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Show IREIW ASS0CIAT1 FWOBS COMMISSI Cardon's Bill for Permanent Exhibit of Utah Products Is Indorsed. . PAVING MEASURE IS UP Property Owners, It Is Said, Arc Willing" io Bear Additional Ad-ditional Expense. Tho bill creating a development com- i mission and providing 5100,000 for permanent perma-nent exhibits of Utah products In Salt Lake unci Ogricn, presented by I?cpre-Hentntlvc I?cpre-Hentntlvc J. E. Cordon of Logan, and the bill allowing the city to assess the cost of aueet Intersection paving against property owners, presented by Senator Denner X. Smith, were Indorsed by the Sail. Lake Real Estate association at lt bl-wcekly meeting in tho Commercial club yesterday. Scrcno J3. Tuttle. tho now president, presided. Mi-. Cordon waa a special gueHt and delivered an address. It was the Ecnso of tho aesoolation that the Cardon bill be enacted regardless of what might -be done in the way of an appropriation for Utah exhibits at tho California exhibits in 1015. Jf the real estnto men wero given a choice, they would prefer the pcrmanmt exhlbltF, according ac-cording to the sentiment expressed at tho meeting. The mttmbors heartily approved ap-proved th measure presented by Jlr. Cardon and were of the opinion that tho exhibits should be established ln time for tho visitors who will pass through Utah on their way to San Francisco and San Blego. Cardon Expresses Views. Sir. Cardon argued that tho shows at home would havo a better effect than any In , California, whevo Utah's exhibit!) would be only parts of big ejqiosltlonH composed of contributions from all over the country. Mo said he was preparing a form of Indorsement to be submitted to commercial, real estate and other as-. as-. soclatlonH ull over the state. When the.e forms are adopted they will be submitted to tho legislature. Salt Lake City la unablo undlr the law to assess property owners tor street Intersection In-tersection paving. Tho bill on this subject sub-ject originated with the Commercial club, and the Heal Estate aseoclatlon has cooperated co-operated with that organisation In having hav-ing It prepared and working In Its Interest. In-terest. It was pointed out at tho meeting meet-ing yesterday that a majority of property prop-erty owners in favor of having their streets paved were willing to bear tho expense. It was the opinion of the members mem-bers that If the law is enacted a general street-paving boom will result. Water Problem Up. The water problem was also discussed. Walter G. Tuttle expressed himself as opposed to large dams in tho canyons from which the city derives Its water supply. He suggeoted that a series of excavations be dug along the streams for storing water. These would be connected with pipes with the necessary shut-off? and eliminate the danger of breakfnjr dams when there Is any large concentration concentra-tion of water. Several units could be established and the water allowed to flow from one Hmall reservoir to another as required, the city drawing its supply from tho lowest excavation. "I doubt whether any dam can foe absolutely ab-solutely safe.' said Air. Tuttle. "Dams all over the world havo brokon, causing caus-ing death and destruction. I understand that the city engineer contemplates erecting a darn 100 feet high in Parley's canyon. If that dam should break It might cause millions of dollara of damage dam-age and perhaps the death of many persons. per-sons. If tho excavations that 1 suggest would be more expensive than a dam In each canyon, one or two of these reservoirs reser-voirs could be constructed now and the number increased as moncv became available. There is a good do?iI of ordinary ordi-nary soil In the canyons nnd not very much blasting would be necessary." A counter suggestion was made that the danger could toe eliminated by constructing con-structing a sories of vory low dams. |