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Show Don't Try to Throw Col 3 Vttcr. The Telegram is informed that property-holders, in front of whose homes pavements are to be built, have received bills from the city calling for the cost of the work BEFORE EVEN THE GRADING HAD BEEN STARTED. I ; One case in particular is to the point: Six months ago the property-owner was notified that the Council Coun-cil had ordered paving done on his block. Six months have flown and not one bit of work has been done towards building the pavement. The other day the owner received a bill from the city 6tating that he was delinquent on, his paving taxes. The property-owner tried to find where any effort had been made to begin the work of paving his street, but gave up the task as a hopeless job. Now, it seems to be the rankest kind of nonsense to ask a property-owner to pay for street paving before be-fore the work is begun on it. Everybody knows that it is from ten to eighteen months after a street is ordered paved before the work is started, AND IT IS RIDICULOUS TO ASK A PROPETY-OWN-ER TO PAY FOR THE i WORK BEFORE IT IS DONE WHEN HE HAS NO PROOF THAT IT EVER WILL BE DNE. J ' . The Telegram believes that all the streets of Salt Lake should have pavements, but if the city is to require re-quire property-owners to pay for the pavements before be-fore the work is started, the paving campaign will r.ot come to much. The municipal government ought to encourage paving and not try to throw cold water on the property -owner at the outset. . |