The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-18
PUBLIC WORKS
ARE INSPECTED
Mayor, City Engineer and Party
of Newspaper Men View
Various improvements.
COST OF ALL, S1,2OO,OOo
HOW AND FOR WHAT THE MON
Ely is BEING EXPENDED.

-Four newspaper men made a tour of the
public improvements being done in Salt
Lake yesterday morning as the guests of
J.. G. Kelsey, city engineer. Mayor
Thompson also accompanied the party,
which left in a touring car from the VIII
son hotel at $3.50 o'clock in the morning
All told, a distance of twenty-five miles
was covered and all were given chance
TO examine the 81, 20d, 600 worth of work
which IS the city is doing and which Mr..
Kelsey is directing.
Perhaps the most difficult piece of work
which was seen was the building of the
lntercepting sewer along Eighth West
street by j. P. Kennedy. This sewer runs
from Fifth North street, where it joins
the gravity sewer, to Ninth South and
Main streets, and is one of the largest
works of its kind ever attempted in this
section of the country. The total cost
will be $4,000. The work is being done
under the greatest difficulties. All along
Eighth West street water has been dis
covered after digging "a foot, and it has
taken the most expert engineering to cope
with it The soil In this section is sim
ply saturated and keeps filling the
trenches continually. In order to get rid
of it drain pipes have been placed over
and under the sewer proper, which IS
forty inches in diameter and made of con-
crete. The back filling system is used
to advantage on the work. This IS car
Iied on by means of an overhead railroad
and dump baskets, which are filled at one
end of the trench and carried back half
a block and dumped where the sewer has
been completed. This is a great time as
we'll as money saver, as it means that the
dirt excavated is only handled once
Will Drain Big Area.
According TO the city engineer this
sewer will drain a large section of the
western part of the city and viii permit
the digging of six-foOt Easements as at
present the percolating waters and mois-
ture in the soil will allow of but little
excavation work of this character This
i'm turn will make the property more valu-
able and more desirable from residence
standpoint
Each way from the big sewer lateral
lines will be extended which will drain
the country contiguous TO it. and will
spread out like a net work over the en-
tire district west of the tracks.
4 casual observer in going over this
territory would not believe that it is 50
saturated with moisture, as the ground
on top appears hard and dry, and there
is 10 evidence of water except in few
low spots where it has collected.
Another great work which was exam
iucd was the new water supply mains
which run from Mt OEvet cemetery to
Third West street along Fifth South
street. This work is being done by 2. j.
Moran, and it is on it that he is using
his eXcavating machine
Piping Water to City's Center.
Thirty-six-inch pipe is being laid from
East street and from that point the size
gradually diminishes to is inches at Third
West This main carries the water from
Big Cottonwood conduit and ParleyS
canyon to the business centre of the city
and is a direct result of the construction
of the conduit. It's capacity is 100000
gallons a day. The work is progressing
rapidly and the mains will no doubt be
all in by October l.
From this point the party went down
Second avenue, where p. j. Moran Is ma
~ -
ervatiOn This work is being pushed with
vigor and soon will be completed, nearly
all the excavation having been com
pleted. Moran is also macadamizlng
First avenue from \ 20 J streets.
The rock used on these streets is from
the Pascoe quarries, which are located
north of Warm Springs. II is claimed by
the city engineer that it is the best rock
for this purpose in this section of the
country. notwithstanding the agitation
against it which has been started by those
interested in a quarry IN Dry canyon.
When first laid the pavement is unstable,
but sprinkling carts are going over the
pavement each day, and this, 1t IS stated
with traffic, will eventually pack IT down.
Macadam pavement, the experts assert,
really does not become set until II has
passed through a winter. In paving Sec
ond avenue the steep grade leading from
Canyon road to a street is being cut
down materially.
and the work being done in preparation
for paving Main, State and West Temple
streets was also gone over. Moran prom
iseS to have all this work done before
snow flies.
The new garage dump north of Warm
Springs was also visited. This will cost
$500 and is arranged so that garbage
wagons can drive up on it and dump their
loads directly into the cars which the
Hamburger road will furnish to haul it
away.
When the party returned /. c. Kelsey
entertained its members at lunch at the
Commercial club.