Show business men should not pay for street sprinkling the old system of malting making the business men dig up each month ii 11 order that main street may be led in a half way fashion is a hun bull dred years or more out of date and it is time for our city offic officers erb to a t a hand in the game and see to it that tho the work is properly done and did i ild toi for out of the city funds there is no other place a this state or in any neighboring state where the business men are charged high licin licenses ses tor for the privilege of ot 0 o ing business and then called upon to pay special assessments such ds as a sprinkling tax business men aie ate in most cases the heavy taxpayers ard it if they come through with a h gh it 11 cense cerise tee fee for the right to do business they certainly ought to get some soine thing in return it is the duty of every city to take care of its streets in the summer r the streets should be cleaned grad ed and sprinkled aad aad in the winter they should be m made e fit for travel even though it it ls is J n necessary cessare to remove J the snow I 1 vw would 0 d be just as rea for ake tee fity city administration at salt lake td aft the merchants to defray the exposes of hauling off the snow in winter time as it is to call upon the business men of eure ka to sprinkle the streets and an other thing that we wish to call at to is that our streets have never been decently sprinkled in the past the main reason for this has been that there was no one to see that the work was as properly done or to pay for it when it had been taken care of if the work is paid for by the city and the road supervisor di erects the sprinkling we will know inhere where to register our complaints this year there is a chance tor for the city to get the water for practically nothing using the supply from the city well and getting the balance from the gemini mine where water is now being pumped to the surface let s have this work done at the ex pense of the city and done right keeping a man and tears team busy all the time and covering as much of the town as can be sprinkled with the water that is available tor for that pur pose pope |