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Show I AOAINiiT llOJIi: IM)USTK. Tlio tlljr Ailmlnlitrnllon l'orpetrnlo a lllarlni linpoilllon Upon the 1'iople, IMurVtiertt Aew l)er Blr feeling sure that you at len.t are fllcu tly to our homes and hi me Interest, I am Impelled to an appeal ap-peal to you to make public ft danger that t think will prove ft serloua lots If not a lasting dlrgrace to our com cm nlly. tn church and out of It ou have pertlalentl advucnlvd home lu duilry In whatever gulto It prercnts lttelf. What then can lo jour thoughts and that of your readers In the action taksn Jrsterday by the board of public works regarding the awardlngof a contract Involvlhg an luimonie amount of money to i tuple who aro wholly without other Irteresls lu this Territory than lbs protU they Kill make out of our hardly earned rnonoy The onlng of the bids rov.alrd the fact that we liavon local lino of con-traitors con-traitors who appear to show that tiny are In every way able and worthy to ncelvn tho artard. Although their bid was aome thirty thousand thou-sand Hollars lower than the lilUmt bidder and thirteen thousanl lower lhn tho next It waa still unlor-tunnlely unlor-tunnlely four thousand hlghct than the weilthyaud Jiowerful llarbir l'avlng (Jomiau), to whom tho contract was given, aud this ltry amount whkli acoros ct our ililrtnswoull willingly donate ti make gold mutt Im thn ix. cuo for undlng a huudreU thoueand dollars intlrtly out of our chance of ever handling again. Moro than this, with what kind of satisfaction cmi wu work over our lieuches, our disks ami cur tool", taming hardly tii apeolnl tax we arn inui) elled lo pay, nnd mi In our mind's ii u hundrwui of Uborirs In far away Trinidad, Bouth Anierlta, llrjglng up nnhalttim lhat Is togi to uw olk for retlnlig, and then riimes here for us to walk and drive on. 'lula In the face of the roven fact Hint we lava n stnel In this oil) that has been constructed entirely of Ulali material ly homo contractors con-tractors and homo tabur that has lamed tho examination of Its uwuirs, and hem accipted and nll for willingly by the illy niilhorlllea. Mora than this the oofle who own this strivt referred tu, with scmu sixty or seventy othirs who will have tn ny for this I re.ent award, have begged the city autuorltlea by iwUllon to give Utah a ihaucn by udotlng this material In all future road making aud have signified their wlllllignisi lo ay for II. Onoyrnr ago whnuBiale street waa lo be pived it loml bidder Mlered to llo this work for some J200U leas than would auy ouo else, 1 inn told their bl t was rejected for the reason their material wa not known nnd the illy dIJ not wish to ixtrlmeut Willi the C le,s money Hlure Hut II in, and loovircome this objection them loial pavers have ixpemled many thousands at dollare In experlintntal work, Improvement Im-provement of maihltiery, mine and lant, have ixeculeU tn the avowed tatltlactlon of the city's engineer and other authorities, one wholobloik Le at les many thouiaud feel of sldi walks have convluied tho cltlzeua geutrally Uiat the) have nnd can do good work, aud et the labtis are turned against them, fhu forrasr ob-ertlou ob-ertlou must be nimovcd. Their ma lorlal is proven and till heoauso they me asklug a Itllle more this lime, we who have lo pay for ll must submit to an exptrlmeut alter all, for while It Is known that the Umber company have dono pood work many times we alio know n great deal of It has bieu oou-demnedln oou-demnedln olbir cities. If wo ate met by the argument that their work must ultimately tie matin good unler their bond, tan we not answer that this a piles with tqual lone to the homu contractors. con-tractors. In a word, must we sutler this lu-Jtiftlce lu-Jtiftlce without I rolest. I1 or one, had 1 ten thousand volus, they should be heard loudly against tills (oil). 1 frtl ashamed and mortlllud that greater comlderatlous and griatir charity Is xiol bestowid at home. ltcspiil'ully, Jab. O. Watson. |
