Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-01
! UNDER PROHIBITION.

Kansas city, under Il zprohibtion adj
4 lnfnistration. has experienced the bene-
fits of the now conditions. According
s to the statistics furnished by tile AS
ISOLATED Prohibition Press. the records
d of the Board of Health shows u steady
4, decrease IN murders since the saloons
& We're closed. ( In 1905 the records show
Il rs homicides;; IN 1906, tile year the
saloons were cosed, IA honlicides; in
1907. II homicides: In 1908, only s homi-5
cides. Also herecords OF the Board
of Health show a decrease In the num-
2 Der, Of contagious and Infectious dis
eases since the saloons were closed.
The city taX-lepy has been reduced
more than half. In 1905, it was 1910
per hundred OF a 20 per valuation
Y In 1907, it was $3.50 on the same valu-
alton Last year the rate for all pur-
poses Was $LfO on a full valuation.
The bank deposits have increased
per cent since the Joints were
53eloied On March I. 1909, the amount
Of money on deposit in the Kansas
City, Kansas banks was s16,9So. $685.,
an Increase since June, 1906 just before
\ tho saloons We're closed OF. s6,S46.4o3.S5
The bank deposits have grown more
than ~ millions in file past twelve
. months.
The populstion has grown from 71.9l9
8 III 1906, to 100000 at this time. The
school board has spent 100000 for
school improvements and city officials
have had their salaries Increased un-
der prohibition.
The building operations have been
phenomenal In 1906 Kansas city,
Kansas, led all the cities In the United
States In its percentage of increase.
e Over 1905, of the building operations.
The next year still moro buildings
We're built, The cost'of new buildings
Z In 1906 was sl.00S69O. The cost Of new
buildings i'll 1907, was s1,472.279. This
did not include many buildings outside
the city limits,
An oil refinery costing half
million dollars was established in 1907.
improvements made last year to in
crease capacity cost about 100000.
Si,fe the saloons we're closed many
oilel new industries have been estab-
iiahed, including a structural steel
plant. "a cotton mill, a butter tub fac
tory for the manufacture of ire de-
z 'artnent equipments, a boiler works.
cap factory, a bank safe factory.
and a terra Gotta plant, The local.
gas company has spent half mill
lion dollars for improvements.
The Rock Island is building nov
shops in the Armourdate district When
completed, ii is said these shops Will
cost at least s5S5,000 and be the larp-
est shops west Of the Mississippi River,
All of this work has been done since
the saloons were closed
Public Improvements of many kinds
have been undertaken. Since the
saloons We're closed, the city has begun
to build park and boulevard sys.
TEN! Six blocks of boulevard were
built in 1908. and the park board is
going ahead to condemn ground for an
extensive system o. parks, park-wavs
and boulevards.
35 The 9h work of building levees to protect
& the low-lands from overflow Of the
4a Kaw river, has just begun. II is plan-5
s ned TO spend at least 100000 before
81, June !, 1909. The making OF special
improvements in this city has gone
e steadily on. An election has ;t.at baan
5# called to vote on half a million.
IN bonds for the purchase and exten.
s536AA SION Of .es -r'ti- $780,