| Show CREDIT FOR PUBLIC improvements THE denver news of the anat has the following paragraph in relation to this city salt lake is very busy with its ils municipal improvements and seems possessed of an energy not her own at least one to which her people have long awn unaccustomed sewer work is in progress railways are being extended paving districts organized business blocks and new residences contracted for and many improvements prove ments menta and enterprises all of value to the city in process of oom completion ion it is is expected that congress will appropriate appropriate money to turn a portion 0 of the militar military ay reservation into an attractive park the lake shore is in process of improvement for the bathing season and within a year or two at farthest beautiful antelope island with its sandy beach fresh water springs and freedom from dust and mud will be connected with the main land by a railway built upon piles all this progress is due to the late gentile victory which has transformed salt lake from a sort of a sain saints I 1 s rest into an active growing au bustling abling western american reaching forward to the position it is destined to occupy in the rocky mountain region all this progress is tot due to the late gentile victory before that victory occurred a sewer system had been far advanced toward completion ion and this city bad one of the best beat electric street ral way plants in the world which was being rapidly extended before the victory happened I 1 puring lur dg the last two years of peopled people Is party rule a building bu illing bo bobai boaya oya gained tremendous hea headway away and what is now seen are the results of that movement to a very great extent was a gentile victory victorr gained over the war department which is to result in transforming the fort douglas military reservation into a park plans for the improvement of nearly the whole of the east shore of the lake were in process of maturity or execution long before the victory while the antelope island scheme to is at least ten years old the organization of paving districts was not possible until the legislature passed a law providing for them a few weeks after the vict victory oryll transpired but the old city council bad agun making arrangements for paving if the news desires to be dis abused in regard to the credit due the gentile city council for public spirit and improvements it should read the criticisms editorial and communicated which have been appearing in the columns of the liberal Liber alj papers of this city almost daily for some time past in which the present city government is censured for inactivity and lack of enterprise and foresight |
