Show Given Another Block contractors have had theic The sewer way and permission was yesterday granted by the board of public works excavate another block for them to of Second South intersection from ithe to mviii take then West ThiS and Third of Second South and Second he corner court house The West or the county depart of the engineering field force without delay and merit set the stakes excavating was commenced on the new block yesterday afternoon the When work ceased last night competed practically sewer was gravity plated to the intersection of South Tem and Fourth West with the excep pie directly west of the ion of the block University of Utah There the contractors tractors have encountered a great deal of bad ground and the progress has necessarily been slow At the present ate it will not be difficult to complete he system to the intersection of Second South and Second West unless the bad weather should put in its appearance within the next week or two The contractors that the tractors are of the opinion section now open can be closed within three weeks at the outside The engineer and his assistants are now hard at work getting out the es imate for the work done on the sewer during the month of October and on Monday the board of public works will be called together for the purpose of approving the amounts It is still an unsettled question whether the sewer will maice tne turn in the street at the corner of First South and Fourth West or cut across the lot at the northeast corner of the Intersection In order to do the latter it will toe necessary to obtain the right of way from the owners of the property and sit the present prices fixed by the latter this will require the expenditure of in the neighborhood of 4000 Although Al-though the city will save a considerable sum by the change the ° engineer and the members of the board of public works do not care to authorize such an outlay and the property owners there are two in this case may make some reductions in the valuations set on the land by them Should the officials decide de-cide ito follow the original survey the sewer will come out of the ground over a foot at the corner and a change in the grade will be necessary on the streets which intersect at that point thus involving in-volving four blocksof sidewalks in addition ad-dition to the street levels All oC this would foe rather expensive as the city would be forced to relay the walks having once given the official grade II is highly probable that the board of public works will < take the matter up nit the coming meeting |