions. six
feet wide ard four inches thick, made
entirely of concrete and Portland ce-
ment.
Some idea of the amount of work that
is being done by the city administra-
tion along this line may be obtained
from the statement that before the
close of the year 125 city blocks Will
have been furnished with permanent
sidewalks of the kind described above.
This means sixteen miles of sidewalk
or approximately $1,000 linear feet.
The cost of the sidewalk is borne by
the owner of the abutting property
The street intersections are taken care
of by the city. The cost is $105
foot making the total cost of the lbs
blocks $50 600. This figure does not
include the work done by the city in
the way Of retaining walls. One such
wall on North Main street cost the
city $500. Including these items the
total cost of the sidewalks built dur
ing the year is brought up to $100,O 600.
Most Extensive Work.
The most extensive piece of sidewalk
work undertaken during the year is
that embraced in sidewalk extension
So. This extends from Brigham street
TO Fourth South and from Second East
to Ninth East. All the streets within
these boundaries running east and west
and north and south, exclusive of the
streets previously paved, are to be sup
piled with sidewalks. making approx
| mately eight miles Third South to
Ninth East, including both sides of
the street. was placed under another
contract. On the west side of the city
the most important piece of work done
was on West Temple street. carrying
the sidewalk to Ninth South on the
west side OF the street and 10 Eighth
South on the east side.
Trouble in the East.
In establishing the grades for the
sidewalks in the eastern part
of the city is meeting with some
trouble. When the matter of paving
Brigham street was decided upon, 1t
was agreed that the sidewalk grade on
! Brigham street would not be altered.
! This agreement is now coming up to
plague the city engineers office and
! litigation is liable to result. W p No
BILE, whose home is at II and Brigham
streets. fled a communication yester-
! day in the Office of the city recorder,
making charges against the city engi-
neer's Office. In constructing the side
walk on II street, il was necessary to
eXcavate TO meet the grade established
by the engineers. This excavation at
the intersection of H and Brigham
| is three feet six inches below the Brig
ham street grade, and this descent Of
three feet six inches is made in 165 feet
on II street. To make a connection at
the corner, therefore, it became neces-
sary TO put in steps leading from Brig
ham street down to II or to cut Brig
| ham street down TO meet the + street
! grade. The latter plan was adopted.
| Brigham street was cut down for dis
| lance of twenty-five feet back each
] way from the junction. but this made
| a grade of IA per cent, and leaves a hole
over three feet deep I'm which water
| will accumulate, as there is no means
of outlet
Mr.. Noble Files Protest.
Against this Mr.. Noble files a vigor-
4 Gus protest as he argues that it de-
stroys the beauty.of his corner and sac
rifices a row of fine box elder trees.
| In the document flied with the recorder
| Mr.. Noble, who was in the east when
| The work was done, says:
1 I'm this work I have hapD orreaf1V
damaged in my property and rights of
property-and l hereby demand the con-
ditiOn OF said ground and my property
be restored at once and that 1 be paid
such damages as 1 have sustained"
On another poilt the complaint made
| BY Mr. Noble says.
This communication would not have
been necessary but for the deception
practiced on me by the city engineer S
office, for il I had not been misled by
the Office as to the nature of the work
| intended to be done at the place indi-
Gated 1 should have taken legal steps
to restrain and prevent the same"
Similar complaints come from First
South street where deep cuts are being
made, throwing the sidewalk on the
| cross streets far below the grade of the
| sidewalk running east and west. The
citizens hold that the sidewalk grades
should follow closely the topography OF
the ground and that no such heavy cuts
and fills should be made necessary.
Big Work on West Side.
That the work of the administration
in laying sidewalks has been popular on
the whole is indicated by the fact that
already plans are on foot for even more
extensive development along this line
next year. Sidewalk extension 20 is the
most ambitious yet undertaken. 1t is
on the west side of the city and is ex-
pected to cost S12l. 235. The boundaries
I Of the district are South Temple and
! Ninth South and Sixth West and the
Jordan river. All the important streets
within these boundaries are 10 be sup
piled with sidewalks on both sides of
the street. If the scheme meets with
/ the approval Of property owners i'm the
district and of the city council. In this
! district there are 121.235 feet of side
walk 10. be built and the cost 10 the
property owners is fixed al 81 per linear
: foot. Steps have already been taken
in the direction OF providing for
laying the sidewalks in this district.
but nothing viii be done in the way of
actual work until next spring IL is
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