The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-27
FIX ESTIMATES
FOR PUBLIC WORK
CIty'S Portion Carefully Con-
Sldered in Selecting Streets
for Paving Program.
BIG SUM TO BE EXPENDED
NINTH EAST TO GO THROUGH
UNLESS OWNERS OBJECT.

The city administration is preparing to
embark upon another campaign Of i'm
provements The board of estimates and
Improvements. at a meeting held yester-
day, decided to order sidewalks and as
phalt pavements the total cost of which
viii amount to about $4,000. This work
Will come before the council Monday even
ing, and if authorized bids will be invit-
ed to be opened April %.
The manner in which the streets have
been chosen is likely to create some feel
ing The extensions which will cost any
considerable sum for the city's portion
have been overlooked. The board picked
out those extensions where intersections
were already in OF on which the citv's
portion would be light, getting as many of
these together as possible to make a big
showing, regardless of the fact that there
are others asked long before them which
because Of cost to the city, will not be
done this year.
All of these improvements have been
hanging fire while the legislature was in
session, in the hope that the bill charging
all cost of intersections to the property
owners would go through. Now that this
measure was killed by Governor Spry, it
was necessary to make a showing of some
sort.
List of Extensions.
The work decided upon Friday COM
prises well over fifty miles of cement
sidewalks, many Of these on the west
Extension IS, First North street.
Extension 126, Third to Ninth South,
and Main street 10 the Jordan. These
boundaries include 2212 miles of sidewalk.
Extension rs, South Temple to Fourth
North and Main to Eleventh West, in
which boundaries are included 1919 miles
of sidewalk.
Extension 1n, North Main and Third
North.
Extension 142. replacing Of defective
walks all the distance Of East First
South.
The street paving to be done includes a
large number Of small extensions, some
of which will cost the city nothing as
intersections are already in. Among the
principal streets on which work viii be
done are:
Fourth East from South Temple to Third
South.
seventh East from South Temple to
Third South.
Twelfth East from South Temple to Sec
oud South.
a street, two blocks
r street. two blocks.
East Third South from State to Tenth
East
West Third South from West Temple to
Third West.
Ninth East from South Temple to the
city limits.
Ninth East Favored.
The last extension, that of paving Ninth
East is only in the advertising stage, but
the board decided that if the property
owners who are asking for it are not
defeated by enough protestants to block
il, the work will be done. 1t will be the
longest paved street in the city. compris-
ing two and a half miles Of asphalt
paving
II was decided not TO order the paving
of First avenue from street to Federal
Heights, as the city's portion of this ex-
tension would amount to S26.000 1t was
also decided not to order some other ex-
tensions the cost of which would add to
the financial burden of the city at large
Besides these improvements TO be done
during the coming year. contracts will be
let April % for water mains. There are
already $4,000 of these ordered and many
more to come. These viii be paid out OF
the bond money.
Besides these. there viii be a lot OF
sewer work if the intercepting sewer is
ever in such condition that laterals may
be put in.
At the meeting of the board Of estimates
and appointments when the work was
decided upon were Mayor Bransford
COuncilmen W. Mont Ferry, L. J. Wood.
r. r Black, A. J. Davis. l. D. Martin
and +. S. Fernstrom. and L. c. Kelsey.
city engineer
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