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Show "FOR GREATER SALT LAKE" Stances it will not be necessary. Your committee fwls that this city has outgrown its swaddling clothes and that ..the time has passed when public improvements improve-ments should await the petition of a particular par-ticular section to be Immediately benefited thereby; that this municipality should work upon the principle that public improvements, im-provements, such as sidewalks and street pavements.: must and will .be made unless a sufficient number of property-owners protest, rather than that public Improvements Improve-ments will not be mado until petitioned for. The watchword of the club and of the citizens generally should be "Muntcl- , pal Improvement for Greater Bait Lake." The Commercial club sent various recommendations rec-ommendations In the matter of sidewalks to the City Council last night. These communlcatiofls were the result of the labors of the Commercial dab's special committee on sidewalks. "The Council referred re-ferred the communication, which was as follows, to the Committee on Streets and Sidewalks: ' . Tour committee Is of the opinion that a new sidewalk district should be at once created, embracing; that portion of the city -lying within the property line on the west side of Second East street on the west, the south side of South Temple street on the north, the east side of Seventh East street, on the east, and Including In-cluding the sidewalk on the north side of Fourth South street on the south. This will include twenty blocks of property, or eighty-eight blocks of frontage, thirty-five blocks of which frontage has been already sidewalked and ten blocks of which has been assessed for. The remaining forty-three forty-three blocks will cost the city about H'.00 to grade and about S1500 for that portion of the sidewalks lying within the street intersections. Your committee has gone carefully into tk1s matter of expense to the municipality, and taking into consideration the fact that the statute requires the city to pay one-half one-half of he expense of bringing sidewalks to grade, and taking Into consideration the fact that many of the east and west-sidewalks, west-sidewalks, and therefore a large portion' of the street Intersections, arc laid, and that throughout nearly the entire district stone crosswalks are already constructed, your committee is satisfied that ttiOOO will easily be the limit of the city's expense, aside from the 'cost of advertising. ' Your committee has considered carefully the appropriate width of sidewalks to be constructed In this proposed district, and i has come to the conclusion that inasmuch as this district Is thickly populated, is comparatively close to the business center cen-ter and already has a large amount of six-foot six-foot sidewalk, constructed, that six feet would be the proper width for the proposed pro-posed construction. , A careful estimate has also been made under the terms of the city's existing sidewalk contract, of the cost of construction construc-tion of a six-foot walk to property-owners, and your committee estimates that the construction of such a walk would I cost approximately SIS a rod frontage. When we take Into consideration the fact that real estate within the confines of the proposed district is held at approximately tlOOO a rod and the enhanced value which this real estate will have by virtue of Its added desirability for residence property afforded by sldewslk construction, the ridiculously ri-diculously small expense of the sidewalk construction as compared with the ultimate ulti-mate benefit to the property is, we think, decidedly manifest. Your committee has considered also the matter of extending payments on this sidewalk construction over' a period of years, and, pOlevps thai units tiXEW , '- . , . -t " '. |