The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-22
NARROW STREETS
PLAN APPROVED
Contract for Paving Third
West, so Feet in Width,
Passes Council.
OTHER CITY IMPROVEMENTS
WATER SPRINKLER is ALLEGED
TO HAVE PRIVATE SNAP.

Although al the other main arteries Of
the city are ninety-two feet In width. and
although Third South street. running east
from state street will be made that
width. West Third South street leading
directly 20 the new Denver q Rio
Grande station. which is expected to be
one of the coming great thOrOughfares.
viii be only eighty feet wide.
When the contract with =. j. Moran
for paving this street from West Temple
the council for approval last evening.
Councilman l.. F. Hall pointed out that
a mistake was being made in narrowing
the street. Only Councilman John HOlley
agreed with him, and the contract with
the narrow street i'm il was approved.
Mr.. Hall changed his vote ana gave mo-
tiCe of reconsideration. so the matter viii
be aired again next week. Some of the
c0uncilmen agreed that the street should
be a wide one, but were afraid that to
IeadVertise would delay the work and II
would not be done this year. Councilman
Mark Reedall was the only one who in
sisted that eighty feet was quite wide
enough anyway The contract IS for S3-,-
l13 90 for the three blocks of paving
s contract with J. W. Mellen was ap-
proved for the grading of Fourth North
from East Capitol street to Wasatch
drive. Mellen is to take out the gravel
and earth and put the street to grade,
paying the city for the privilege Of TAX
Ing away the gravel a total Of I,3l9
Sticking TO Pledges.
II. j. Dininny sent in an opinion to the
effect that wafer mains could be extend
ed ON Bueno street and paid for out of
the bond fund. as the notice calling for
the election on The bonds had stated land
other necessary water main extensions
The councilmeu of the administration.
however. Nirtuously announced their in
tpntiOn of sticking to the pledges made
prior to that election, though Councilman
ION f1vnasr r.
Fernstr0m. however. was one Of the OPP
position. who applauded the decision to
abide by the original program regarding
the bond fund. The extension carried,
but will be paid for from the waterworks
fund.
The building inspector reported that the
corrugated iron structure which J.. J.
Bowers proposed to put up for city
market does not conform to the city or
diuan@e and he was denied a permit.
The council adopted the rec0mmenda-
ton Of the sanitary committee to place
sanitary drinking fountains i'm the bust
ness district before the g. a. r. national
cncampment
1t was decided on recommendation of
the street supervisor to replace the
WOODEN bridges over City creek al North
Temple and First and Second West
streets with concrete structures rein
forced with steel. The old bridges were
washed away by the recent floods. A
concrete flume. TO be paid for out of the
fund for the aqueduct, was included.
Charges by Patrolman.
Charges were made by Horace A.
Heath, patrolman. against DelOs r.
BackmaTT, driver of a city sprinkling
wagon, TO the effect that he was using
the wagon of which he was i'm charge to
carry out private sprinkling contracts
during the time for which he was paid
by the city He saws he can prove his
charges and will be heard by the finance
committee on Thursday evening, when
Blackmarr viii be summoned to meet the
charges. Blackmarr has been driving a
wagon near the Salt Palace.
The Campbell Building company. which
held the contract for the wood stave out
let pipe. which has caused so much trou-
BILE presented its bill. amounting to the
contract price of NS03S.17 with extras
making it S1S333.g2 and recent extras in
addition of S404 go. The company claims
the full amount despite all the leaks and
trouble. IL was sent to the finance COM
mittee.
p. J. Moran has a bill against the city
for stopping the leaks after the Camp
bell Building company sot through i'm the
vicinity of $4,000. or more than the orig
inal cost of the pipe.