Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-16

Work already completed by the Morris
administration, and to increase useless
~ IN thickness the portion Df the con
quit still incomplete, as well as TO
change its shape. Time and CON
stant flow OF water have shown that
the portion at first constructed has
stood every test fully as well as the
newer portions with the extra inches,
ana moro than that. Moran has his
100000 for extras while the peoI,e paid
the bill who now are asking whether
this same little coterie of councilmeli
We're with him when that were with
MIN later when the paving business
was steered his way.
BONUS OF $4,000
The game was played through a re-
commentator from the city Engineer
that the changes" in design be made
to secure qualities already amply pro-
vided for
Then there was a little matter of d
$4,000 bonus for the contractor, in addi-
ton to the fact that he already had
pretty good thing, this little item being
handed 10 him for claiming that he had
rushed the work through before a date
set for final completion. The people
asking whether his little band was
faithful through this trying demand
for money, too, and whether their faith
fulness was of quality with that
shown in the clerical error" in the
request for bids on the business dis
trict paving, and the interlined record
of the east First South street matter.
Then, too, there was an AlcatraZ paw
ing matter away back in the days when
Moran was getting his first lessons on
monopolizins Salt Lake roads and wat
erways. With rumors flying thick and
fast that settlement with the Alca-
traz people meant 81 600 for each coun-
Gilman voting for 1t, and report from
the city attorney declaring that the
city's case was good and invulnerable,
sun certain patriots stood Loyalty for
the settlement and they too prove to be
closely allied with the ring conspicu-
Gus on Second avenue matters and
east First South street asphalt
WATER STILL. TNBOUGHT.
There was a purpose when the ST.
oOO,O bond issue was voted, of getting
the water. with this money, primarily.
ana Eerfecting the means of distrbu-
ton later. When the Norris admins
tration went out of power its negotia
IONS for water We're incomplete. Yet
over half of Big Cottonwood had been
bought, and offers had been made for
control of the bitches controlling the
other half. No money since that time
mas gone to the buying of water, yet
1t is all exhausted and the city's rights
are only half as inclusive as 1t was
inltlueu 10 make them. Forty thou
sand dollars. it was specified. would go
to building a power plant on the water
power at the mouth of the conduit and
although all the money is gone. there
Is no sign of the work ever having
been undertaken 5000 900 was to go to
increasing the flow of the canals from
Utah lake by dredging in the mouth of
the lake, and widening the canal intake,
This work was never touched, and yet
the 100000 is as completely absorbed
as if it had never been voted
GOSHEN'S TELLING BLOWS.
The question of administering city Of
noes has gained prominence since Rev
MI Goshen spoke. The fact that two
morning papers gave distorted reports
OF II made 1t difficult at first to see
Just where his points landed, but as
the public has become aware of the real
purport of his charges and of the fact
they tended to develop that p j. Moran
is really the center of an asphalt ring
and that its circumference includes men
who should be watching the interests
of Salt Lake instead of the asphalt pro-
duct 1t buys people are taking a good
deal more notice.
One conclusion Is universally ex-
pressed. 1t is that as long as certain
officials can prevent 1t there will never
be work done to open the city's asphalt
mine to substitute the California pro-
duct with Utah product of any descrip-
ton, any more than there is any hope
OF +. j. Moran's building a macadam
road that would turn out to be any
thing more than an advertisement for
Moran's asphalt through its total fail
ure to satisfy.