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Show HSURMGE RATES Plan of Mayor Samuel Park Will Save Citizens $100,-000 $100,-000 a Year FIRE RISKS ARE LESS Underwriters Compiling1 a New Schedule of Premiums ' for Committee W th n the next few weeks alt Lake w 11 be placed under a new fire nsurance rat ng n which a general red etion of about "o per cent n premium charges will be male Th s means a saving of at least $100 000 a year to the bus ness interests of the c tv The new rat ng is being prepared by the fire underwr ters now and will be subm tted to the rat ng committee at 8an Francisco Cop es of the new rat ng also will be subm tted to Mayor Samuel C Park and the c ty conim ss on whose efforts extend ng over the last two years will ha e Drought about the ex pected increase n i.ren um charges The dee ease- will be made on the bas s of comprehens ve reduct ons n the c ty s percentage of fire r sk including a o gger and better water system a more efflc ent and better equipped fire department more thorough hollaing or d nances and a general decrease of fire 1 ab litv Started bv Park Soon after his entrance nto office m 1912 Mayor Park took np with the local board of fire underwriters the matter of a new rating of the c tv ask ng for a reduct on of at least o per cent In reply the nnderwr ters made a complete survey of the c tv from the standpoint of fire proteet on and subm tted a list of recommendat ons for improvements that should be carr ed out or gotten under wav before the reduct on could be made these recommendat ons concerned the water unpl and the fire department ch efly Tak ng them at face value JIayo Park and the citv comm ss on groceded to follow them almost 1 terallj ubstant al improvement gauged ou fu tore needs have been made since then in the water supplv and the fire depart ment In many wavs the c ty has la d plans for even greater improvements than recommended Some of tbee are already actual ties particularly the strengthen ng of the fire department and extens ve enlargement of the water supply is be ng carried on as rapidly as possible Acknowledging these improvements the nnderwr ters have assured the mayor that the new rating will nclade snbstan t al reduct ons though tnef have not comm tted themselves to the exact re duct on to be recommended to the rat ng board at an Franc sco City Will Insist City ofSc als are confident however that at least a 2o per cent reduction in the city s key rate will be made They are prepared to insist npon that much and f necessary the major and the fire ch ef will go to San Francisco to appear before the rating committee It is not expected that th s w 11 be necessary however in v ew of the acknowledgment of the local underwriters that the city has compl ed with its recommendat ons in pract cally every instance One of the pr ncipal recommendat ons of the underwriters called for the con strnct on of a reservo r of at least 30 000 000 gallons capacity on the east bench at an elevat on suffic ent to feed the intermediate system To meet this requ rement literally the c ty was forced to apply to the department of the in ter or at Washington for a s te on the Fort Douglas mil tary reservation Strong object ons were made to the ap pi cation b the war department and t was only a few daj s ago after nearly two ears of cont nuous rer resentat on and argi ment that the appl cat on was given final approal 6 is for the con struct on of a reservo r of o en greater capac ty than reeommende 1 have been called for bv the oitj and t s proposed to beg n co struct on of one n t of the reservo r with n tho next tl rtj days Tvew Supply Main Vnother nportant r onmeulaton called for a new b ppl a u to be con n"cted w tl tho B g Cottonwood o d t just south of where t mpt es n o tar lev s reser o r so as t pp tho ri s trict south of N nth 80 th pi ng the Parle) s eauvo ond t f o 0 b duty Work s now nlcr o su h a supply a n lown Th rtccntl South street to oit $10 00 The big storage resenoirs be ng bu It on the lakes at the head of B g Cotton wood can on also were recommended by the underwriters These w 11 be complot ed w thin another year and more than a half billion gallons of water will be stored for the purpose of eq ahz ng the flow of B g Cottonwood stream Another mportant n prove nent w 11 be the constr ct on of a g gant c reser vo r n Parley s canjon to boll noro than a 1 Ibon gallons of water enoigh to last the r t s xt lays f all other so rces of s pnl werr t off The plan also n dci a rcse or n C ty Creel can on jl oe the I j,l 1 oe Mains All Cleaned Most of the lownto vntcr na 1 ave een pa rl 1 om 1 1 an n n th tl 1 w ters recon mendat on and the r a a t g atl nc caned In a 1 0 c of tl p Iph IpU U bo c ty has netthp ggp 0 f tl dprvrtprs n th c cn pro n ft than callr fo y wr c I n tt I th 0 n t n H h 0 Ipj art n pnt a her n a p gun 7 d so that t no n r f u I the firofi(.ltug h p of HrgpAner can c t MoIp n ot a ar t 9 has been tnll d at tho at nu t the til x h n I u v r h Ip p 1 a np sta on w th apo ppp ntr ppara h 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