Show 1 SEWER PROBLEM IS PRESENTING MANY NEW DIFFICULTIES Council Divided in Opinion as to Just What Should Be Done For Tor Sale Sale Sale-at at le less es s than cost as goo good I or better than when built one outlet sewer Reason for selling owner wants want something better Xo No reasonable offer offe refused Apply to Salt Lake Lake- City It is not likely that the cit city council counci will authorize the tho above but it is a safe bet that a. a majority of the body a awell as well rell as the mayor would be he willing t to sell the outlet sewer at far less than it has cost to date Tho rho outlet sewer is about as poor noor a apIece apiece apiece piece of public work as was ever e donin lone don in a city It is more like a sieve than thana a sewer ReIer It leaks an and aud then some ome This Thi was evident yesterday afternoon when a number of the city citi officials including the mayor a majority of th the member of the coun council il members of the board boar of public works worl the city en engineer ineer am his chief assistant and aud seera several others other I mado made an inspection tl trip over the i pro ro jeet One did not need to bo be an en- en giner iner to see at a glance g that the job jol was a poor one and that several thousand thousand thou thou- sand Rand dollars will have bae to be he spent in ii repairing it before it is fit for use U Jus what the these c repairs will consist omi st of is a 1 question that has not been settled Failure of or Contractors After the Campbell Building company com COlli pany pan the ori original contractors hat had worked on the job for months it was as evident that they the theart arc art not going going to make a success of it and nd the coi contract tract was taken taken ta ta- ta ken away from them This too at a alimo time limo when they announced l that they were practically through h with the job Ol The new sewer broke under the Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon on Short Line tracks on Ninth North Korth street treet and after weeks of trouble P. P J J Moran was called in to fix up that part parl of tho the sewer ewer From Front the looks of the work ork which Moran oran did that that- part of the sewer will Im be hc all ri right ht bat the several sev 50 sev- sev eral hundred t thousand feet wo we wet t an anti cast east of that point wj will have to bo be fixed in sonio somo way before it can be used With a pressure pressure of six pounds about abou one one half hall the pre pressure that will be user used med when the sewer is in use me tho the trip yesterday yesterday yes yes- showed between seventy five lh c and leaks with no telling when an anti and i where another leak might start Some of the members of the council were of the opinion that the best thing thing- to do I was to patch the thing up as well wen as possible for the present and as soon as possible commence e work on a newline new newline newline line to bo be bof of cast iron pipe others were of th the opinion that the tho best thin thing that could be do no would be 10 e to uncover the entire line lino and rp recover over it with from ei eight ht to twelve inches of concrete That the pipe as lai laid bv hy the thC Campbell people will IiII not answer tho the purpose for which it was intended was evident to every person present on the in inspection trip yesterday Pumping Plant Visited an inspection of the pipe pipeline lino line the party part yi visited the new pumping pump pump- ing sag plant which has been ben built near Eighth Big North and Seventh West Here fere I everything was found in first class con con- From the pumping plant the party part went to 10 the new North Temple I street aqueduct which is being built huilt by Davis an and pr Hero is was found that the contractors on tractors had completed a little over one block of the tho work and aDd were about to cease work Inquiries developed elop d the feet fact R. R t that the contractors han had ben hen bothered with water so much that they had decided work for fora a week pek or or two in the hope hop that they could auld push the remainder er of the work at a 3 greater speed pePa The rhe contract of Davis Dais and aud Trouser calls MS for the completion of tho the work by Juno Tuno 1 failure to complete the aqueduct b. b by that flint date dato will lay the contractors eon eon- tractors liable to a fine line of 23 2 per day A representative of tho the firm states that it would be bo better for them to pay the fine fino than to try tn- and continue the work under antler tim tho pr present ent conditions as they could 1 do more in ono ODe day ay under udder favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able conditions than they tIle can do at it the present timo time in three or 01 four foul days Mr 1 heuser denied emphatically that they was about to tIn throW up tho the contract contract con con- tract act an and said aid that as soon as conditions condi ondi changed the they would be bo ready to rush the tho wor work The sewer question as aswell aswell aswell well as the Davis and Houser contract will likely come before the council to to- night |