Show Street Dept Saves When the books close December 31 the street and irrigation department under the American administration administration administration adminis adminis- will have saved the city the gigantic sum of as compared d with the Morris administration for 1905 or nearly the cost of running the department for one year under the present like business-like methods For the amount of work vork done clone by r this department this will be a monument to the American party which will ill always stand The department has done twice th work vork of any other administration and with ith only half the money Thus it is shown that the business methods adopted in this department are fo four r times as efficient as those under any previous administration Yet this enormous showing was vas made in iu the face of the fact that more work ork has been done on ou the streets iu in in the last two years heavy r floods have visited the city and severe storms have played havoc with the streets Under the alleged economical Morris administration tion the of running the street department for 1905 was while the American street supervisor did more work and ran th the department in 1906 for a saving of On this same basis the saving this year will be more than The annexed report shows the truth of the statement At the present time the American supervisor cares for twenty miles more of streets than any super super- supervisor other super super- visor The city ty r has miles of streets Under the tIle American administration the miles of ditches have practically P ia all been bee rebuilt and all wagon brill bridges s foot bridges and flumes I ha have re b been iTe- iTe p paired ired No other administration ev ever r graded and turn- turn pik pd d more than eight or ten teu blocks of streets The American super supervisor isor has graded and blocks of streets this year and yet saved to the city The extraordinary floods of this year threatened the city with damages of f but through the able efforts of the department they cost the city not a dollar over oyer the it was as compelled to pay for labor Another nother expenditure this year was vas 1100 1100 for painting painting painting paint paint- ing fifty r sprinkling wagons yet this was as done at ata a price far less than it was vas ever done doue for the city before In Iu 1906 Salt Lake City was visited by byrain a terrific rain and aud windstorm which cost the city more than 1600 1600 to put the streets in iu proper condition again The foll following wing is a list of expenditures of the street department from J January nuary 1 Ito to September 30 1907 Expenditure of street department January 1 to September bel 30 1907 Streets payroll a Troll for labor IIri Irrigation tion payroll for labor 71 v Sprinkling payroll for labor I Special Appropriation Appropriation- La Labor bor payroll Total payroll i oll for labor 54 Material and supplies bought Gross Gloss expenditure re 1 02 19 Credits Credits- P. P J. J Moran f n. n rock quarry I 0 J f Hanley y Ritchie macadam f T Board of public works yorks Waterworks Ya 20 Liberty park ark 2860 V t Land and water yater commissioner commissioner I Board of health 2815 2815 Plumbing inspector Total 98 Net expenditure Credit Supply Account Account- 3 new nev on ou hand baud 3 AD Implement l lenient supplies 1 on hand Total 21 I Poll Tax Collections Collections- 1 j iMia i. i i C Cash as I 1 2433 01 00 t 4 r f L Labor a 1 0 r 7 5 01 00 ot Total 00 w 4 1 |