Show unparalleled presumption editor deseret derat news we have heard wonderful things of late among 0 t them hem let us alone while w we e tab cobble b ase up arsenal hill and the ten tenth W ward d square let us remove the remains of the dead from frem the city cemetery so that we can secure sites tor for fashionable residences 71 purchase strips for streets through toe the blocks in the central part of the city so that we can have more corner lots to speculate on such are a few of the modest requests which have been presented to toe city council of this city recently by whom gamblers our city 18 IS INFESTED with them for months they have been flocking hither from pastures like wit caits chits ond and los angeles where a reactionary tio nary anti boom blizzard has killed the grass upon which they feed A horde of adventurers have come among pur citizens alio wh 0 started out to get a living by their wits but tailing from a lack of capital pital have bave fallen back upon the which nature has lavishly supplied them one of this class will enter the house of a cit citizen D and inquire if the premises a are for sale on being answered no he will reply never ever mind ill lust hang on the fence a notice that it is for sale at my office and ill wt a satisfactory is price for you 71 adding mentally ehst a fellow wao lives ives by making sales of real estate must make eale somehow the land jumping scheme 18 and the emphatic echo of public sentiment given through tae seems to have put a damper upon the cemetery project but the proposition to have the city buy the right of way for streets through clocks near the business centre Is still being pressed its advocates urge that if the city would buy a portion of the centre of the block and then TUU run a street through the latter the land in its centre would suddenly become so eo velu valuable able that it could be sold for enough to pay the cost of running the street through in other words the city council is urged to engage in a real estate speculation and to open the way for option dealers and realty speculators generally to put winnings in their pockets A municipal pai government has n neither either the tap legal nor moral right to engage in a moneymaking money making scheme of such a character it if money can be made by DIVIDING THE BLOCKS let private persons engage in the enterprise the tact fact is the cutting up of the blocks is not desired by permanent residents who are men of means with sufficient earnestness to impel them to engage in the work though there is 18 little doubt that mosey money might be made by disfiguring the city in that way it if the owners of blocks desire streets to be run through them there is no legal obstacle in the way of having their wishes gratified but it is 18 believed that an injunction would lie to prevent the city council from resolving the municipal corporation into a real estate agency WASATCH I 1 A paris paper recently stated that the people of st louis dakota territory are dying of a disease called blizzards |