Show THE PAVING ami business men in provo are most as fiu right in offering their protests against the class of asphaltum asphalt nm paying put down on J street as that is a pronounced failure we doubt however if there were any question in the minds of our city fathers about the uon acceptance of that quality of work sidewalk or not sidewalk became the question and many protested strenuously against any sidewalk paving whatever this year in fact the majority of business men who expressed themselves before the council last night were in favor of delay in the matter of paving for which cause the resolution was laid on the table by tho council with the tacit understanding that it will not ba called up again thia winter there may be an advantage in tho postponement of paving until nest year but the fact to us is hardly apparent paving is a growing necessity in provo and there are men who would never get ready to pave if they had their own say so about it the believes that the property owners of a street proposed to be paved should have the right to say whether or not paving shall be done on said street but it does not believe that one or two have the right to say that it shall not be done perchance a vacant may such a lot should an equal portion of the assessment with the ground adjoining that may have erected on it fine buildings the reason for this is that improvements on every aide of a vacant lot improve the same and enhance it in value therefore it is no more than right that taxes be levied on the vacant lot for public improvements such as paving in the same proposition as the ground possessing build iuga besides there being men who care not for improving their own property and hence naturally object to public improvements there la a class ever looking for better times more mony less taxes etc such men lull them selves into a mode of indifference as compared it d the present lideal of the fable and in their imagination agi nation look only forward to the golden future that never comes now is the time or at least when the weather will perm ittu commence paving in a small way each year will will bring about taxes and increased necessities for improvements prove ments and each year will see hard times for fume of our business men though i times for mhd therefore bo alieves in grasping the situation arwe and it and not postponing till to morrow things that can be done to day |