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Show STKEET SPRINKLING. A Timely Hint From a Property Owner. To the Editor ok The Salt Lake Times: As The Times in the past was the tirst paper to arouse the slumbering intellects of some of Salt Lake's citizens to the fact that a real cstalo movement was at band, so perhaps you will now apply your vigorous grasp to the dust question. No mention has yet been made of it in the morning papers which seem to regard it as a matter of course. In my judgment, and I tind hosts of other people with lue, this matter is of more importance than all tho other questions--before the city council put together. Tho continuance of it means ill health to those breathing it, destruc-lion destruc-lion of properly, disgust of would-be investors, and, generally speaking, a loss of niillions to tho city. Fifty thousand thou-sand dollars, even if that were needed, would be well spent in combatting the evil this year, as thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands, will see Salt Lake City the coming summer, who never thought of coming here before. Strange to say; there are found here individuals who have been accustomed so long to this periodical affliction that they ' seem to . like it and resent any criticisms. I liict one such yesterday. "What is the city council doing to abate this?" I asked. "Oh, I guess they'll get around to it after awhile," was tho reply. "Anyhow I, don't see "what you've got to kick about, I've had this for forty years." This same paty has grown, rich out of real estato, formerly worth nothiug. If thero are ruaijy pf this sort in tho city council, I say advisedly, let our liberal leaders look ahead. The thousands thou-sands of new comers to this placo don't caro n lig for ancient history. They aro, like The Times, for progress. T. |