The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30
NOTED
IN PUBLIC WORK
Favorable Weather Will Mean
Completion of Nearly All
important improvements.
TWO JOBS HANGING FIRE
WORK DRAGS ON NORTH BENCH
AND INTERPRETING SEWERS.

If the good weather continues for
another two months it is expected that
all the public work contemplated for
the year and now under way can be
completed on time with possibly two
exceptions.
The exceptions are sewer extension
No. lS6 on the north bench and the
outlet pipe and pumping station for
the intercepting sewer. The firm of
Davis & Heuser has the contract for
the north bench work and agreed to
finish il by Oct. 81. A two months
extension of time has already been
asked, but not as yet acted upon by
the board of works and ii now begins
to look as If the job could not be
finished before Feb. l next.
The most trouble has been expert
enced In putting the interceptiong sew
er in shape for use. In order to do
this the outlet pipe connecting IL with
the gravity sewer must. be completed
and the pumping station installed. The
Campbell Building company, which is
laying the pipe, should have finished
on Aug. 26, but the work is not much
more than half done and new difficult
ties are being experienced each day.
AS for the pumping station the pits
for the pumps have been dug. the bases
installed and work begun on the cree
ton of the station proper. The pumps,
however, are not in and the council
has not even decided upon what motive
power shall be used in running them.
At the best it will be an expensive
proposition.
Power for Pumps.
According to L. c. Kelsey. city en-
gineer, the pumps can be run mosl
economically with a gas-producing en-
CINE. With this device it will cost
about $40 day. year in and year out
or $4,000 a year. If gas is purchased
from the Utah Gas and Coke company
it will be somewhat more expensive
and electrical power would cost at
least $4,000 a year.
One of the advantages which will
ensue after the pumping plant and out
let pipe are finished is the completion
of the sewerage system in the south
western section of the city. James
Kennedy secured the contract for this
work in 1886. but as these laterals
empty into the intercepting sewer he
Will be unable to start until that is
completed. The contract involves $780,
coo and covers territory in which the
citizens have been loudly demanding
some relief from the present unsani-
tary conditions for many months. NJ.
O'Connor. Kennedy's representative
here, says that as soon as the pumps
are working he will begin on his job
and rush IL through as rapidly as pos
sible.
First South Paving.
P. J. Moran is pushing his paving
work and has already completed Fifth
South from Main to Second East and
First avenue from A to streets. He
is now ar work on First avenue and
hopes to have that done before snow
flies provided he can induce all the
property owners to agree to the Cali
fornia asphalt. But few are holding
out for the Utah product, and he feels
confident that they will sign a release
in a short time. If they do not, at least
two of the blocks will be closed for traf-
fic all winter and part of next sum-
mer. The rest of the job can easily
be finished this year. Fifth East
street has also been paved with asphalt
from South Temple to Third South.
Next year it is proposed to pave
Third and Fourth South streets as far
as Tenth East and all the north and
south streets between South Temple
and Fourth South and Second East
to Tenth East.