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Show CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY, City Engineer and Board of Works Keep tho Contractors Guessing. Contractors doing work for Salt Lake City havo troubles of their own "when they rccelvo inntructlon from tho city engineer and have tho order countermanded counter-manded a couplo of days later by the Board of Public Works. In supervising the laying of tho ten miles of pavements that aro now under way, the city engineer engi-neer recently gave orders to tho contractors contrac-tors to lcavo breaks In tho pavement whoro an alley way or drlvo way comes into tho mlddlo of a block. As this alteration will Involve an outlay of many thou lands of dollars that havo not boon provided for "by tho City Council, Coun-cil, tho Board of Public Works countermanded counter-manded this order, and gavo directions that tho contractors should lay tho pavements pave-ments straight along. This ruling was disputed by the city engineer, who maintains that when tho heavy wagons and other vehicles get to driving over tho pavemonts at tho points where thero aro alloy ways Into tho block, tho pavement will break nnd wear out much sooner. But to mako tho breaks and pave them with cobblo stones would undoubtedly cost a great deal of monoy. as with tho ton miles of pavements thero ore over forty of theso breaks to bo provided pro-vided for. Tho city attorney was appealed to to boIvo tho dilemma, as tho contractors did not know what to do. Tho cRy attorney attor-ney gavo It as his decision that they should go ahoad with tho work of paving and whenever a break was necessary thoy should Inquire of tho abutting property prop-erty owners whether thoy would stand their share of tho expense. If they will not, they will have to stand It all tho samo later on, as tho pavement woars out and breaks. ' |