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Show lilHEl SLOW UP DURING PERIOD OF IH I Elaborate Plan for Extension Exten-sion of Municipal Work Defeated by Vote on Bond Issue. CONSERVATION CAUSE OF RETRENCHMENT Record for Past Decade, However, Shows Much Progress by Salt Lake City. 'l'h. entrance of the United States info t ho world war tocrirl thai, the rerun! rer-un! of RUT for public improvements In Salt hake City should fall below the high mark of 10 K. In the fn 11 of It) tit, the city commission determined upon the most elaborate, plan I or public improvements that had ever hceu contemplated for the city. After oiti- K" vermin-nl uoetarod war, the prac-m prac-m ability oi the plan began lo be ques-l ques-l loned. i ' r i g i u a 1 1 y It was in i ended that the taxpayers "should he asked to nut home ;i In 'Mil issue of Sl-'.-oo, ,mn. Under a fire f pro Irs l l tVjn i I! persons conversant with i tie na t tonal nit nit ! Ion. and foreseeing foresee-ing lie call of the country for every available dollar, it was out to S1.30U.0OU. Many argued against the holding of a bond cle-'ihMi, but tin city officials had planned lung and carefully. Their study ni'd Ih-cii oi the needs of till: city. They vv t'c yet to become aware of the needs ..f flic country. To I he populace, not Hardened directly with the city's affairs, and aroused by the spirit Ot the times, ; lie quest inn wan put in a special bond elect ion. The bond issue was over- nelmingly defeated. Improvements Slow Up. Taking t he vote as an expression of i he wishes of the community for re-t re-t r.-nchm. -nl In the interest ot war conservation, con-servation, the nty com mission began as i apidiy us possible to slow up the machinery ma-chinery of public Improvement. During the coming ear there will ho, but little lei i over from i hi year to be completed, com-pleted, but the problem of revenue will make this lutle much from the standpoint stand-point ot financing. Though the del eat of the bond election elec-tion ha Hod the initiation of new ven-uircs ven-uircs public Improvements during the past season, work costing approximately nail a million dollars was done during the past yen r, most of it in completion of work begun in the years 101j and nut;. As Salt Lake stands today, it has progressed pro-gressed far in the past decade in pub'ic improvements. Of pa veil si roets it has YU.nT miles; curb and gutter, 1L,;12 miles; sewers, i'lt.-n mhos; water mains, Lit!ii.ri miles; graded streets, 1 15 miles. The streets of the city are lighted by 1752 lights. Contracts for street paving in 1017 totalled to-talled $ U2!',o:i:i.5u, as against more than s.'ino.unti in KUti. I'avmg improvements con traded in liUtt and completed this year cost $L'7S.7.21, making a total cost of $407,f.2ti.' 1 for work in progress this ear under contracts of the two years. The cost of work act ually accomplished during the past year was $205,725.87. Less Pavement. A total of 5.;15 miles of pavement was la If I during the past year, as against f. 15 In 1JMU. Six paving contracts were awarded, as against fifteen in lyiti. The one big paving improvement of the year was the laving ol a concrete road on Heck st reet from the Warm Springs to the Davis county line, a distance ot 2.72 miles, at a total cost of $3r,t'.t6.?!. Of the expense, the city bore $2-167. the county $lS,ti;ifl.51 and the owners of abutting abut-ting properties $13, 150. IS. Two other important paving extensions undertaken this year aJe Ninth fcjouth si reet from Main street to Fifth East and from Sixth East to Ninth East street, tlie first at a cost of $55.704. 34, the abutting properties paying $43. RTJ'.24 and the city J 12,512.10, and the second at a cost of ;i0,12S.4U, $24.607. lit to the abutting properties and $5521.27 to the city, 'ompletion of the two extensions j will gie a paved way from Main street I to Eleventh East street on Ninth South ! street. Tlie cost of curb and gutter was $49,- ' 12:i.u;. of which S241O.20 represents work actually done during the past year. The cost of sidewalk paving laid during the year was $ ! I.t;u7.33, while the contract cost for the past year and unfinished contracts of R'lti was $15,!i5ti.S2. Water Extended. Twenty water ma in extensions were laid during the year, aggregating 45.3 miles, as against 50 miles last vear. Tho cost was $20.4M.0G. The totul cost of sewer extensions was $13,64.51. Work costing $157, :;;(!. 75 was done on miscellaneous miscel-laneous Improvements. The total cost of work done by contract during the year, on contracts of ly 16 and 1017, was $"lUo,- Next spring will sec completion of the new outlet sewer, which will bring into service the new main trunk sewer that will drain the sewage from the southern half of the city and practically double t he city's sewer service. It will mark the completion of the sewer improvements improve-ments provided for in the bond issue of four years ago, when $375,000 was -authorised for sewer improvements and .25,eou for waterworks improvements. The contract for completion of the new outlet sower is with J. Mellen. Tlfe trench is being dug by a dragline excavator, exca-vator, tho installing of tho pipe and the backnlling of thy trench being completed by liie machine as it proceeds, the apparatus ap-paratus being new to public improvement work in tins locality. A new sewer pumping plant was completed com-pleted at Ninth North and Eleventh We-! si reels, at a cost of $37, 351. replacing the old plant at Seventh North and Eighth West streets. Bridge Built. At the .ioint expense of the city and count y, SI 4. i25.x each, a new concrete bridge was built over the Jordan river at Tw enl y-iirst South street, the total cost being $2S.:;5i.7'i. Dredging of the surplus canal at a cost of $51 . Iti5.ii;; was completed this year, the work being done to stay tioodtng of adja-i adja-i enl la nds. Muring the past year the city maintained main-tained a muuicip.M market as a means ot controlling the cost of food products to some extent. The establishment of a permanent market, advocated by many, was deferred, aioitg with many other improvements, im-provements, when the commission became convinced that the exigencies of the times w ouid call for t it; id retrenchment. A con.-ideruMe saving in the cost of street repair work was effete, in the .siai'lishment of an asphalt and eonere;.-. t'lpair plant in eoum-dion with the street department. T-u thousand, three hundred hun-dred and ei::iiyy-one s ;uaro yards of , cement ve,v repaired, at a cor-t of s5i;'mi.;,h, or 5n - cuts, a square yard, whereas where-as the cost mi. iff conira.t would have .' -Men 1.75 a s.rna re a rd. or 5 I .l .75. Ti tutal cost of the piant was $XU'.'U. |