Show CITY DOES ITS PERT PART IN iNS S IMPROVING Spends Nearly Million fillion and Third in Needed Betterment Betterment Betterment Bet Bet- WorK MUCH MEANS ULTIMATE SAVING TO TAXPAYERS Property Vali Valt ValLs s in z Parts Enhanced by Conveniences Conveniences Conveniences Con Con- Installed The public improvements in la Salt Lako City during 1910 exceeded those of any other year in the history of the tho city rity according to tho annual report of ot City Engineer George Georgo F. F McGonagle as presented to Mayor John Jolin S. S Bransford A total of was spent In Improvements of or which the city's portion por pore tion was tho the abutting property property property prop prop- erty owners paying the rest Tho The improvements consisted of or miles of asphalt pavement miles of sidewalks 1210 miles of curb and miles of sewer laterals 74 4 mile ratio of main sewer bower 2155 miles of water water water wa wa- ter main extensions tensions and 12 n miles of water supply mains In addition to this there thero were constructed under permit by bJ private parties miles milos of sidewalks mile of curb and gutter sutter milo mile of of concrete alley pavement and mile of concrete street pavement Among Amon the other public Improvements were the dredging of the tho surplus canal and the construction of a a- QI h line lino for or tho the water system In City cr creek ck can- can yon 3 According to the report the cost ost a total o of 20 and by its Ils use tho the surplus canal has been du dug sixty feet wide and seven feet deep The dredge drodge e Is II now removing dirt at the rate of yards ards a day T The report says s the tho annual floods cost and the tho dredge will wl therefore more than pa pay for or itself In one y year vear ar h by b taking out tho the flow now of the tho Jordan river at Twelfth South street and giving tho the Jordan the water from Crom time the lh city which heretofore It has been unable to h handle without Hooding flooding thousands of acres of ot ground In the west cst and northwestern parts of oC the tho city High Lino Line Effects Saving The high line cost the city and anel through h It the tho ell city gets a plentiful supply of water for the tho north bench Tho The reservoir for tho the water vater Is of largo large c size sir and tho the cost but small In comparison compari son ron with the Improved conditions It will bring about Street Improvements are shown an SA fol ol- ol lows Iowa one Fifty blocks of street t pavement twenty six and amI one half blocks of or side side- walks 51 68 linear feet of ot alley pavement private surveys ten team blocks adjusted blocks block of ot levels le run blocks of I grade laid miles of monument lines run raIn el eighty monuments placed ten subdivisions sub sub- divisions annexes and additions checked S Tho The total length of streets In Salt Lake Ilke City Is 50 of which miles are nrc Improved dt as 8 follows Macadam 2285 miles concrete mile asphalt miles stone stono mile milo asphalt and stone Alone I miles The Tho largest paving contract In tho the history his his- tory of ot the city was let Jet August 13 1010 1910 to P P. J. J Moran l for tho the paving of Second West r street from Third South to the warm springs linear feet The flie total cost of this extension will bo be I The paving of or Third South street and Ninth East ERst street was completed d at ut nomInal nominal nom norn- inal cost to tho the city and has about wonderful Increases In property values alon along abutting properties Mako Make Wider Vider Walks During Durina tho the year tho the minimum width of I sidewalks was Increased d from four to five feet cot excepting where such uch was not I feasible Tho The total length of oC tho the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks In the city now Is miles Tho The principal gutter and curbing extensions during durin th year car were made on Second avenue from Virginia street l to Alta AHa street Alta str street et from Crom Second avenue to Third avenue a The Tho total cost of this Improving was wan A total of square yards ud of or cross crosswalks crosswalks walks were constructed during tho the year Five FI blocks of or main sewers were werA laid and 30 blocks of laterals lateral To the sewers powers 1788 houses connected Protection tion Against Against Floods The Ninth South street canal was wu cleaned d at a total cost COAt of ot and ond plans aro are being considered tl for the con con- dulling of that stream through tho the western west west- em ern part of tho the elt city Another bl big Improvement was tho the ex extensIon extension ex- ex tension of ot the City creek creck conduct bv by P. P j J. J Moran from the tho cast east end North Temple street from State street a distance die dis tance tanco of 1984 feet upstream This and tho the rest of the cost tho the city and will prove a 3 wonderful asset In the protection of the tho property of tho western part of or the city from the spring floods hoods The Intercepting sewer station cost the city UG to operate during durIn the year yar The report enumerates a 1 large lare number of other Improvements made nade during the year all of which will bring brim about great good to the city and will prove pro exceptionally exception exception- ally 1 good god Investments In |