Show A growl on the sewerage question SALV SAIA LAKE CITY may 7 1888 editor deseret news all residents and taxpayers in our fair city are arc now face to face with the sewerage issue whether or not the plan that at present appears to be most prominent before the municipal authorities ties is the most feasible I 1 do not propose to discuss but bat there is a point assumed by those who call most loudly lor for sewerage in which it seems to me they are reckoning without their host bost this class claim that a majority ot of the people of the city are demanding the ad adoption eption of a system of sewerage at the present time I 1 think that it if those who do so much mach bowling and complaining were ere to climb up far enough to glance outside of their own rat hol esthey would discover that the great majority majoria of the people are not rushing about ath with their locks streaming in the wind and their hands bands full fall of money to expend for the convenience of the minority who have th their air abiding places in the thickly populated U portion of the city they would d on the contrary that the bulk of pie e people while willing enough to have ave sewerage want the matter duly considered and a plan adopted for the benefit of the many instead of the few what is the present intention regarding the work Is it to benefit any considerable portion of those who make up the solid part of the community A sewer main is proposed to run un from first east street on fourt north to third south at third west ind thence to toe jordan river eight blocks in the inhabited portion of the city the first sewer gistrick gi district strict which it is proposed to start with embraces an area of four by five blocks north borth of fourth youth south and between first east and second west streets this thia takes in the business portion of the city is chiefly occupied by stores tenement houses hotels and clinese carnese wash bouses all that part of the city to the east west north and south is left out in the cold coid the people there have not been so noisy that the city council is anxious to pacify them by the expenditure of an enormous sura sum of in money oney it may be said that ot other her portions portion will be reached in time for their needs the promise will not be accepted in good faith I 1 in the light of the recent past we had waterworks water works the mains were laid through this same favored district where nearly all the street repairing is also done at the expense of ill all the taxpayers this section of town is honeycombed with mains and now that wealthy men who own property the select area non taxpaying tenants and chinese are well provided for a special tax for the exter extension islon of water mains is applied to the remainder the injustice is all the more apparent f from rom the fact that those who already haye have the mains are not required nor even asked to pay a similar tax but says one rey they would oppose it and we could not compel them would they indeed astopoff stop off some of their favors then and be a little more impartial property in all parts of the city except the central portion is assessed at two thirds its market value butchis same section where thy the owners would refuse to pay a just proportion atter after receiving the of expenditure from the general fund is assessed at only one half its market value do you think the people have any hope of better treatment or rather do they not look for a continuation tili el the injustice ustice it they ion ger submit there is perhaps one eighth of the population within the favored district but they are among those who have always been loudest in their demands for the expenditure of public f nude funds and that only at their own doorsteps and the people are beginning to become acquainted with toe facts the public sentiment of this city has not crystallized into a condition that up town is going to eat the whole pie leaving thy the remainder to pay for it this reminder are ide ane majority ot of the people they have been turned off with the husks long gh they propose to have some ot of the kernel in future and those who ligure figure on improvements will exhibit wisdom by noting this fact they are not the ones who are clamoring for sewerage at the present time they do not particularly want it dow BOW and especially do they not wand want any ill advised or hasty steps they realize that sewerage will be a benefit to many now and will become a necessity in a few years with this knowledge they are willing to support the move in this direct n tut but they do not want it confined or located so that they will be as in the past shut out from the benefits of the improvement or be compelled as in the case of the water mains to i pay double so that others may escape almost entirely |