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Show GOXE TOO FAB. The numerously signed protests against paving sidewalks, which were read before the City Council last evening, indicate that the paving pav-ing districts established by that body have been too far extended from the business centre, and include portions por-tions of the city where landowners regarJ tho proposed Improvement as premature. The standing and character of many of the signers of these protests confirm this impression. impres-sion. Some of tlie sidewalks in the central cen-tral part of the city ought to paved, but a good layer of the right kind of gravel will serve every necessity for years yet in all parts of the city outside of the business centre. Perhaps an exception might be made in the case of a sluglo thoroughfare which is largely used as a connecting route between a given residence section and Main Street, as, for examnle. east South Temple. Street. But is there need of cement sidewalks as faraway as tlie Nintb,Tenth, Eleventh Elev-enth and Fifteenth wards? There probably is not a sidewalk in either of those wards used enough to make a cement pavement necessary, and of course this applies to all parts of the city still further removed from the business portion. However, there is no great danger of injustice being done to proi-erty owners. The law provides for local option in the matter of paving, and if the owners of a msjorlty of the frontage don't want a pavement they need not have It. Those who are opposed to it have only to bestir themselves and procure signatures to a protest representing a majority of the frontage, and present the ame, within the time prescribed by law, to the City Council. It pavements be laid where they are needed, but let gravel boused where It will sufficiently answer the purpose. |