Show LETTERS LEITERS TO THE EDITOR I Another Protest On Storm Sewer Editor Telegram Last week The Telegram informed us that the commissioner of streets is going to force the building of the storm sewer which aroused such protests by the property owners owner along the route of the proposed sewer The only excuse for going ahead with it it is that less hess than BO 60 per cent of the abutting property owners protested protested protested pro pro- tested against it May we ask the city commission wh what t p percentage ge of ot the abutting owners east of Second East demanded this sewer Was Vas it as many as as' as 5 per cent or or was it less Fourth South is one of the b best st paved streets in the city Wh Why should that paving now be torn I up and disfigured before the property property property prop prop- erty owners along the street treet have finished paying th their ir last Installments installments install Install- ments ments' on the assessments True TrueS this sewer may be of ot considerable considerable con con- I le benefit to properties lo located located lo- lo on State street and west on Fourth South But we we fail fall to see seethe seethe j the fairness ot of assessing the cost of this work against property owners of ot East Fourth South any anymore an more than the balance of ot the taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' tax tax- payers payers' fit f the city Inasmuch as the owners in that part will b be any more than people on Capitol Hill The estimated cost of or the sewer Is announced as being What assurance a have bave we that It will not be half halt a million before it Is completed Past performances performances perform perform- ances of the street commissioner would seem to indicate that that would be within the possibilities Take the curb and gutter work that that was staged during conference week at Sec Second nd South and Main street With fences and gua guardrails guardrails guard guard- 1 rails put pit up on all aU corn corners rs causIng causing causing caus caus- ing traffic Jams Jams' and confusion among the thousands of oC visitors jamn jamming ng the streets Would any sane contractor undertaken to do that work at that particular time when he had the balance of the year rear before or of after to do the work vork What could the workmen n ac accomplish accomplish accomplish ac- ac under such handicap with hardly a foot of vacant space to work on on Would I It not naturally Increase the cost of the job many times As the commissioner of ot streets seems to be the chief promoter of ot this storm sewer what assurance I have we that similar bright perI performances performances per per- I would not be staged during Its construction I And that Is not the only department department department depart depart- I ment where the costs are running high How does the cost of the Mountain Dell dam up to date compare with the original bid I And now it is proposed to spend arly anly to patch UD un these 1 v monuments of ot bungling and inefficiency inefficiency which if it they had b been en I built under proper inspection and competent engineering should have held water without any patching True the co commission ha has now Imported imported imported im Im- im- im ported an expert from California Califor nia to advise them In dam build ing In spite of his skill and ex- ex expertness expertness p pertness he doesn't seem to have to advise them about plastering and plaster but the mayor had to go on a honeymoon trip with his superintendent to discover something sup supernatural that would patch the leaks Plenty of ot competent engineers can be found here in Utah to give them expert advice in any construction work they may undertake undertakeS and that with without ut having to retain the city engineer on on the payroll after he heI has resigned I Loud protests are heard of ot the increasing ever-increasing taxes Well the taxes will never come down until unnecessary expenses and waste of ot public funds cease in spite of ot glowing promises made by candidates candidates candidates candi candi- dates before election Yours respectfully S. S J. J I Fletcher Court |