The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-28
EAST THIRD SOUTH
STREET PAVEMENT
Property Owners Want 1t
Widened Between State
and Third East.
WATER MAIN PETITIONS
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
Favorable Action on Louis j.
Bowers Petition for a
Market.

With ono exception every petltion
for water main extension was reco"-
mended 10 be referred TO the city en-"
gincer and the superintendent oil wa
tcrworks by the waterworks committee
al Thursday evenings session OF inc
city council committees. The eIcep-
ton WAS the petition for the extension
of watcrmaius OH Alameda avenue
from Twelfth to Thirteenth Eas5
streets. which was recon'iiichocu
granted; cost, about Slooi.S5;
waterworka superintendent TO ascertain
if tbe extensions asked for VIII pay
Il per cent on the investment ana 10
The city engineer for an estimate OF
lhc cost. There are petitions for APP
proximatelv fifty-fivo blocks OF water
main extensions before the council,
which would cost anywhere from SOU
Q00 to $4,000.
Fast Third South street property
owncrs 70 the number of eight or ten
appeared before the engineering com
mittee with petition for the paving
nf that thoroughfarc between state
and Third East streets to Width OF
ninetv.two feet. instead of eighty feet,
~ contemplv ed. and the committee,
after listening to the petitioners, de.
ridcd 10 recommend the granrlng OF
the petition.
Sidewalks Will Lose
The widening of the street Will cut
six feet off each sidewalk, but the
property owners say they would rather
have the extra width in the street
than on the sidewalk. The notice or
intention now running calls for an
I,,,t W
changed to ninetytwo feet, ana IL
there are not enough protcstants the
improvemcnt will he changed. Inc
width of the street for the rest Of the
paviup, to Tenth East street wilI re-
main unchanged, seventy-thrce feet be
tween Third and Sixth East, sixty feet
from Sixth TO Ninth East and fifty feet
Cor the remaining block,
The committee on markets recon
mendcd the granting or Lon's y. Bow
crs s petition for PERMISSION to estab-
lish a sort of city market at what
is known as thc Continental hay mar
liet at l23 West First South street.
Bowers idea is 10 provide shelter
for The farmers teams and stalls from
which the farmers may dispose of their
produce. thus keeping produce wagons
Of the street. The committee recon-
mcnded that Bowers be required to oh,
tain the building inspectors approval
Of his buildings, however,
Le Grand Young's offer TO decd 10
fhe city lime stone ledge IN EmlGra-
ION CANYON. the stone from which, 1T
is believed. can be used for macadam.
was referred to the street supervisor
TO look up the tests Of samples OF the
stone.
Closing Of Gale Street.
r. ]. Moran s petition 10 close Gale
street in block Z, plat 4, Salt Lake
City survey. between Eighth and Ninth
South streets, was not acted upon, for
the reason that the city attorney S
opinion. which is adverse to the petit
tion, handed down Thursday, had not
reached the streets and municipal laws
committees. Moran wants possession
Of the thorougbfarc in connection
with his stables and contracting plant
OF Third West. between Eighth and
Ninth South, but the city attorney
SAYS that the street was dedicated to
the city in trust and that the council
has no authority 10 close and turn
il over to a private individual.
The engineering and sewage commit
ice cdAsidercd the protest OF property
owners against the manner IL which
sidewalks in sidewalk extension Jos are
laid, but took no action
The street committee recommended
the granting Of the petition Of Mrs
Walter ]. Frazier and others for the
grading of Jefferson street 20 relieve
uusauitary conditions existing there on
account OF pools of water in the street.
The graveling will be done by the city
Mt cost Of not TO exceed 800.