The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
Salt Lake, Under
Z Progressive City
|Government, Has
'Carried Out
Improvement w Work
In Pavements,
Sidewalks, Sewers,
1Curbing And
ECuttering to an
Extent Treble That
Done by All Former
"A Adminlstratlons
combined Since
arrival of Pioneers


R needed to show the wonderful
strides in development made by
Salt Lake City under American
Irille. II is only necessary to take the
whole period from the arrival of Brig
ham Young and the pioneers in ls47
10 the advent OF progressive govern
fment by Americans in 1906 and place it
against the period from 1906 to date.
II From IS4T To 1905 the amounts ex-
lpended for public Improvements totaled
t$2,sIs,O For the period from 1906
until the present time, less than six
Years, the total value of public improve
Iments made in the city has been 1924
l59l90. or nearly three times as much
as for the previous great period of al.
most sixty years.
n From an overgrown village Salt Lake
has become modern city Where there
\ were bu; cowpaths are now handsome
N paved streets The old plank sidewalks
i have given way TO fine cement walks
\ many miles of sewers have replaced the
old unsanitary ceSspools and where
4 there was no curbing and gutteriDg
I whatever under former rule miles have
been constructed
And Mayor Brsnsford announces
. that this policy of steady improvement
is TO be continued.
Nobody in Salt Lake can feel assured
that this will be the policy Of the re-
4 dictionaries. who arc planning under
various disguises to seize the relus of
power
The people Of Sat Lake are for 4
modern city and know from experience
that II can only be made such by pro
gressive Americans.
II By what these opponents of progress
have accomplished when they had the
opportunity only is it fair to Judge
Efhem.
III In fiftv-nine years they. laid only
100 miles Of street pavement. Since
NSalt Lake = affairs have been admin
klstered by Americans. only less than
fiIve wears, 2S,6j miles of excellent AS.
kphat pavement has becu laid Aud
each year is adding to the mileage Of
kpaved streets III the city.
4 In the whole period from The arrival
h of the pioneers to 1906 plank sidewalks
kwcrc The r0lc, 4 total of only 72.s
Fmilcs of ANYTHING approaching modern
lEidcwalks were laid aud Of these much
Was gravel. The figures include tar.
brick. asphalt. cement, tlagstoucs and
gravel.
ii Sincc 1906 Americans have seen TO II
That 4ll,62 miles of good cement side
walks boVc been added 10 the sidewalk
mileaee and more arc going down eaco
4 ycar Il. they arc needed
In the old and long regime J5.o9 miles
Of sewers we're built Much of this
L Work WAS Of faulty construction and
bas required many repairs.
Il in less than SIX wears the American
administration has built 1852 miles OF
l. sewers aud is contemplating a very cou-
n siderablc addition TO this important
h brlDch OF Improvement
In water mains there is a good show,
jug OF mileage built in the 80 wears
But the sort of mains laid would moi
commend themselves 10 a modern city
Il Little record was kept OF what wen,
down then. Who're II was supposed that
There we're sIX-iUch mains have been
| found but threc-inch pipcs. However
t5.Ol miles were laid. which includes
H. miles Of ope.and.a half. two-lncl
aud threeinch pipe which have sinct
been replaced by the present admins
trstIon hN siX.inch mains,
Previous to 1906 the alleys Of Sal
Athhc were uuSJOlldrf, ne American
H. administration altered this state of AT
II fairs aud compelled the cleaning Of the
alleys and is still carrying on thi,
work la 1he past five years l.06-
miles of asphalt paving has been placed
40 alleys OF the business district,
10 INC large cut published here thC
work OF tive American administration
stands out clearly. In every instance
except 10 ibc mileage of water main;
land the record of five wears tower.
bigh above that Of 80 wears beside it
improvements made bv Americans vii
soeu reach seven millions Of dollars
tldf sum for the city TO have pat int,
permanent improvement III six wears.
N lt can be readily seeu What Il tasl
me Americau administration bad bc
\ II lofe 1T on assuming control u 1906
lhcfe WAS a demand that the city D,
noderniled. Previous admiuist stratiun
nsd lett but little 10 carry on worl
MI with and little 10 show for what ha,
neen spent. There WAS. however. d,
n nesitnliou on the part of the mayor an,
III couucI. The work was begun TO tn
II full extent of the city finances aud ha
nver siuce continued TO the same tul
cstent, Year bv year the asrbalt pav
ing crept out toward the resi-
aenee section and covered the busi
ness section. cemont sidewalks ar
NOV the rule every where, tb
Interceptlug sewer and miles of con
. tueSunR sewers have been built, Nov
anc People OF Salt Lake have hecom
nc sd 10 modern methods and van, a
- COCO Things IN tho Nay ~ roder
''!,ppfiovenents thh' other cities have.
NY would not care 10 so back 10 In
. Wsnk sidewalk DAYS. And they knoy
T. ,,hhhl lnsE would not have all these Eon
rm,nss mad there not been an America
= IL There he- been no cessation Of In,
- en'eh' work since the incoming o
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