The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-27
REMOVAL Of
CITY WATER PIPE
Fourth Ward Property Owners
Object to Improving Service
in First Ward.
MAY GO TO THE COURTS
COUNCIL PLANS DEVELOP IN
TERESTING CONTROVERSY

An interesting fight has already de-
veloped against removing any OF the
water pipe from the Fourth ward ana
placing them in the First, under the
nIans outlined by the council and the
board of public works. The Salt Lake
Security & Trust company and others
have Joined in a petition to the city
council protesting against this action
and the matter may be carried into the
courts if the city persists IN its present
program of having the pipe moved TO
increase the efficiency in the southeast
ern part of the city.
Owing to the state of the city's
finances, the pipe now on hand VIII
have to be used either in the Fourth or
First wards. There is no money with
which to buy more. 1t is figured that
the water mains are needed more in
the southeastern part of the city, where
many acres were recently taken in, but
the property owners on the bench take
a different view. They declare the
water mains were promised them or
they would not have voted for the $780,
900 in bonds last year, and they pro-
pose to have them. The First ward
has used practically its quota of pipe.
but it is now asking for the largest
Orders Long Delayed.
Since last fall the iron pipe of ten
inch and eight-inch sizes has been lay
ing in the streets in the Fourth ward
on the northeast bench, with Doyle
Brothers & Schwartz awaiting orders
from the city. The order has never
been issued, except through the board
of works a few nights ago. The con-
tract for laying water mains last year
was held by Doyle Brothers &
Schwartz, but P. ]. Moran has added
this to his asphalt paving cinch this
year. Moran, however, has agreed to
allow the contractors of last year TO
put in this pipe in the First ward, il
the city wants it done there, and then
Moran will have the new work TO do in
the Fourth, when the city gets around
to (which will be when the city gets
enough money to go ahead with the
work.
The board of works has issued spe-
sial work order to Doyle Brothers &
Schwartz to move the pipe from the
Fourth to the First ward, but this has
not yet been signed by Mayor John S.
Bransford. 1t was stated yesterday
that the water main contractors had
started moving part of the pipe, but
d
Bransford will issue the order. But if
the mayor does sign for the extra work,
it is declared an action will be brought
in the courts by property owners on
the northeast bench to enjOin the city
from ordering the pipe moved.
VIII Cost Big sum.
Members of the council hardly realize
what it will cost to have the pipe
moved. Doyle Brothers & Schwartz
refuse to give any estimate of the cost,
but they have stated to the board of
works that they will want at least what
it costs to move it all. All of the pipe
which has lain in the streets since last
fall will have to be loaded onto wagons
by men and then hauled at least three
miles, over a good deal of rough
ground, to the newly annexed property
IN the southeastern part of Salt Lake.
1t is estimated that the work will cost
at least $1,000.
Water service both in the southeast
ern part of the city and on the north
east bench is very poor during the
summer, but it is stated that the south
eastern part Of the city has the worst
of it. During the summer time with
the present mains water cannot be OBJ
tanned on the second floor of hundreds
of homes. The plan was to use the
Fourth ward pipe in the First to COM
plete new system and give better
service. 1t is contended, on the other
hand, thai residents north of Ninth
avenue viii not be able to get water at
all this year, unless the pipe is laid for
them.
Until Mayor Bransford takes some
action, either to issue or to refuse to
sign the extra work order, nothing will
be DONE