The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-02
P. ]. MORAN WILL
BEGIN WORK TO-DAY
Main Street Is TO Be Resurfaced
From South Temple TO
Fourth South.
WORK TO BE FINISHED
BEFORE ENCAMPMENT
Many Matters of Routine Char
acter Before the City
Council.

Main street 10 resurface it this morn.
ing.
The hoard OF works contract with
Moran for this Improvement was APP
proved by the council Tuesday evening
and Mr., Moran will throw force of
mon onto the street at clock this
morning, beginning at Fourth South
uDd working up on the right hand side
Of the street To Third South and then
turning around and finishing the west
side OF The street. and with il the
block, between Third and Fourth South
before proceeding to The block between
Second and Third South streets.
The work must be done by August
Z, two days before the national en-
campment of the &. a. r. begins, and
as the contract contains forfeiture
clause Of 800 day it is not likely
that the contractor Will let any grass
grow under his feet. The contract
price is $4,000, approximately.
Two more immense improvements
will be started soon. The board of
public works was authorized to adver
iise for bids on sidewalk extensions
l2S and l2S, the city recorder report
ing that not enough protests 10 defeat
The improvements bad been received.
Extension l26 is in the Second ward
and calls for 22.5 miles of sidewalks
at an estimated cost Of Slo1 ,249.93, Of
which the abutters' part is S15,99l,S4
and the rest the city's. Extension l2S
calls for lg.5 miles of sidewalks in the
Third ward at an estimated cost of
SS4 ,933. o., of which the abutters part
is $40, ,199.40. There was only 1872
feet in tho protest against l26 and 966.J
feet in the protest against l2S.
Request Is Granted,
That Police Chief Samuel NJ Barlow.
like his predecessor. Thomas d. Pitt. IS
maintaining secret service was made
evident by his request for an appropria
tion of 5000 for the contingent fund for
the maintaining of a secret service bu-
reau. Tho request WAS granted.
O. H. Samps s protest against The
paving OF Third South street from
State to Third East for width of %
feet instead of so feet as originally in
tended, went 10 the engineering COM
mittee Mr.. Sampson says the increas
ing of the width of the street will dam
age his property, for which he will
hold. or attempt to hold, the city re-
sponsble.
p. j. Moran withdrew his petition for
the closing of Gale street between
Eighth and Ninth South streets and
asked for the papers back. but this was
denied Third West street property
owners are now opposing the building
of a spur track by the Oregon Short
Line Railway company in Third West
street to Moran s stables and contract
ing plant on that thoroughfare be
tween Eighth and iuth South streets
and likely would have made a fight
upon the closing Of Gale street.
Fire Chief W. II. Glore S removal of
+. c. Smith, fireman, for the good
of the service was concurred in. as was
= .c ~ ,,rl
TO fiji the vacancy caused by Smith s
removal. The cause for Smith s re-
moval did not appear in the chief S
communication TO the council.
Police Chief Barlow renorted favor
ably upon the application Of Heath
Bros. for liquor license al the Salt
Palace and the application was granted,
but Mr.. Martin gave notice of mo-
tion to reconsider.
The contract with Mrs. Mary Bcro
for feeding tho city lail prisoners at
10 cents a meal instead of cents was
approved.
r.. ". Butler aud !. u. Weller were
appointed special policemen for Lab
special for Pioneer park and i. w.
Bergman was named specisl police
man for the city and county building
landscape. r. RI. Radl<c was made .
special policeman for Second and Thlrd
South streets, between Third and Fifth
West streets, upon the request Of west
side citizens
w. r. Clark s claim for $500 for dam
ages to his drug store cellar at Eleventh
East aud Twelfth South streets by rea-
son of the current high waters, went
10 the claims committee.
An Open Gravel Pit.
The land and water commissioner says
that +. w Nellen is thc only one of
three contractors 10 refuse TO enclose
his gravel pit on Capitol hill. and the
city attorney was called on Tor au
opinion as 10 the city's power 70 COM
peI Mellen to enclose his pit with
fence. to keep children from falling
into It,
The Jordan River Land aud Develop
ment company 9 petition for an cXten
sion Of it's lease on twenty acres of
ground on the west bank of the Jorda II
river, just west Of Agricultural park.
from three years to twenty years, was
referred to the public grounds commit
tee. The company offers the city 500
a year for the lease.
Partial payrolls amounting to
s72s0.l5 for the half month ending
June ] were approved.
The meat ordinance was made a spe
cIal order for clock next Monday
evening, under motion by Mr.. Wood,
which insures some definite action upon
the measure.
Watcrworks Superintendent Thomas
HOLIDAY was granted a two weeks leave
of absence and appropriated $500 to at
tend the twenty ninth annual conycn.
tion Of the American Waterworks asso.
citation at Milwaukee. June 10 10. and
City Engineer Louis c.. Kelsey was
given $3.50 10 attend the meeting of the
American Society Of Civil Engineers in
New Hampshire. beginning July >, only
Messrs. Holley, Hall, Martin and Muir
doeh voting against the appropriation,
which was first placed at 5000,
Reduction in Poll Tax.
The city attorneys ordinance reduc-
ing the poll lax from So 10 So and
making it payable in cash, instead Of
labor or cash, TO conform to the new
state law on the subject, went TO the
municipal laws committee.
Twelfth East street will be paved and
the center parked from South Temple to
Second South street. The board of
ocuiront r-.;fh u Mo-,