The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-02
QUORUM Of ELDERS
ACTS UP IN COUNCIL
DO Everything in Their Power
to Obstruct City Improve
ment Work.
NOW THEY ARE AFTER
THE PASC0E QUARRIES
On Monday the Streets Commit
tee Will Make an In
SpectioD Tour.

There rs no end to attempts by the
quorum of elders in the city council
to delay street improvements For
more than year they have been rak-
ing up all sorts Of schemes to hamper
the administration. The recent lsgisla-
ton of the session of the Legislature
served their purpose and now that after
great deal Of trouble the city has
found way to proceed. they are forced
to adopt other expedients-sll in the
direction of daily.
1t is pretty safe to bank upon a
colored gentleman in the frewood when
Elder Wells of the Seventies and his
colleagues bring in a proposition re-
sPecting city work Their latest scheme
If adopted, would condemn the product
of the Pascoe Stone quarries At this
quarry, +, j. Moran, contractor, at tn,
city's instance has invested approx
mately $4,000 which would have TO be
paid him if the city abandoned the
quarry.
resolution was presented at the
last meeting of the council condemning
the lime rock taken from this place,
which was referred to the street com
mittee. At the meeting of the com
mittee Friday evening Elders Wells and
Tuddenham supported the resolution,
bringing forward some property owners
on First and Second avenues to object
TO the use of the stone on that street
Some of these say that they were being
made to further the scheme Of tho
Mormon elders and dropped out, stat
ing that they were willing to have
asphalt or any stone that would make
good paving.
City Engineer Kelsey, who was
present, said that there was no better
stone than from the Pascoe quarry,
and p. j. Moran also said that the
stone was as good as any to be had.
I. r. Black took the others to task
for saying that the paving Of Sixth
East had proved failure. He thought
the work there as good as any macadam
paving.
w. J, Tuddenham objected decidedly
TO any further use of the Pascoe rock
in city work, as also did Elder Wells.
The latter introduced G. f.. Angel, who
gave the committee a talk on silicIous
rock and kindred subjects. He repre-
sented the Mellen Lime & Supply com
pany. which has quarry in Dry canyon
beyond the big GU" Of tho univer-
sity. He claimed to be in a position to
furnish the best lime rock for macadam-
iziug purposes in the country, and TO
have made an exhaustive study of the
subject.
Elder Wells wanted the work of i'm
provements on First and Second
avenues re-advertised and changes made
in the contract, This, however, the
committee did not agree to do, but con
sented TO visit the quarry in Dry
canyon and to look over the work on
First and Second avenues as we'll as
the paving on Sixth East which Wells
and Tuddenham claim is an absolute
failure. They will meet for that pur
pose at the Wilson hotel on Monday at
2 o'clock and make the trip. 1t may
be stated that the intention of the com
mittee other than the elders is to agree
to nothing that savors of further delay
on street improvements.
The committee agreed TO accept from
Colonel Daggett 40 square feet of land
north Of the reservoir in exchange for
a like number Of feet at South Temple
and Thirteenth East.