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Show REMITS PLEASED WITH IMPLEMENTS Citizens of Southern Section Are Praising American Ad-ministration. Ad-ministration. Residents of tho thriving southeastern southeast-ern section of the city arc vor3' much olaled over tho improvements being made by tho city administration. The paving of Ninth "East street is processing process-ing satisfactorily and us the work-assumes shape some idea of tho future of tlie thoroughfare can bo secured. It will be a magnificont boulevard from tho two union stations out South Temple Tem-ple and down t'o the Country club. Already Al-ready property on Ninth East and on tho side and parallel streets has taken a Iittlo spurt. As the earth is removed from Ninth East, it is used t'o fill in tho streets in that section. Ninth South from the park l.o Eleventh East has been wonderfully improved and that vast area lying ho-.tween ho-.tween Ninth South and Parloy's avo-nue. avo-nue. Tenth and Eleventh East, heretofore hereto-fore the- dumping ground for all tho refuse of the section, has been gradod and filled in and tho former creek running run-ning down from tho hill back of, the. Gilmer placo has likewiso boon filled in. McLclland avenue has roeoiyed the full benefit and in this imnicdiajlo neighborhood houses aro going up in great number. Ton years ago the site of tho present fire station No. f was a forlorn, weedy waste. Tho old narrow gauge Utah Central made its famous 10 degree curve and -1 per cent grado there and the old canal was crossed bv a railroad trestle and a bridge over tho roadwa.y. Not a house savo Allen's stood on the section abovo Tenth East until the entrance en-trance to the Gilmer farm came into view and down Eleventh East nothing was iu sight until tho handsome suburban subur-ban homes were seen located below Harvard avenue. Now, all is changed. The railroad was removed 1)3' the work of the resident's. resi-dent's. Tho city placod the canal through a concrete- conduit, tho crock is filled up except an ordinary street ditch, sidewalks have been put in, McLellnnd avenuo oponcd and the whole section built up. It has trobled property values val-ues and the end is not yet. |