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Show Brigham street will have to look to its laurels or Second South street will soon eclipse it so far as the condition of the street is concerned. If the property owners would combine and mortgage ' their property for ten years for street improvements, improve-ments, paying the interest and ten per cent of the original principal annually, the tax would not be a great burden, and the improvement would in many places add 25 per cent to the value of the property. The men of Salt Lake are looking ahead and exultingly expecting two or three new railroads to center here in the near future, but they are not, so far as their property goes, putting on good clothes in which to receive these roads. Other things being equal, a stranger desirous of purchasing a home will choose a paved street if he can and will pay extra vastly more than the paving cost. |