The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-25
NEWER SALT LAKE
NOW IS EMERGING
Record of improvements Accom-
pIished by the American
Administration.
CITY STREETS TORN UP:
CONTRACTORS ARE BUSY
List of City Improvements Made
and Those Now Under
Way.

Have the people noticed that Salt Lake
City is somewhat torn up at present? 1t
would be hard not TO take cognizance OF
the fact that the contractors are pretty
generally in control OF the streets. This
condition OF affairs did not obtain until
the American administration came into
power. There was not enough done IN
the way of public improvements before
that to interfere With the pedestrian in
The slightest. OF course there Is an out
cry about II ALL There are those who
prefer the good old days when four-horse
teams would stick In the mud right on
the business portions OF Main street, and
when 20 cross from one side of the street
to the other was an adventure. Those
were the days when the old board side
walk was all Salt Lake had, and this was
generally full Of holes and dangerous.
Yet there are people who prefer those
days, and there are even newspapers
be tearing UP of the old streets before
new ones can be made. From one hand
comes an outcry against the unsettled
condition OF the streets. and from an
other howl that street improvements
are being unduly delayed. The papers
making these outbursts lose sight, pur-
posely. OF the fact that there never were
any improvements worthy of the name
until the American administration began
20 make a modern city out of Salt Lake.
Do the people know that there Is more
than obtained in any ten years before the
American party came into power? Wen,
spandd spia Is me GaS All over @ }as city are
have been laid. Water has been extend
ed 20 ali parts. There are asphaltum
psvenlents where before was mud and
plenty of it. There are handsome curbs
and substantial cutters. There are good
crossvalks. One must admit, II YOU sit
up and take notice, that much has been
done IN the direction Of making this
metropolitan city. end that more is IN
progress
Million for improvements
The city administration spent q million
dollars last year in very much needed
work. \ similar amount Is being spent
this year. perhaps more. And II has all
been dore in the face of the most viruent
and unGerhanded opposition. No method
has been too small OF contemplate for
the Mormon elders quorum 10 adopt for
the sake of hampering the American ad-
minlstration. When these methods failed
z Smoot Legislature was called upon to
help. This succeeded only In DELAYING
and complicating matters for a time. but
even this has beer overcome. Now a
period Of filibustering has been entered
upon.
One can see it az every Council meet
sng. Every move OF Fernstrom. Wells
and their colleagues is in the direction
Of delay. They never want 10 facilitate
on the surface, for they are plausible
fellows, these. But they have overacted
their roles and their object Is thorough
Back OF these obstructionists are the
opposition newspapers. These are out
with ell sorts OF outcries. One day IL is
they cry that everything is being given
70 Moran. and again that contractor are
dissatisfied and want 10 quit. Still again
they howl Of delay And vet everybody
fnn hat r1a Sc .-ril
along. Even II the stories now being
printed Ia the three Mormon controlled
papers were true, the administration
would be still many laps ahead OF its
predecessors in the matter OF accomplish
nent Though they say that the city mas
no money. yet the city is somehow man
done than the elders did In all their years
OF control
People are learning 10 take all these
statements at their true value. They are
learning the difference between a clean.
modern city and an overgrown country
village. They are quite ready TO put up
with streets torn UP for while in consid-
Grafton OF what is TO follow. The city
Is keeping pace with the times and
thinking citizens know it. and know TO
whom the credit is due
Work Going Forward.
There is an Immense amount of work
going on Just now. 5. Birch. one Of the
contractors has just completed $4,000 Of
work. cleaning up on his last years con
tract about the city. He has completed
curb and gutter extension No. l, which
and Second South. the cost Of which WAS
sl10o. He is almost through with ex
tension No. of this class OF work, from
South Temple 10 Seventh North. at a
cost of $4,000, and he has completed
curb and gutter extension No. 3 on the |
alphabet streets, from Brigham to First
all this. he has done much work left
over from his last years contract
J. w: Percival has a big blanket con-
tract for water main extensions this
takes in extensions all over the city.
Never were there so many extensions as
are now being put in. Some OF these are
GOOD sized ones. comprising additions and
plats on which houses have been built by |
real estate dealers and others for sale. |
Quite number amount To five and six |
the city not already supplied. citizens |
are asking 10 be brought Within reach OF /
the city water and they are being ac
commodated as fast as possible.
Percival has competed his work on
water main extensions l4S, LA and 146,
which cover Fourth South, Main and
paved with asphalt Extension 143 cost
s5235 so; 142 cost s6e47. and extension
li5 cost sl2.57265.
Then z. J Moran has a contract for |
laying new water supply mains with iron |
pipe running In size from Sc TO II inches |
made necessary by the extensions this !
,
and Will be worth much more than that |
70 the city to have II done This work /
is well under way. The excavating is all
done and the pipe is going into the
ground. In q week or two more It will |
be all III and out Of sight,
Building Of Sewers.
Then there is the matter OF sewers |
They did not amount TO much In the old !
days. Now they gradually creeping |
al over the city and keeping pace with !
Zion's remarkable growth. James Ken
nedy has contract for pipe sewer on |
the alphabet streets extension 176. This
liz costing $50, 900 He is also doing work !
on his last years contract on Main street |
from Fifth to Ninth South street. cost
ing Approximately $4,000. Biggest job
OF all In this line. ne is putting in The |
new tntereepting sewer from Eighth
North TO Eighth South along Eighth West
and up Eighth South 10 Main street
This. is a Ave foot circular sewer and is
admittedly a fine piece OF work. II Will
cost when completed sl5o.0oo Already
four or Ave blocks have been completed
this year, and SO far this year for the
work Kennedy has been paid SIS 900.
p. j. Moran has most OF the contracts !
for sidewalks and paving extensions this !