The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-15
American City Administra-
ton Boasts of Paying for
improvements While Tax
PAYERS Have Footed Bills.
LITTLE FROM TREASURY;
MUCH FROM POCKETS
Tribune-COached Orators Me-
gIect to State That the Indi-
viduaI and Not Municipality
Is Responsible for Work.
HISTORY OF IMPROVEMENTS

IN pointing Ia the amount of i'm
prOVements that have been made
during The administration of the
American party, up ia the present time,
orators of the party have neglected 10
tell Just what percentage of the cost
has been paid by the city and what has
been borne by the property owners in
addition 10 the regular taxes.
A. "A matter of fact, the city has paid
only about One-fOurth of the cost of
paving streets with asphaig-and even
this l. paid primarily by the taxpayers
has paid nothing for sewer and WA
ter-main extensions, and had Ia float
bonds 10 the sum of S6OO.OOO for recent
additions.
on the three large paving contracts
this year-Third South, Ninth East and
Second West streets-there is total Of
about half million dollars represented.
And the American party administration
points to this figure with great pride
in telling of the wonderful improve
ments of the party and what they are
paving TO make the city new and mod
ern.
OF these three jobs. that of Third
South street, from state street TO
Tenth East street, has been completed,
and both others viii probably be opened
this winter. Ninth East street is com
pleted 10 a short distance below Ninth
South street, and work is being rushed
10 finish II as soon as possible. Ihen
the entire force Of p. J. Moran Will be
/ taken 70 the Second West street work.
Third South street was paved by
Strange a Mcguire.
City Pays 0ne-Tanrth.
According TO the contract prices, the
work on these three jobs cost 1901
ton OF the tax is s136. 1855. or about
One-fOurth. The remaining S365,37l, Al
comes out of the pockets OF the prop
/ erty owners who are affected by the
I Improvement And, besides this, the
Utah Light & Railway company pays
| far more than the city for the asphalt
/ paving, as IT must have fifteen feet or
paving where its tracks are located on
streets where the paving is done. Dur
ing the year il will cost this company
more than $1,000. coo for paving within
/ Salt Lake, besides the many other i'm
provements which the city levies.
second West Paving.
Many protests were filed against the
paving of Second West street by the
property owners there, but the work
/ was ordered The contract price was
/ Sl79 $3.50, though the city engineer 5
/ estimate was only s136, so. OF this
amount. only S42.SOO was paid by the
city and Sl36,168.50 paid by the prop
erty owners. This makes the eity's
portion less than One-fOurth. The orig
1 inal intention was TO run the improve
ment from South Temple to the Warm
/ Springs, but later this was extended
south TO Third South street.
| The wise ones in the city council
pointed out that the intersections OF
! Second South, First South and South
/ Temple would cost the city nothing. as
the east and west streets had already
| been paved. II would add TO the mile
age of asphalt laid and add 10 the
aggregate cost of paving in Salt Lake,
but the city would not have to bear a
/ cent OF the expense. SO the work was
extended south TO Third South.
The paving of Ninth East street from
South Temple 10 the southern limits OF
the city. was also awarded TO Moran at
! s151,477-47, though the city engineer. 5
office placed the estimate at S1I5,21O.l6.
I This was because the estimates were
| fixed at the old scale charged by Moran
before the entrance of Strange & Ma
guire, while Moran lowered his bid 10
the figures of his competitor on the
Third South work, thinking they would
again bid. This saved the property
owners another SIS 900. or about $4,000
on the two pieces OF work
Few Streets Paved.
On the city engineers estimate of
lS175.210.i6 for the paving of Ninth
East street, the cost to the property
owners was $119,710.l6, while the city 5
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