| Show PURSE TIGHTLY SHUT Lots of Improvements Peti Petitioned Petitioned Petitioned for Sidetracked by Council as Usual WEST SIDERS RECOGNIZED KICKS REGISTERED AGAINST BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS The present city administration is 1 not so EO anxious to order improvements as it was vas before the election except when there Is no cost coEt to the city or when it itis itIs Itis is work provided for by the bond fund money Last evening the city council sent nearly worth of improve improvements Improvements Improvements ments petitioned for by property own owners owners owners ers and duly advertised for protest to the finance committee where they will probably lie Ho until some way Is found to provide the necessary to pay for he s share of ot the work The aqueduct for lor North Temple street streetT streeta i T as a rushed through and the councilmen from the Second ward were successful In getting an order to proceed with wa water water ter main extensions for which the west westside es t side Bide has been clamoring for two years Some other work was ordered which will be he provided for by the bond fund if it the share is little The extensions sent to the finance committee for purpose of delay Include sidewalk extension on the east bench benchat at a cost of portion paving extension 54 51 West Vest Temple from Fifth Firth to Ninth South and Fifth South between First West Vest est and Main Iain street cost 84 portion paving extension 53 ii First West est between South Temple Tempi and ani an Thud Third Couth cost portion i sidewalk extension from i to Fourth West and Ninth South to Martin and Roper avenues avenue cot cost co t 62 6 portion paving extension 51 First t avenue from J street to Virginia street cost portion The total cost of these is and the th total of tie the t e portion is It is III doubtful if any of them will ill be done this year ear as there thore is no money to pay for the eity portion though some of them may be ordered on the eve of t another election Contracts Approved The fhe contract sent up from the board of ot public works which met yesterday afternoon and awarded to Davis Heu Heuter Heuter Heuser ter ser the th of ot the aqueduct on North Temple street from Fourth West Vest to the Jordan river at a n cost of 2 was at once approved The council also approved the con eon contracts contracts tracts for the conduits of reinforced concrete for the Salt Lake Jordan canal at Parleys creek for tor and north of Mill Creek for tor award awarded ed by the board to Shea Anderson Another contract approved was for power for the Utah Uth lake pumping plant and was with the Utah County Light LIht Power company for a maximum of horsepower and a minimum of horsepower for five months at per horsepower Councilmen and Hodgson got through an order to the board of works to rush the work of of sewer extension No 18 hold by James Kennedy Kenned West Siders Win The Th councilmen from the Second ward ai d made mad an united effort and secured the passage of an order to t the board of works to advertise water vater extensions on the west wet side amounting to about 17 These The wor werf first ordered a year and anda an ana a half ago and were down last year ear to be done out of the tho bond issue izue Few of the extensions will pay pa the usual rate of interest on the expendi expenditure ture for putting them in and there thero is I b tome some question as to whether they ey can 3 be carried through without a change of ot the ord ordnance nance Though Councilman L E Hall BaU remarked that this Ibis looked like an unseemly squabble for distribution dIstrIbution tion of the bond money mone the west side members m were insistent and it went through A petition from S E Hamer and others protesting against the manner in which the board of works is neglect neglecting ing tug the Interests of the property owners and allowing bad work on ex extension extension extension tension No lOS was referred to the en engineering engineering committee The petitioners asserted that in some places there were twelve nelve to twenty cracks in the new to a city block The board they said had promised them redress and had not made any an change in the thc quality of the work being done Requests Are Made Edison property owners want that thoroughfare paved and their re request reQuest request quest went to the streets committee will also consider a request of ot Willard Tillard Mack of the Bungalow the theatre theatre theatre atre and George D of the th Salt Lake theatre theat to be allowed to maintain awnings over the sidewalks until the close of the theatrical season The payrolls payroll amounting to wele approved Councilman L E Hall HaU offered a reso resolution resolution resolution lution to consolidate con the waterworks and the water supply funds to save confusion and simplify bookkeeping but buthis buthIs buthis his request was sent tent to the graveyard of all such resolutions the finance com cam committee committee The same committee wll wU consider a proposition to advertise for bids for supply of street Igns Papworth Sons Son were given ghen permission sion slon to go ahead with the erection n ft r their proposed packing plant and cold co d storage warehouse at Eighth West and Seventh North streets The Salt Lake Hardware company pot got ot |
