The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-09
STARTS ON WORK
Of RED|STR|CT|NG
Boundaries of City Precincts
viii Be Changed Before
Election Day.
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS
TWO WILL COME FROM WEST OF
JORDAN HEREAFTER.

Jonn Z. Mackay. chairman or the
board Of county commissioners. was
busy yesterday juggling figures and
maps IN the work of readjusting the
election districts in the county. This
redistrictfng was made necessary by
the annexation Of part of the county
property in Sugar House to the city.
The work must be finished as soon as
possible to get everything in shape for
the elections this fall. The changing
Of the districts Will necessitate the
transferring Of names from one district
to another in each one affected, be-
sides other prediction work that must
bs handled in the county clerks office.
Changes viii have to be made in the
justice Of the peace precincts, and the
course to be followed by the commits
exactly to the school districts, thus
eliminating any possible trouble. In
the readJuStment the justice precinct
No. in the county, which will also be
district 1 of the Granite school dis
tIict, viii take in the voting districts Of
| 81, 80, So and 81, which are in Farmers
ward, Forest Dale and that part of the
county north of Thirteenth South
street TO the southern limits of the city;
and 55, which includes South Cotton
and Sc, which is the Mill Creek district:
/ district 8 viii include precincts 50, g.
and 50, which include South Cotton
wood, Big Cottonwood and East Mill
Creek. All of these viii be both school
and justice districts and will represent
( the three members Of the Granite school
/ board to be elected hereafter from the
! eastern side Of the Jordan river. The
/ fourth Justice district win include the
/ town Of Murray.
Explains the Changes.
On the west side of the river the
! commissioners viii probably have one
district include precincts SO and SO,
which are Pleasant Green and Garfield.
! The second district west Of the river
will include precincts IS, IS, 81, Sc and
81. Each of these will be a justice dis
! trict, and a representative district for
the Granite school, making two repre-
! sentatives Of the school board from the
west side of the river.
In explaining his attitude in giving
two Of the school board members to the
west side of the river, where only one
| has been allowed in the past, Chairman
/ Mackay showed that the assessed val
uation on the west side is nearly ST.
/ 00000o more than on the east. The fig
ures from the county assessors office
/ for 1909 show q total valuation in the
/ Granite school district of $S,41S,516, of
/ which S4.666 400 is assessed on the west
| side of the river, and $S,752, lie on the
east side.
"Of course, there are a whole lot
more children on the east side of the
river" said Nj. Mackay yesterday,
/ but I believe ii is fair to all to have
/ two OF the board members from the
west side of the Jordan, as we have far
more territory there and a larger as
sessed valuation. BY nearly a million
/ dollars. The present school board, of
which two are disqualified because they
do not live in the district. has started
| to erect the new Granite school at
Fifth East and Fourteenth South
| streets. We believe the central point
would be on the street car line at Four
teenth South and State streets, and the
I voters and taxpayers Of the Granite
district decided upon this place at a
mass meeting some months ago.
objects TO School Site.
Il cannot understand the attitude of
the board in insisting that the school
be erected at Fifth East street, away
from the car line and not in the center
Of the population, But there are q good
many taxpayers who will not stand for
the Fifth East location"
It is probable precincts I and in the
city win be split up, changing theiT
present boundaries. No. Will probably
be changed so that the eastern line will
be at Seventh East street, thus taking
/ from Third East to Seventh East as far
as the southern limits of the city al
Twelfth South street. Precinct No. .
viii then extend to the eastern city
limits and to Twelfth South street
There viii then be only one new pre-
cinct created, which win take In a part
Of Sugar House south of Twelfth Soutf
street, and that newly annexed country
to the south and east along the county
road. This Will be numbered 80, the
last precinct in the county
The work now taken up by the com.
nnissiOners is an arduous task but il
win likely be completed next week, and
the information turned over to the
county clerk to make up the poll books
and preDara for the election this fall