Show THE OLD NUISANCE SALT LAKE CITY may 26 editor deseret metes you likely remember the agitation about a year ago regarding the erection of an olf oil warehouse by the standard oil company on the southeast corper corner of block IW loo fiat riat plat piat A of this city at that time the inhabitants and property owners in said vicinity by petitions to our city council protested most earnestly against the erection of an oil warehouse on the site named which was followed by a city ordinance designed to obviate to some extent the the anticipated danger attendant apon upon storing oi oil in large quantities within the limits of the city uty but said ordinance has never been enforced and therefore so far as any good haare has resulted might just as well never have existed parties interested in the matter supposed that the police would take notice of this violation of said ordinance with the view of bringing offending parties to austice the same as for infractions f of any rule or regulation of our city government but that failing an or two notified what was supposed to be proper authority that in question was bein being violated with impunity still as y yet eti eto nothing has been done to prevent it so far as can be seen by the public the result of this is that pe people av e living in that vicinity have been a and yet are in constant apprehension of danger of the possible not to say probable explosion of the larce large quantities of oil that have been stored store quantities in said warehouse they have felt and yet feel tha thail have been ly trampled upon and their property has been greatly by the erection and subsequent use of said warehouse an agent or employee of the standard oli olf company remarked last winter to the deflect that the city authorities had located said warehouse on its present site and that as litigation was an important apor n part of the standard oil companas Comp om anys regular business they purposed os S staying ying lust where they are etc can ean an it be possible possible that our city authorities f feel eel themselves powerless to protect the rights of the people when menaced yea trodden upon by such a aggressive gg dessive res sive and dangerous influences and if so where are the people to look for protection some home may plead commercial necessity but sala said warehouse could well enough have been placed where it would not have injured anyone where the oil compan company would not have been inconvenienced to the extent to justify adding a particle to resent present price of oil and besides the flounders lounders founders of this city did not journey the many hundreds of miles to this then uninviting region solely to create fat fields for the operations of soulless corporations again they prospered pretty well and were nos without oil to buru when the latter wat hauled by ox teams across the plains therefore a f few bw rods outside the settled portions of the city need not have left us altogether without light your is confident that with perhaps an individual exception or two the city council had no desire 0 or r expect expectation t at on in the least to assist any powerful I 1 party towards oppressing the people 0 of f this city but possibly they allowed t their heir obliging dis dispositions positions ions lons to be taken take n advantage of by being being unduly hurried hurrie d in into to some sort of action that a litle caution and reflection w would ouid have made impossible respectfully |