Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-06
HALL HAS: A PLAN
ON SAVING MONEY
Resolution Proposes to Assess
Corner Property Owners
For Improvement.
AUTHORITY IN STATE LAWS
Under Present System the City Pays
For intersections and Attendant
Construction-Iylcr Loses dob.

To assess the entire cost Of grading.
filing, culVertlng and otherwise i'm
proving. repaving or repairing streets
at their intersections against the sur
rounding and abutting property, is the
purpose OF a resolution introduced in
10 the city council last evening by
Councilman l.. e. Hall, of the Fourth
precinct.
The resolution, as originally drafted.
provided also for the curbinp and gut
tering of the street intersections at the
expense of the property owners, but
after some debate the words curbing
and Euttering We're stricken out.
The resolution, which is based upon
section 216, chapter 10, revised statutes
of Utah, which gives the council the
option of paying half the. cost OF tho
grading for sidewalk or street paving
and bearing the entire expense for the
intersections, or of assessing the en-
tire cost against the abutting proper
ty, is calculated to save the city much
money, and make the owners OF corner
lots feel that their property Is a great
deal more valuable, or at least more
expensive, than it formerly was. The
matter went over a week for the pur-
pose of allowing the city attorney to
investigate the constitutionaliy Of the
proposed resolution.
THE RESOLUTION.
The resolution, as amended, is us
follows:
Resolved, That hereafter the city
engineer be authorized and instructed
TO include cost of grading, filling, cul-
verting, or repairing sidewalks at their
intersections in the levy against the
abutting property.
Owing IN fhE larpa MN, ba,
tests against the Utah Light g. Rail-
way company erecting its poles inside
the curb on the north side of East
First South street, the company was
instructed to cease erection Of poles
altogether until the matter is adjusted.
Councilman Black wanted to give an
other hearing to Patrol1nan j. T.. Tyler
who resigned some weeks ago on being
taken In conduct unbecoming a police
IMAM, but which was not acted on ,ln-
til after election" The police and
prison committee recommended that
the resignation be indorsed, and Mr..
Blacks motion was lost, to /.
WANTS a NEW BRIDGE.
The petition OF Addison Cain that
a bridge be built across the canal at
First West and Tenth South streets
was referred to the city engineer for
an estimate of cost. Petitioner says
he will furnish the labor IL the city
will furnish the materials.
The matter of the petition of the
Brigham Young association that water
for maintaining the lawn around the
grave OF President Brigham Young be
supplied by the city was on motion laid
over for another week.
The waterworks committee made a
report recommending snat the city fur
nsh water for the state penitentlary
providing the state pay $1,762.17, al
legged to be owing and due for water
for the prison for the years 1905, 1906,
1907, and 1908. The report was adopt
ed. The state has ten days in which
to accept or reject the proposition.
The hoard ne rubl'c works was au-
thorized to advertise for bids for the
construction of new bridge over Jor-
dan river on First North street at a
cost Of approximately $4,000.