The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-16
PROPOSE GREAT PLAN
FOR PARKING CITY
Board Decides Upon Large
Number of Extensive
Improvements.
FOR LONG BOULEVARD
Warm Springs to Be Given
Attention; To Beautify
City Creek Canyon.

\ great parking and boulevard system
for the identifying OF the city wss
adopted by the board OF park commits
sloners at n meeting held in tho Office
Of Mayor John s Bransford yesterday
afternoon, \ system OF roads. parks
and boulevsrds second TO none In the
countr,. and Of which any city many
times the size OF salt Lake might well
be proud. is proposed BY The board.
The board. in CARRYING out this plan.
intends TO park the Warm Springs
grounds which are at present under
lease bug which NAV he parked ocfoTS
the lease e1PTes siio ,tor 20 pepS IN S thS w VI
cjnity Of Ensign peak. known as t.nsign
park. which It IS hoped The council WIZ
dedicate for parking purposes; 70 secure
the SQUARE Of land southeast OF the PARK.
which is owned BY the city and on "nirh
the city estray pound is now located.
for parking purposes, and 10 extend
boulevard around the eastern and nortA-
ern par, OF the city connecting these
parks.
Park City Creek Canyon.
From Canyon road, At the entrance 10
City Creek CANYON. Il Is proposed 10 park
City Creek canyon. running ooulcEaro
lid CItr creek 70 Eleventh avenue. This
boulevard will he taken east on Eleventh
avenue AZ the back Of the City cemetery
ana Newhouse park 10 the reservation.
II will run across the reservation 10 tue
plat OF land which tho board VIII get
from tho government for parking pur-
poses and for which negotiations ere no"
being carried on. Then T. VIII run south
across tho reservation on Seventeenth Fast
10 Twelfth South street Another loop
will ne taken south on Tvcnty-hrst East
10 Twelfth South street. where both VIII
Join the road going 10 Parlpys canyon.
which Is to be parked and set out IN
beautiful manner.
The park board intends also 10 improve
the city land I'm Psrlevs CANYON. which
IS now under lease. However improve
council. which the beard VIII cndeaVor
To set.
Extensive Boulevard System
The boulevard syster, viii run west on
Twelfth South street TO Fifth East street
and thence north 20 Liberty park. Thus,
IT. will he seen that this would estab-
lish In this city one OF the most beau
tiful and convenient parking systems
possible.
There was some discussion as to go
Ing 90 Big Cotton wood canyon, but that
canyon Is 80 far from the city that II
wns decided to include Parleys canyon
in the system. This will provide 4 beau
tiful place for pcople TO go In the sum
beautiful CANYONS Of Salt Lake valley
within easy access OF the city
The boulevard Will be parked along the
way. making splendid road for driy-
Ing and automobIing throughout the
yeer. n also viii he a splendid advertise
ment for the city, as strangers can easily
DO taken over IL. Thus persons coming
here from other cities may be shown
what q beautiful city salt Lake Is.
Improve Liberty Park.
The board decided 10 make some big
improvements a. Liberty park, fncluc-
Ing the enlarg!ng of the lake and the
parking OF the northwest corner. IT Is
also proposed 10 have Ninth South paved
from Fifth East. which is soon 10 be
paved. 70 Sixth East. the main entrance
to Liberty park. The secretary was au-
fhorized 10 circulate a petition among
the property owners TO have this i'm
provement made.
The board also desires 10 obtain n
piece Of property on the west side near
the Jordan river for a park for west
sIders. This matter is 10 be taken up al
n later date
The improvements decided upon by the
board Will be made As soon as the nee
essary adjustments can be made and the
work actually begun.