The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-26
THERE IS WORK IN
PLENTY FOR ALL
No Man in Zion Need Be With
out Employment, if He
Wants 1t.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT OF
ALL KINDS BEING RUSHED
Nothing Like II Ever Before
Known in This City of
the Saints.

Up to the first of August of the pres
ent year more public improvements
were completed in Salt Lake City than
during any entire year in the history
of the city. and when the work of the
remaining four months of the wear is
added TO that completed up TO the first
OF August the record of any other wear
will be nearly doubled. The improve
ments include the sewer extensions. new
water mains, cement sidewalks, street
paving, curbing and guttering and
macadamiZing. The improvements were
wanted by the taxpayers of the city
and the American administration lost
no time IN giving the people what was
wanted and what is generally conceded
must be accomplished before Salt Lake
can hope TO attain the growth that she
is striving for.
standing with the progressive cities of
the West this vast amount Of municipal
improvement that has been in progress
during the past year has been instru-
mental in the making of an era of
prosperity that has never before been
known IN the history of the city
! through the large number of men who
have found steady employment at ex-
| ceptlonally good wages.
Beginning with the Big Cottonwood
conduit and going on down the line it IS
found that between 1000 and 1900 men
| have found employment on city work
| most continually since last January. On
| the conduit z. j. Moran kept a force
of from GOO TO 700 men busy up until
the 10th of August, when the conduit
was completed. From that time until
September ] 25O men were employed
J on the construction of the spilway, and
at the present time $50 men are en-
| gagged ~ the construction of the intake
of the conduit. In addition to the men
| employed l26 teams were kept busy on
| the conduit, the average pay being So. %
a day for the men and $40 a day for
| teams. The twenty-one blocks of as
| phalt paving now in course of construc-
| ton by Mr., Moran will furnish employ
meDt for about 600 men and 125 teams,
the pay averaging about the same as
on the conduit work.
Contractor s. Birch, who has the con-
tract which was let this year for the
construction Of cement sidewalks, is
employing $50 men and twenty-five
teams, the pay averaging 1926 day.
| The Utah Fireproofng company,
which had about twenty-five miles of
| sidewalk TO construct this year, has a
force of about seventy-fve men en-
ployed, the pay averaging the same.
In the construction of the Salt Lake
& Jordan canal, Hanley G. Ritchic en-
! ployed seventy-hve men and fifteen
teams, the pay for the men averagin~
| $3.50 day. The same firm is now en-
gagged in the macadamizing of Sixth
East street and will have a force of
thirty men and fifteen teams engaged
in the work for several weeks, and also
in constructing the concrete bridge
across City Creek, which viii require
| Il force of fifteen men,
In the construction Of the lateral
Nature OF Work and Contractor
Recasting and setting cast iron gutter plate
| Machine company 4.
Filling Parley's creek, canal across Fort Do
tion-D. w. Harmon & Co.
Breaking down rock in Pascal quarry-Wt
c'p.ay sot.p.ny * w pr.i
Construction Of lateral sewer-James Kenne
| Construction OF cement sidcwalbs-S. Blrc
Construction Of fre station No. SO. Chytl
Construction OF concrete culvert for Was
Construction of concrete in Liberty park-W
Paving First South street from West Temp!
Paving State street from Fourth South to S
South from West Temple to Second East
Paving East Temple from Fourth South to
Paving Second South from Third to Tenth
Macadamizing Sixth East from South Tempt
! ley 4; Ritchie .............,
Macadamizing First street from \ to J-P.
| Ll9chudUIZlDS second street from Saiyou II
street from South Temple TO Second
Repairing all paved streets-P. j. Moran
Repnving intersection OF East and West Te
and Second South streets-P. j. Moran
Construction OF curbing and guttcring-S.
MocadomiZing Twelfth East from Second 10
| ran ....a.s.s :...'' .-.' .
Constructing cross walks-Andrew Burt
Constructing water mains by water depsr'n
ContTacts OF 1905
Big Cottonwood conduit. j. Moran.
Jordan and Salt Lake canal conduit-I1anle
Gravity outlet sewer-Jnmes Kennedy.
lntercepting sewer and pumping station
Constructing water mains--P. j. Moran.
Constructing water mains-P. 7, Ford.
Constructing pipe sewer-P. p. Ford
Constructing cement sidewalk-Utsh Fireprc
Furnishing steel and iron for Big Cot,onwc
Iron Works company. ...... .,.......
Furnishing steel reinforcement for Big Co
Lako Hardware company. ...... -....
Furnishing fittings for pumping station-U
and supply company .....,.. .......
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