Show r NO WORK STILL MONEY S Expense of Added to Sidewalk Extension t. in Present Year I 5 rl S PETERED OUT oui YEARS AGO AGOS S Nothing Doing on n Big Contract t. t But Somehow Fund F Lind Steadily Stead Stead- I I f ily Increases t t. t S Tho i. scandal growing out of or SIde SIde- walk extension the i v- v largest coni con eon I tract over ever undertaken b by the city and ono one of ot the tho many maru which has ha ended In miserable failure grew rew to greeter Creator proportions proportions pro- pro portions yesterday when it was learned l arne 1 ru that of ot the on onS S th the 8 ij was was as spent In 1 J. J irn JOS OS The Tho contract for tor the Ia laying of or so- so SI oj 4 walks on this E extension was let to Johnson and In The Theo i. i j y lies south of oC Ninth South and S J fast of or State Stare street and the total L co t ot of the work would have been heen 14 ri about put of which the city would Jd have to pa pay about II Tho The contract was rescinded and an Ii y ordinance passed parsed sed revoking the tho levy len S S of ot as assessment S because became the city did Yr not hOt havo have tho money mone with which to tot t carry on the work S 'S two yea years ear that work worl bets Ims been l beenS een t S held up partly because the contractor t tor did lid not harmonize with City Engineer Ent En En- Kelsey and party part because Hie he 17 city had bungled the affair from the I cr very start I The record shows th that t the engineer engineer- li irIg Ine- expense on that extension alono alone was and that the tho advertis ad lag Ins amounted to If I S B Al Account if Tills This outrageous account for tor advertising ads adver 0 Using as ns shown on the cH city r records S la Is s out of or all proportion to the amount I of oC nd advertising done clone and exceeds nn any F S advertising td account a count for any nn- other ono In the city The records further show that line has been refunded to property owners who had paid their assessment andS and'S and and- S had grown tired of or waiting waItIng- for tho the Im- Im Improvement Improvement Im Im- provement to be made Thc They kept after atS' atS af nf- S' S ter tel the city council until tho the money ioney S 'S was refunded S If Jf all nIl of tho the engineering engIneerIng- expense was WM incurred prior to the starting starting- of or the tho work worl as Is claimed In the case of or this sidewalk extension property owners owner are curious to know wh why wa was S spent In two years after aCter tho the lott let lot S I J. J t ting of or tile the contract The Improvement ement has laid dorm dormant nt years rears with very e little prospect prospectS that the tho work wod would oula ever er be done and LUId S 3 yet ot tho the city has crammed down clown the tho throats of taxpayers an nn expense of over oer 1600 O after the affair became a dead Issue It Is explained b by some somo of at tho tim cU city officials o who ho have lun-c been stirred up h byS hy by c S S scandal andal brewed d out of or tn Rn J 1 h. h I i or h p d' d m mho ho homet met bY th city This of at course will vill have havo to ho bo t. out of or some seine other fund In violation vio ylo- lation lotton oC or tho the law and while the expense C ex e- pense pease will not fall directly upon the property o affected by tho the extension ex eX- tension they with other taxpayers ers of or Salt SnIt Lake o. will be compelled to share sharo tho the expense peru of It the blunder under Indirectly a |