The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-10
COUNCIL PROMISES
VERY BUSY SESSION
Number of Important Matters
Are OH Schedule for Dis
CuSsiOn.
NORTH TEMPLE AQUEDUCT
MATTER To BE SETTLED
Proposition, 1t Is Said, May BE
Made for City to Take
Work Over.

The outlet pipe for the west side
sewage system, the North Temple Stree'
aoucduct. she broken 1umc at Parlcf
creek reservoir and the oregon ShorI
Line footwav on South Temple street
Will bc given some attention oJ 'ho
city council this evening. Besides the
meat inspection ordinance, an ordinance
regulating the inspection OF OILS III con,
ncciion with the Office OF sealcr oi
, weights and measures viii also be pre-
sentcd.
The precise status Of the North lem
nlc street auueduct will probably he DC
icrmined. There are 5G20 feet III the
improvement, Of which only llttIe
more than 1000 feet have been lald, ana
the work must he finished by June |.
! The contractors. Davis q Heuscf' nave
/ abandoned the work temporarily on ac-
count of the high waters without CIV
| ing the city notice. and through the
! condition in which the work has been
left adjoining property Is threatencd
| with damage by. floods. The city doesn l
want 10 have 10 he responsible for tins
! damage, and for one thing Will con
ccrn itself with getting from under to-
night in all probability,
JI
tion will be made this evening for the
city TO take the work over and finish
il at the contractors expense. How
| true this is could not be learned sun
day Street Supervisor Jake Raleigh.
with his men, is handling the flood sit
uation on North Temple street now.
Outlet Pipe Matter.
The outlet pipe. in the opinion of the
mavor and several others. will have to
! be uncovered for Approximately 5000
! feet Of its 1000 feet and reinforced
with cement and steel, and il may be
| that a proposition 10 this effect Will he
| submitted this evening. Z. j. Moran
will do the work by force account, con
scquently there is no dependable cstl-
mate of the expense just now.
The upper 1900 feet of the pipe APP
pears to be acceptable. hut the lower
! end, nearest the pumping station, shows
/ several leaks and fails 10 respond 10
pressure. Mr.. Moran has been busy
reinforcing the pipe underneath the
railway tracks, where 1t collapsed three
or four weeks ago. but has not gotten
to the seven air vents which are to be
put in the pipe.
The engineering committee will rec
ommend the paving of Twelfth East
street from South Temple TO Second
! South street with center parking. and
/ 1T is likely on account of the lay OF the
street that the report will be adopted .
but it begins to look like the paving of
Seventh East street from Brigham to
! Third South with center parking is
| doomed Upon motion of Mr. Stewart.
| it was decided last Monday night that
| the recorder be authorized TO readver-
| tse notice Of intention to pave Seventh
East street, without the parking: but
property owners will appear before the
council tonight, II is said. and make a
strong appeal TO that body to approve
! the contract of the board of public
works with p. j, Moran for the paving,
with the parking, and allow the work TO
proceed without any delay.
The property owners will either agree
10 bear all or part of the expense of
establishing the park. or else ask that
! the curbs and cutters be torn up and re-
I established so as to narrow the street
| from seventy-two feet to only sixty
feet. They are opposed 20 paying the
cost Of seveDtytwo.foot paved street
when a fifty-two- foot street. with a
twenty foot park in the center, was
promised them year ago, they say.
Council Is on Record.
On the other hand. the council has
| gone on record against any more center
parking beyond Sixth East street,
which faces along Liberty park, and it
Is unerstood counter with a proposition
TO share equally with the property own
ers the additional cost of paving the ex-
ira twelve feet made necessary BY the
! elimination Of the twenty-foot center
park. Whether this will he acceptable
to the property owners remains to be
! seen,
IT Is likely that tonight will see the
end or The hight between the city aud
the Oregon Short Line Railway company
over the company's footwav on South
! Temple street. between Third and
| Fourth West street, The street commit
/ tee Will recommend that General Man
ager w, ii. Bancroft 5 offer 10 remove
! the footway from l43 feet north of thc
north sidewalk to within eight or fen
| 1eet of the sidewalk be accepted. This
VIII discharge the travel on the west
| side of the depot. giving exit through
The depot, and will be acceptable 10
| Mr- Holley. who has led In the fight
| for the removal of the bridge.
| Some attention will be given 10 the
| proposition to increase the salaries of
hrcmen and several other city officers
including the land and water commits.
sioncr, the scalcr of weights and meas.
nrcs,, the clerk of the public works
board and others. The finance commit
tee wlll report favorably on The pro.
posed increases. 1t is said. which viii
| combined. O''
it is possible thai further ,nn,o
priation VIII be made with vb,chp hpp'o, ~
! fight the high waters. The pronosa1 10
| build concrete 6umc at Parlry's ros'
ervolr, IN place of the wooden Aumo
winch has given WAY NAV ho - 'Ny