Show f A GENEROUS COUNCIL I Tree Gilt Distribution oC 513500 Worth of Itoal Estate k 1 If you do not see what you want ask I font The city council should tack up the above motto above President Loofbonr ows chair for there is not an instance on record of a case where a man wants anything any-thing but that he can get itwith the exception ex-ception of the Los Angeles road One of the slickest jobs engineered through this body of baa traders was the one which transferred 13500 worth ofT of-T city ground to the lot owners on the eastside east-side of the capitol grounds This present of ninety feet in depth to S 11 each lot owner is something entirely Utopian and it is only a pity that the city fathers have not enough land to present pre-sent a lot ninety feet In depth to everyman every-man woman and child in the city But the rule is to give to him who hath and to take from him who hath not The 13500 present which President Loofbourow and his councilmen gave to the capitol grounds lot owners of course had a consideration The consideration this case was an agreement on the L vvhe lot owners to grade their o sjroun 5 There was a high bank or r e of ear on the back portion oi these us which it was to the interest of these wners to omove before i building Iff Fred Trimmer qr iloiiry Harrison q both claim the credit of originating the 1 scheme conceived the idea that if they 1 went to the city council and asked that body to give them ninety feet at the rear FE of their lots facing City Creek canyon for the purpose ot filling in this dirt C they would do it The lots facing the capitol grounds on the east wer originally origin-ally 200 feet in depth The council by ordinance extended them 90 feet into the canyon making their total depth 290 feet These 200foot lots were valued at from 53000 to 5COO each The extra 90 feet is worth 1500 to each lot with 50 feet frontage There are nine lots in the block which makes a total of 13500 |