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Show j SIDEWALK PETITION STARTS A MERRY R3W 1 North Bench Property Owners Are Opposed to K. B. Anderson's Methods of Improvement. A vigorous protest is going up from many property owners on tho north bench over a sidewalk petition that has just been filed with City Recorder Critchlow, and which is expected to come before the City Council for confirmation con-firmation at the regular meeting Monday, Mon-day, Februarj' 29th. Tho petition Is Intended In-tended to create a eldowalk" district of the territory running from Brigham north to Ninth street and irregularly east from A street. The petition was circulated by R. R. Anderson, and It Is understood that 30 per cent of the property owners affected affect-ed attached their signatures. But It 13 also said that a large majority of tho signers live in the immediate neighborhood neighbor-hood of the Eagle Gate, while the tax will be levied also on property far up on the bench, where there Is hardly a house to a block. The mo3t vigorous kick, however, is made because of the part that R. R. Anderson is playing in the matter. The district is mapped out by him, it is claimed, and is sb arranged that, although al-though there are sidewalks across the street from practically all his property, it touches only one spot, and that for a short distance. The people In tho Immediate Im-mediate neighborhood fcol that Mr, Anderson An-derson has planned to get the sidewalks for his part of the city at the expense of the other people and greatly enhance the value of his own land by placing extra taxcfi on tho property of his neighbors. A vigorous protest will go Into the Council from a number of the property owners hlch un on the bench who cannot see the need of sidewalks in that part of the city, and who cannot seo the equity of Mr. Anderson's method of securing sidewalks anywhere. |