The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-15
This Is Decision Reached at
Conference in Office of
Mayor BransfOrd.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
AND MORE POLICEMEN
Increases in Salaries Will Not
Be Made During the Pres
eDt Year.

utF OF tNc current year ou'Sl'o VI 'HN
immense improvements ordered, there
viii be no more unusual expenditures
.his year, and some of the improvements
will be started this year, but not fin
ished until next. Neither will there be
any more increases III city officials sal
Orics this year.
These things were decided upon at
conference between the board of esti-
mates and appurtlonmcnt and the may"
or in the MAYORS Office Friday morning.
The board sat upon the petition of the
bremen. teamsters aud Jaultors ana
other city officers for increases in sal
aries amounting to something like $500
a year, but agreed to recommend the
granting If Police Chief Samuel VI. Bar
low 5 request for ten additional police
men, III view Of the fact that MANY moro
men than asked for arc badly needed.
Every proposed public Improvement
That can he carried out will he doue,
bot il is possible that some Of the lat
er improvements proposed Will have to
he merely started this year and finished
in 1910. Others Will he advertised, but
not started upon until next year. The
committee Went over the SITUATION care
Iully. both from n financial standpoint
aud tho standpoint Of the most good to
The city, and practically decided upon
tho improvements 20 bc carried out this
Year. The improvements selected to be !
done this year were decided upon, both
with view Of reducing the city's cx-
pcnscs and alording the most benefit TO
the largest number of persons.
The paving Of Ninth East street from
South Temple south 60 the city limits |
will be started this year. at least the |
work viii be advertised at once, but II |
Is doubtful if il will be finished this |
wear. The total estimated cost is $40 |
1lo.16. The improve meat includes grad I
ing and curblug and guttering with ce- !
mcnt and paving with asphaltum. From !
South Temple Ia Third South the road !
way VIII be sixty feet; from Third !
South TO the civ limits, fifty feet. Il |
is possible thst the improvement Will be
carried out to Third South at least this |
wear. Similarly. the completing of the |
paving on First avenue from where it |
stops off at Federal heights will be !
started this year. but probably not fin |
iShcd until next
Another Big Improvement
East Third South street from State /,
10 Tenth East, il distance of nine blocks, |
viii he paved with aspbaltum this year,
hnt not entirely paid for until next. The |
estimated cost of this Improvement is
Sl39.331i1. as follows: CitY's part, |
S3IS72.11 abuttcrs'. $l0l.6S5. The |
roadway viii be eighty feet from State |
10 Third East. scVcntvtwo feet from |
there TO Sixth East. and fifty feet from
there 10 Tenth East Grading, curbing !
and guttering are includcd.
Tn addition. this street viii be paved |
with aspbaltum from West Temple to !
Fourth West, Third West from South |
Temple 10 First North. and First West !
from South Temple TO Third South. Thus |
showing that the west side is not TO be
neglected, Eighth South from Main to |
State Will also be paved. and \ and p
3. Il |. a4s,,
iIarly improved from South Temple to
Fourth avenue. The Stale street paving /
Will he extended southwark TO the Salt |
Palace. hut probably not this year
The Second aud Third wards will get |
auproXimatclv twenty miles each Of |
sidewalks Sidewalk extension 1876 in |
The Second. and sidewalk extension l2S, I.
in the Third; sidewalk extension l1l, |
on Capitol hill, and paviEg extension 5S, !
on Edison street, will he ordered al once !
and completed carly this year The es
tluated cost of the Edison street eX |
tension is S5.2s0.5J, as follows: Clty's ,
part. S6215J; abutters', S590l.JJ. There |
are 1920 feet in this improvement. The |
city S part on the Capitol hill improve
meuts Is estimated ut 5000.
Ii begins TO look like Seventh East !
street property owners are going TO get |
that center park. The estimates and ap-
poTtionments board discussed the paw
ing and parking Of this lhoroughfare !
from South Temple TO Third South |
street ut lcngth and finally decided to |
recommend the Improvement 10 the |
council. The property owDcrs viii de-
maud the removing Of the new curbing
aud guttering towards the ccuier of the
street. narrowing the driveway from
scvcnty-two feet 10 sixty feet. if tbc
parking is eliminated. aud as the board |
Of public works has already submitted
+. j. Moran s hid on the Improvement
10 the council for lis approval. il is be
licved that the council viii approve the !
contract and let the work 60 ahead. To
do otherwise will entail considerable de
lay, and another argument in favor Of
the center parking is that ii is jmpTac
tirablc 10 center park the street below
Third South on account of the street
railway tracks. Tho property owners
want The center parking SO badly that
they have agreed Ia stand part Of the
expense Of maintaining ii for some fine
10 come. too.
Twelfth East Street.
The board will also recommend that
Twelfth East street he parked and
paved With asphaltum from First South
10 Second South but chat the parking
be eliminated from Brigham TO First
South. There is Il contract with Moran
for tbc paving and crutcr parking Of
the street before the council now. but
rs thc contract includes ceuter parking
for both blocks it may he that bids may
have 10 be rcadVertised for.
Among all these improvements it must
not he forgotten that Main street from
South Temple 10 Fourth South is also
10 be rcpayed and rcsurfaccd, rccurbed
aud reguttercd. This viii l,c one Of fbe
Grst if not the 6rst. of the improve
mcnts To be carried out
The city's part Of the improvements
10 be paid for this year will amount so
something like $4,000. il is said. The
proposition Of increasing The tax levy at
least Que mill aud possibly two mills,
WAS taken. The levy now is thirteen
mills. An increase of one mill would
add something like $4,000 To the city Is
reecnues and two mills approximately
100000 which would be available for
public improvements. The tax levy will
not be determined. however until July,
aud this matter will be left mainly with