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Show I GOOD ROADS, CITY AND COUNTY. We read somewhere a few days ago an opinion expressed by some one that he hoped he never would see the day when this city was out of debt and her streets were not torn up. This sentiment may be well enough as far as the city's being out of debt is concerned, con-cerned, yes, and also regarding having her streets all torn up, because be-cause in the first place being in debt does not necessarily mean being be-ing poor; in fact, some authorities tell us that a great financier is a man who has ability to borrow or who has ability to lend and, of course, a financier is always rich and prosperous no matter whether he has borrowing ability or whether he has only lending abilit'. As for the streets being torn up, it certainly gives somebody work and that is something even if it is only a poor contractor, but what we want to say in this story is that we would like to see the city spend a little of the money that it borrows in improving all the streets of the city, to a certain extent at least. As it is now we have some of the best modern paved streets and sidewalks in the world. We have some streets paved, parked and boulevarded but we also have some streets, in thickly populated parts of the city too, that after every storm arc disgraceful and abominable. We would rather note that there is an improvement everywhere than merely some great improvement going on all the time in the limited sections occupied by the business houses and the rich. Indeed Salt Lake City could well afford to let her street department take a few lessons from the road supervisors on many of our country roads that arc much better kept and repaired than most of our Salt Lake City streets outside of the favored districts. This is not a kick, it is merely a suggestion that insomuch as the city has borrowing ability (and that borrowing ability is not limited merely to the paved streets) that the money borrowed should be spread about a little more so that the citizen who lives in the districts that arc not paved may at least have some few improvements im-provements made on the roads that he must traverse, not extravagant improvements, just common, decent improvements such as are found on any country county road. |
