Show ROAD REPAIRS Dr Seymour B Young on the Appropriation Ap-propriation to the Supervisor An open letter to the maYQr and city council of leter Lake City I learn by looking over the appropriations appropria-tions of last Tuesday evening that the city council made the usual appropriation appropria-tion to the road supervisors department something over SliOO Now as in the sonl past I consider that the trxpayers this money is needlessly expended for road work and it is an outrage on the community Nature has provided us with good natural roads especially In the upper up-per parts of the city and still the road supervisor has been constantly engaged In plowis up these naturally good streets and making them Into that condition condi-tion that in the dry seasons ot the year they are literally dry dust heaps and In the rainy season they are veritable quagmires quag-mires Thus these natural roadbeds are plowed un and scraped Into the middle of the streets in the form ot sloping ridges and by such time as it is left in this position the dirt Is trampled and pulverized pul-verized untl i is simply powdered earth of very line dust and as soon as any strong breeze starts up this dry dust is converted into a whirling cloud filling not only the noses eyes and mouth of the pedestrians I generally but also filling I the Cedestrlans covering the furniture with this fine dirt making It very disagreeable disagree-able for all parties concerned save and except the road supervisor and those whom the city taxpayers have to pay for doing this needless labor Then after the dry season has passed and the winter rains and snow storms set In these dust heaps are converted Into veritable mud holes and what the winds have not carried car-ried away during the dry weather is I rolled up In great rings and clods on the countrymans and farmers wagon wheels and Is thus hauled away and scattered and after about two or three years so far j > s the grade of the road Is concerned con-cerned i has become a thing of the vat vathe question intent be asked Are you not in favor of grading the streets The 1 answer is ready enough I am decidedly not ± n favor of having this work done j in the way i has been done for the past i few roars but when the citys finances will admit of it I am in favor of having the streets properly graded and when this fs done they should receive a covering I I cover-ing of shale or fine gravel to preserve them in their Improved condition And I thus give the taxpayers who are paying I for this work value received fOrt is truly said the city is not able to i gravel the streets This is a well known j fact then let the streets alone until such times as the city is able to make permanent I perma-nent improvement and allow the traveling trav-eling iiuhUs to have the benefit of the good ronds that nature has provided to liberally for them Then there is anothei consideration for the taxpayers Every yard of grading done under the present system costs more than t should Cost and you gentlemen a guardians of the city treasury should j so to it that no work of this kind is done i i and these contracts unless under contract contrcts should be let to the citIzens owning I teams and thus they should be permitted under the direction of the street supervisor super-visor to do this public work and fain I for themselves some assistance in paying their taxes And as sections of streets are so graded under contract they should be graveled or covered with shale by contract I con-tract Inbor I There is information to the effect that Eleventh South steet from State street east for several miles has been graded either by the city or county and in either case this Is an unwise expenditure of the peoples money as there are hardly any citizens who use this street and practically prac-tically it only seems to have been done to benefit n private Indivdual who has a contract for hauling lime rock to the smelters And for the reason that public I money should not be used for the benefit I of any private Indtvduals I enter my protest against such expenditures for the I future Now there Is a more vital matter to betaken I be-taken Into consideration on this subject I and that is the danger of turning to the sunlight and to moisture the vegetable and animal germs that have for long I ages lain under cover and when so disturbed dis-turbed and exposed these organic cells I of animal 1 and vegetable matter becoming becom-ing subject to hent and moisture form a nucleus from which may be scattered seeds of malaria typhoid and other very dangerous diseases The health officer should caution against this exposure Very respectfully etc SEYMOUR B YOUNG I |