Show I RECORDS OF SPECIAl ASSESSMENTS PlACED IN CITY'S NEW BOOKS By Discarding Present Volumes es Trace Can B Be e Kept of Taxes Without Difficulty Complete records of or all special lm- lm pro prot ement assessments mado made In Salt Lake Lako since tho the first public improvement Improvement Improve improve- ro e ment was made mado nearly three twenty ye years rs ago ha have hae e be been n n transcribed bed b by bythe bythe the city rHy treasurer treasur r from seventeen dilapidated d old r record cord ho books Into six now new neatly and conveniently arranged record booksOn books On almost every page of or tho seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen old oM books book the records have been written In and filled tilled In up to date until It was as lute like trying to solve a Chinese pU le to decipher exactly what the real record was For several months the tile office force has been employed on th the work worl of transcribing the rec records an and it was completed yesterday ester a morning Henceforth Henceforth Henceforth Hence Hence- forth all special improvement assessment assess assess- mont ment records will be entered in the new books Tho The new records In addition to being condensed in to volumes art are also aso condensed condensed condensed con con- In the matter of or entries so that any ny ass assessment nt may be easily anti and readily referred to and the exact condition condition con con- of It Jt determined at a glance glanc Two Tuo volumes are Jre devoted de to records of oC sidewalk assessments two to sewers sowers and one ono each to paving and curbs and gutters An n Interesting feature of or the records Is that they show the first public lm- lm I pro emont of or any sort to bo be ma made mado e in Salt Lake b by the city Itself was the tho laying laying- of or raving caving on Commercial street in 1890 and the first assessment for Cor this work wor was mado on September 9 of that year ear l The he next work wa was Avas curbing and gutter on tho same ame street assessed Oct 6 G. G 1890 The next improvement was waa a s sewer ewer on tho the north side of First South street from Fifth Firth to Eighth East assessed Dec 26 t 1892 and the next was a piece of ot sidewalk on East South T Temple street from Eighth to Twelfth East assessed March 3 1893 |