Show rl 0 J 1 Blocking Progress I H HI 1 I J of the city board of education l have rescinded a former objection to tot I t the c building of a spur track from the Salt Lake Lako Utah line on Ninth South street to tor f r f warehouse sites on the south side of this street We Ve are pl pleased sed to note th this change chang jn in jn t the attitude of the board of education f for the simple reason that it is more in harT harmony har har- T- T mony w with th the progressive spirit which should ever dominate an organization of this kind It is hard to understand why and how the present objection was aise which h in the I final analysis is a protest against building sixty or seventy feet of track to a site which sis is now ind industrial property and always has been been- considered ered a prospective industrial site i j r For this reason reason it is difficult to compre- compre j bend h nd the viewpoint of the protestants who wh assert that it will destroy a valuable resi resi- f denal district The site at issue has been a vacant for years If it had been a commanding command- command i ing g residential district it long since would hav have becI been established as such The fact of s the the matt matter r is that it has remained idle awaiting awaiting awaiting await- await ing th the state of development which would E convert it to the purposes now proposed Real Keal l estate men bankers and business men are generally agreed that it is industrial rather than residential property The view is apparently apparently apparently I supported by the h city zoning com corn mission One of the unfortunate elements in Salt L kd history is that m minority groups are re much given to blocking progress whenever 1 J and wherever possible In this site we have havea a valuable industrial district Immediate improvements are dependent upon spur track with a line already laid Sixty vor or 01 seventy feet of track is the only barrier barrierI I to to another progressive step forward or for the city as a whole It is difficult to understand 1 wiy Ii y cerf certain erf in individuals a whose property it in- in I S 'S I t rests rest are a mile or more away from the propos proposed d district should be so active in the V fight against improvement |