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Show ' t ! j ? f NEWS. DECEMBER Qty Spends Million In 192 17 1 JS21 r&LlL For Public Iijn provemento arid 1 Plans Hugel 922 1..Prograni.For .. .. .. Vi, : V t ' iwj l vf ' j )w - . oornrrrcuLL errmen 4S y A v IC iTs. 4 ?i s j -- J. p NT s J L r r r. W 2ii-y- r w iy? .vP.T Mu !xA-!- i i Art yS' $ w w J - T" ' SJ . ' V Dcrs2 SC2 P.c:o Tl22 o. Wan m m, un cm; o o". bail . ' to TkM West MrHC total im, ear's Forties. (Uil.a - .- 14.; In etty nd oftlM.. lkk tho IKIslis -S Waites m OMMSWootf T. T. Alvin AsSHcf Bliss, the test that the j city DESPITE serious shorten ot funds this year, public improvements; ran 'well over the million dollar Work. Unlike the previous year tbs cltyl had but littls special bond money to draw-. from, and xnoaf of the work was sxocuted out of the general fund. Of course, a large percentage of It was am nil aoalnat abutting property, but, nevertheless, the city made aa . enviable record with the money It had 4 ' at Its disposal, Necessity for strict economy pre- vented the undertaking of as extenatve a public improvement program aa had been planned. The need for furnishing employment for Idle men, however led the city commission to devote every aval table dollar to work. For this roaaoa more work eras under-"takthan would have keen had sot exthe a on --, employment emergency! - l isted. There are today approximately tS miles of streets In Balt Lake, of which about I mllaa are paved. , About four miles were paved this year aa -against i. nine miles last year. nearly Ne rly all of tho earth streets are surfaced with, gravel. graded SOand miles were graded and sur About faced this year, making n new record for the street department. Nearly It mllaa of streets are curbed and guttered. While no streets additional to those paved have been actually curbed and guttared this year, a contract covering n largo section of the north bench recently was let. Contracts Nearly MBHoe. Considerable work wma done In the In the way of new sowers this year. miles now being neighborhood of covered. There are more than SSO miles of aldewalke In the city, of were built this which about six milea year. fetal contract work of The coat, done this year was 110,14 as agalnat 71 last year. Of this year's SI. 14. 11. amount. MM.4Sf.lS was a see awed while tbs against abutting property, to tSS,--1 city'sSS. portion amounted 'fo otrest paving Improvements executed during the year coat MIS.17S.4S. Of this amount the city's portion was MS.4S111. while the balance, IMS -SM.lt was assessed abutting y property. . Paving la Laid. The paving extensions built-- , this aa follows: were year South street from the Twenty-fir- st fire station to Thirteenth east street, total cost, tl.TllS; citys portion. S3.41S.7; abutting property owners $1.07.S7. portion. Seventh Beat street from Twenty-fir- st South street to Twenty-sevent- h tenth street, total cast St.SSS.M; fl.M7.tt; abutting city's portion, property owners portion, f f t.ltt.li. First West street from South Temstreet end Well ple street te WallWest Street to Secstreet from First ond West street, total cost Stef,-TS- S tf l.MS.SI; city's portion, 4; abutting property owners' portion, M4.SSl.lt. Stratford avenue from Highland Drive to Fifteenth Bast street, total fll,SS.TT city's portion. Maa who wlU en , ttt ' i- i f . may II.- Slf.fl; abutting property portion. I14.T41.T. Roosevelt avenue from Eighth Said street te Ninth Bast street, total coat, III.- ltS.Ul city's portion, IMS. 11; shutting property, owners' portion, in.sts.si. Hawthorne 4 avenue from Seventh Bast street to Eighth Boat street total coat, IT.ltl.lt; city's portion, 4SI.4S; shutting property owners portion, S4.TM.7t. Sldrnnlk Impcnrfnn, Sidewalk improvements executed during tbs year cost a total of of which the city's portion was S1S.1T4.44 cod the shotting Drop owners' erty portion, tlSt.fTS.tf. The sidewalk extensions follow: Farmers'! Ward district, total 11,7S.4; citys portion. tlhSM., M: abutting property owners' por tion. tM.SM.lt. venue, North aids from Michigan FI ftsentb Bast street to Falrvtew avenue, total cost. SSSS.SS; citys portion, lilt. IS; abutting property owners' portion, ITSS.SS. Twenty-firSouth street, south side, from Eleventh Beat street, to Thirteenth Beat street, total coat. Ilf 14.10; city's share. SSSI.S7; abutting property owners' portion, $1,111.-I. , Ninth Bast street from Twenty-sevenSouth street to the city limits. , total cost, M.S47.SS; citys portion; SSIT.SS; abutting property owners portion, $$,1.M. Ninth avenue from D street street, total cost. li.ITT.tt; cityi por- tion,- I411.lt; abutting property era portion, TSI.tl. EmerU avenue from Seventh street to Eight West street, total coat $171. 04; city portion, IMI.14; abutting property owners' portion. It, 140.- - -- ; 111,-SS1- st S- - ,v . - - , - . oa " a. whore the diatribe tire Jrt built. Coat $10, fed. osrries the water dult tp the city. -wows! to bo a sabmar basin, will cost eppreximaielr MS.M, the city engineer nsthantss. Many other Improvements mart bo undertaken to mak the water wmkx - system adequate te supply the over growing needs of the ewy. It Is tho fr1?1?? end dty ofesMs engineers " taat there la aa e available from the minwtusSagmm-vow- s to care for tho naelToFa mty of 141.00 population, tf the water H . "wb mosrvcirs and the distribution system mads sfismils to properly hsndledL In ess tmemvs, obT only be andertat-- w Uroogh .n large bond losnst WevoW. uddltlon to the foregoing the awarded n eootraot for on Hillside utsuus between Main and Wall striata and on Wall street between "'I'rlft ove-aSecond North street Also n contract eras 1st for sewers In tbs district between Blghth West sad the Jordan river and Sixth tenth and Second North at n coat . Contract also was awarded for of a largo storm cower on Fourth avenue between B and M will practically This stream, tho storm sewers planned oomplete for tho north beheh and will protoot that district agalnat the destaging needs which follow every severs stems. Thousands of dollnra worth of damage will be saved annually both to There are III. Ill mlhn of water, private property and tho c$tya streets mn In the atmem, of whMi d.MI through these storm sewers. . Another important impressment sa miles wore Jaid this year nr n sent of the north bench for which the follow: oop'-M4.4IT. trmet hu Just bin street tnio ItoAmrthSfort from end guttering of the 'streets t Kolasy avenue, curbing feet. Oil.- in the district between Hr and N. ' l.M V If. II. treats and Third and Eleventh ave' Fourteenth North street nues. - Detailed and Blghth West street. 414 surveys were mads far two t lltli proposed reservoirs In Big Cottonwood pil Twenty-fircanyon having n eombtned oa poo tty teeth atreac nertlrv of t.Mt.OM gallons. One gtte was south aids. 41 feet. , , bermnn avenue, between Third end surveyed In Little Cottonwood can. yon and some preliminary work done f 4 feet. 144 on n sits Jn City Crook eeayoa. la seat to Twelfth East, JBihUi heath tho former canyon It Is proposed Id feet. I1.IM- -, to build o reservoir having a Twelfth Weal street between Third storage capacity of one and one-ha- lf billion gallons. These Improvements. fourth North otrnoM,' JTI ,fsst. cannot be mads with the hssond North street from Chtoagn regular revenue of tho city. 1 tewet to Blghth West streeC tit foot. , wally there must be n Mg bond L. to make them possible. . filV. ' fifteenth Beet, street between CCV- -' end Westminster nvennest , iw The new PurteyW-Cette- n we s d eon-du- it fast. 11,010, woe put into aervtee this yunr. Thirteenth 'Beat This eondutt delivering Cottonwood south 110 foot. MSS. water to tho city coot IIIMH sad. avenue McClelland sweat eeuth ( the asw supply Una connecting with the conduit at Saanyalia avsnue. . (Continued dh page twsntr-flve- .l recently a sewer extenaioa Atom, left to rlflii Oom- . iW V ' r ntf t , ! ; -- "4 A st m, att-mst- , . A - j- Urt A Jv.' TS, th . . v' -- r, u 1 avenue from Seventh East street to Eight Beat street-tot- al cost, 11.11.44; city's portion. ISIS n. property owners' por-IoIt; abutting 1, MS. 14. of Cleveland avenue. Portions Browsing avenue end Bmeraonl avenue and Sixth East street, total coat, I4.1S4 ST; city's portion, fits. St; abutting41. property own erg portion. Roosevelt -- I 4,001. New sewer extensions undertaken during tha year coat a total of. till,- - , The sewer extensions follow: In the territory between Fifth and Ninth South streets and Blghth West street and the Redwood road, total ; cost, $107,114 city portion. 201.14 4S; school dlrtriets portion. , l,74.4t. street. Ramona avenue i Lincoln 14 total cost, feet, south 1114.74; portion. I14.ll; abutting prop- -' city ew nets' portion, ttl4.ll. erty C street from Tenth avenue to Eleventh avenue, total price ,tl.4!r.lT; etty pertiea, Hlt.M; abutting (propportion, IIJIML erty swnirr Twenty --first South street, total price I.1M.II; city's portion. Mi ll; abutting property owners' portion, ' street. Warm t.44.4. North Eighth Springs satisfaction lllll. 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