IT HIT THEM HARD The Heralds Sewerage Article Stirs Up the City PROPERTY OWNERS VIEWS Arguments for and Acainst the Measure Meas-ure Hany Men of Many Minds Sewerage is the topic of the day Those opposed to it are opposed to it i red hot those favoring it smile in the sanguine expectation that it is a foregone fore-gone conclusion There seems to b 5 no regard whatever what-ever for the poor in this matter said Mr Angus M Cannon who is an owner of property on South Temple Street I am opposed to it and will fight it to the endMR MR GEORGE M CANNON the County Recorder declared I would be in favor of it if I knew where the water to flush the pipes was coming from It will be a benefit to me and cheap enough bat the water is the problem with me If I were satisfied on that score I would be in favor of it ELIAS A SMITH Probate Judge did not believe the pipes for the laterals were large enough I do not propose to be compelled to carry my house pipes twenty rods to connect with the laterals east or west because they I have not put a lateral along North Temple Street The block that I live on will go against it RECORDER WELLS said in answer to a query about a case like Judge Smiths who is taxed and yet in front of whose place no lateral runs that in such oases there was no doubt that the Council would deal justly and that they would only be required to pay u fair proportion of the expenses Mr Lowries plan was that property owners on North Temple could connect with their next neighborsthey would not have to go to the expense of running run-ning pipes all the way to the streets themselves THE HERALD did itself proud said Mr Westerfleld of Westerfield Cris mon and I think that articles like that well followed up will convince the unthinking un-thinking of just what sewerage means for the town People Who dont want sewerage said Doc Nelden should live down hare and take an occasional look into the back yard of the Walker House and Cullen Hotels which run close together Theyve had so many cesspools dug back there that theyve got a force at work prospecting for some place where they can dig a new one but they cant find a place where a cesspool hasnt already been sunk For years they have been dug so close togethsr that theyve all run into one and now that whole section is one vast underground well of filth It wont seep away anymore any-more either as the soil has got so impregnated im-pregnated that perculation is impossible impossi-ble and the stuff just stays there and the stench rises to the surfaceS surface-S werage Well I should smile R MACKINTOSH is wholly soully and emphatically in favor of sewerage C V WHITING who represents several rods on Main Street saidSewerage is a necessity Salt Lake will never amount to anything without it JIHN MCDONALD No sir I shall fight it tooth and toe nail Twenty years hence will be ample time to talk about sewerage I have a cesspool twentyfour feet deep and that will suffice suf-fice me for many years to come If the proprietors of the Walker House Cullen Cul-len Hotel and Wasatch Block want sewerage all right let them pay for it I dont propose to help bear their burdens bur-dens MARK MCKIMMINS Want sewerage Most certainly It is only a question of time when it will be an absolute necessity ne-cessity even if that time is not here right now I believe in the construction of a sewer in the district embraced in our diagram of Sunday HON JOHN W YOUNG said there was no doubt that we needed sewerage but we needed water first and most Some simple and inexpensive method should be adopted to dispose of it Said one prominent business man yesterday If I could not have obtained ob-tained a copy of THE HERALD of Sunday Sun-day without paying 10 for it I would have paid the 10 I have got it pasted in my book of reference and will keep it CHAS AUER Personally I probably haveno voice in the matter the land on which my buildings are located is leased Still looking at it from a general gen-eral standpointfrom the standpoint of the weltare of the community I am certainly in favor of it F D OLIFT This gentleman after several vain endeavors on the part of the reporters was finally run down He expressad himself as being a most emphatic champion of the sewerage question and ne is a heavy property owner Sundays HERALDS containing the big sewer article were gobbled up voraciously vora-ciously on all hands and the comment was everywhere heard by those for and against the plan that this was the first time the thing had been put in a shape that came home to you Opponents of the scheme deny that nearly one half the property values in the interested district is already committed com-mitted in favor of the plan Let them do a sum in simple addition by looking over the interviews in the Sunday HERALD HER-ALD adding together the amounts assessed as-sessed against those who expressed themselves favorably and the result will show Figures cant lie Up to last night no protests had been filed with the City Recorder