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Show IVIARKED PROGRESS IM PUBLIC WORKS Larger Sum Spent in ,1920 Than in Any Other Year in City's History lights, will b erected In each Mock of the new din r let and the effect will b similar to that achieved on Wain street, which lighting system la famed over I the wholo L'uiled Slate. CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENTS Among Improvement conlemplsted for tne near future), and which but for the Lack of fund would have been undertaken un-dertaken laat year. Include; the paving of Slradford avenue from Highland drive to Fifteenth ti.nl street, curbing curb-ing and guttering of Seventh and K.ghth South atreet eaat from Ninth Expenditure for puhllc Imi .rove- i menu during 1I2' totaled ll.JM.OoO. tlia greateat gum expended for puhllc Improvement by th city during any twelve month period alnce auch work haa been superintended In the office of th city engineer. While; all of In I -workwaa done during the year, part repreeenta contract that were let a , year ago In fulfilling the need for which a 12,000.000 bond lau was voted vot-ed In mil. Kven greater public lin- Erovement work would have been done ad not the tl.Um uoo bond Issue, "pro-poaed "pro-poaed for Increasing tho water facilities facili-ties leen defeated at an election last apruig. Kant atreet. paving of it.--veil avenue ave-nue between Kighth and Ninth Fast ureet. paving of North Temple atreet from Main atreet to Ninth Weal atreet, and the paving of Hryan avenue between Fifth and Sixth HSst atreet. A ayatem of new atorm aewera will urged by Commiaaloner Hurton to put an end to th flood which menace ih. northwestern part of th city annually an-nually during the highwater eaon. Last aprmg Mr. Burton made a complete com-plete aurvey of thl actuation and he found that th present (torra aewera ar not aufficlrntly large to take car of th water, liability to put water west of Main atreet Into tne Ninth South atorm aewer reaulta In the a, nou altuation which confronted the city laat aprlng. when hundreds of baaementa wer flooded and many atreet rendered Impaaaaul. BURTON'S RECOMMENDATIONS. To prevent water from the earner part of th city draining to th west Commiaaloner Hurton declare that ther la necessity for a atorm aewer running from Klfth Fast atreet to the Jordan river north of and paralleling the Ninth Kouth flume. In the northwestern aectlon lying weat of Second Weat and north of First Kouth atreet natural drainage la from the river eaat to Kighth Weat To remedy thl condition h recommends recom-mends organization of a drainage district, dis-trict, beginning at a point w her the STREET PAVING. . Two departurea In atreet paving hv been tried thl year. One la that of placing atreet car track a within the parking area Inside: th paved aectlon. of th atreet, and th other I that of laying paving atrip without curb and . . gutter, and driveway. The former plan waa tried on Heventh 1-:at street and th eerond waa uaed on Kighth Mouth between. Third and Ninth West e atreeta. . . A aurvey of th city completed by . -City Knglneer rlylveater . Cannon ehowed that ther ar now m mllea . f atreeia In th city and that 4 ar paved. Approximately nine mllea of th paving was don during 120, aa s gainst two and one-half mllea th prwvlou yar. , Th paving In th city I divided aa follow: Bitullthlc. H.47 mllea; .heel! rock aaphau, i II 12 mllea- concret. 10.124 mil; ma. carta m, 10 J I miles; other kind of paving. pav-ing. 7.01 mile. 1 lnirlng th year, 11 mile of curb ' ?l7-"',"r "aructd a against mllea In ll. Ther are Zsa.loi mile of atorm and sanitary aewera, and 40.6I mile of eirtewalka In the city and construction of both of these waa more tlian twice a great In 12 aa In tan sewer empties Into the Ureal Kalt lake extending eastwsrd with a syphon under th river to drain off the aur-pltl aur-pltl water. H points out that thl would entail a considerable expense. but would remove a serious menace to that section of the city. Th commissioner commis-sioner obtained authority for the city engineer to make th necessary plana ami estimate for thl work which will be considered early In the new year. Outside of the paving and contract work, the street department graded and surfaced wllh gravel thirty-seven mllea of earth street during the year. REPAIR OF STREETS. The atreet paving repair department laid about U.000 e.iinie yards of asphalt as-phalt repairs in tidditlon to doing a v.iaj amount of other emergency work. Thl department surfaced the bridge over the Jordans-rlver at North Tempi. Second South. Fourth South, Klfth South, Seventh South street and Indiana avenue. It built a retaining retain-ing wall around playgrounda property on Thirteenth Kaat street between First arid Second South streets and paved th new entrance to Liberty park, made necessary by the widening of th driveway at Sixth Kaat and Ninth South street. For the first time since they wer constructed curb snd WATER SUPPLY. . Th wtr upply improvement con- . (1st of th big 1'arley . high line rvln-. rvln-. forced concrete conduit of 40 uoo (100 - ' "H"," ,"")' cP'-y. thre and one-third one-third mile long; the Hunnvslde avenue ave-nue east Iron pressor main, nearly thre miles In length, leading Into the clly distributing system; th enlarge, roent of th Fast Jordan canal and Ita extenalon to lllg Cottonwind. a distance dis-tance of four and one-tenth nnl.-s to provTde Irrlgatioti water for exchange purposes, ahd the Installation of a culi-- culi-- nury water a) stem fr the Tanner and ren ditch system, connect, d wllh tho Hlg Cottoewood conduit and con-isting con-isting of about one mils of elglitecn-Inch elglitecn-Inch -vitrified pipe leading to a million-gallon concrete-lined reservoir Which supplies water to th thirteen nd eight-tenth m!e of redwood pope miilna of twelve. inch to three-Inch diameter.' 4 ,N."-""a""n hv been undertaken with th I rogress rompnny looking to th. removal of Ita power plant. Upon th settlement of thl matter tha I.) per cent of Hlg Cottonwood creek flow obtained recently by exchange will bC avallabl fur us. NEW PUMPHOUSE. Oh account of th dilapidated and dnugerous state of the old pumphnusc Mid foundation at the Ctah lake nnmnJ gutter In all part of th city were repaired. Many repair also were mud to sidewalks. To furnish employment for men last winter a road building program waa undertaken during the winter months. The road leading from the city west on North Tempi street to connect with the Snllalr program waa Improved Im-proved under this arrangement. This work was done at a big saving to the city because th necessary machinery wa on the ground having ln uaed on tho siieedway construction work Work also waa done on th link of the Waaatch drlv connecting the Kleventh avenue boulevard with th Waaatch Honnevllle boulevard. A large amount "f preliminary work Incidental to th year' .trr-et paving program also was exoruied to find additional work fur Idle men. FEW HORSES USED. Ing plant, and because f the worse -undltlon ot the old centrifugal pumps th associated canal companies. Including Includ-ing th clly, hav built a fin new Immpliouae and Installed four new hlch efficiency screw pumps each of 20O second feet capacity. Th old pumps hav been overhauled and placed for -ea.-rvo purposes, in adjoining (lumphouar. New headgates. outlet r hannei and trash rack have also been built. Aa a reault of then Improvements Improve-ments the plant rapacity la nearly don-bled don-bled and la put In flrt-clas condition. condi-tion. Th present capacity la 1 Goo second sec-ond -feet, or on billion gallon dally. Th total cost of these Improvement I IIb.0v0. Various pinna have, been prepared ' for park Improvements. Among other things th swimming pool in l ionecr 1 park haa Inn rebuilt. Th aewer maintenance work haa lwn carried forward effectively and th 2M mile of sewers throughout the clly have been oeralcd very satisfac torily. Th sewage .pumping plant has been operating perfectly throughout .the yar. AS TO LIGHTING. I Flan wer completed and th con-tract con-tract let for Uir enew lighting units during tho year. The three new units more than doubled th "whitewa)" iliatrl.-t. which lias previously been con-fined con-fined to Main street, and th Installation Installa-tion coat will be approximately (too -000. Th new dlatrlct Includes Statu street from South Tempi In Fourth Snit. Krusdwsy fro mWeat Tempi,, to Kccond Fast street, and i "mirth HoiWi from Main to Stat streets Uralsr the contract that wa let. fourteen four-teen sisndards, each bearing three arc ' in street detriment waa entirely motorlxed last year save for the horse drawn aprinkling wagon. The department depart-ment now ha fifteen motor trurka. It atlded to ita equipment a 65-horsepow. er caterpillar tructor. which has been used In connection with street grading and by arrangements with the war department de-partment the department obtained from the government at lea than com flee Pa. lard trucks. The city shops and barn at Seventh Sev-enth South between Stat and Second r.ast streets, were nelarged this year making It pos.11l.le to remove ' the waterworks shops from city Creek canyon, where they had Ihoiiic Inconvenient In-convenient and unstghtly. a new tract of land was purchased adjoining the city b.rns. which will be used rven-fually rven-fually for sdillllrtiMl purpose. For the .tiro being it I. fr tlminK , and waterworks suppll. prevloualy liii: e.J 111 i iti Crock. In a.Mltion to th motor equipment th bnrna wer inutile to aci-ommotlat twenty-four head of horses and storage of one year- supply of hay and grain. A modern mod-ern machine shop was established on th second floor and an elevator waa Installed to lift automobiles from the street floor to the repair shop Two new gasoline tanks were InatJilleU. Increasing In-creasing th capacity of th loading station to 1100 gsltoti. & : |
