Show MAKES THE TilE PEOPLE PAY FOR I City Administration Selects New Work Upon Which Abutters s Are e Stung USE FINE COMB IN FIGURES Improvements s Costly to City Are Overlooked for Snaps That Appear Big In a frantic effort to keep up with the tho Improvement pace paco set last year tho American city administration Is Iscom com combing the tIme streets of or Salt Lake Lal for tor places where pu public Improvements can be made at tho timo lowest possible cost to the tho ell city and of or all nil the time improvements that arc now being being- made mado the property owners must bear six times irises as much as 8 tho the direct tax that will wIH be bo paid b by the cH city for COl It Its portion of oC tho ho cost Time The eH city treasury Is already away overdrawn o and there is with which to pay for Cor the time city's portion of or public improvements now being made In line with the lie city's policy to make a U good showing this year ear at ot tho the ex- ex of or time tho property owner tho the council council coun coun- cil has line ordered work rushed rushell on all sow sew ers elS Counting two extensions for which Ll bids s will wIH bo be opened May 1 I. the new sewers now under construction will cost property owners alone 11 11 The Tue ell city will not pa pay a penny of this because all of oC tho lie expense falls taIls upon the property ort owner nor direct Iii lu Up VI Jill lucI II III Work urh In th time the estimate of or work contemplated plated for Cor l OS Cit City Engineer hns ms figured that hint tho time city's portion of the cost coat for Cor a asphalt pavements will amount to while tho the property owners' owners share is calculated te at GO The Thu asphalt work now way and the contracts tp tD be let May Iny 1 I will ivill complete completo the lie work of or time the year The ing table shows how much thIs his Is Time The city's portion Is reduced n almost half while the time property owners owners' own own- ers ers' share Is reduced only a about out one- one tim hird I rd No o macadam work It Is likely will willbo willbe bo Le done this year eor Already the proposed proposed pro pro- posed macadam paving pa of ot Second 1 aye c nut ue has hns been changed 1 to asphalt but buthe the he estimate is not yet et completed Th The work worle for Cor the tho year In macadam ma ma- cadam street paving paying amounted to f i I- I S for the tIme city's I portion and as the time abutters abutters' portion The city contemplated contemplate doing a U great deal cal eal of sidewalk work during the year CIl City Engineer Kelso Kelsey figured figurell that tho time Ity's Itys portion would be I while the tho abutters abutters' portion would woul be 53 36 6 SO Cheapest Slot Now ow as us a matter of or fact the city an not possibly strain Its credit to the extent of ot pa paying more mole than one bundred hundred hun bun dred thousand dollars for sidewalk vork nork an and for that reason extensions upon which tho city's portion Is lI light ht lmae lave been selected for tor Improvement The city is pushing work worl upon which It will have hao to pa pay only about one fifth of uC ho tho the contemplated amount while the property owners to stand stan tho actual ac- ac ual burden of ot tho the expense The Time table shows the amount of public Improvements now being made nade Asphalt J pa paving v extensions extensions- City's butters Abutters buLt rs' rs Portion Portion Corner West est T Temple and nna Fourth 4 i West Vest Templo Temple l Fourth an and Fifths Fifth South k O North Main street v 1797 00 First South street v 1 1 Pierpont ont street v. v No oE t. t First avenue changed to asphalt UNO bo Est Fifth East Enst let letIa May Ia 1 45 5 00 I Fifth South let May 1 HOGO F street let Get May la 1 3 1 GI G Total c j. j FOH 4 Sidewalks Sidewalks- 8 I f Capitol Hill Ilin ext extension SO 36 Gl tri OGO Canyon to B n extension SJ sn 5 Seventh South extension 9 92 I 17 2 n Eighth South State to Second West extension II lon luC Eighth South and EI Eighth West let Oct OctIa May Ia 1 lO Downtown district extension 12 l Total 91 S Sewers w-rs w no nu city portion portIon portIon- Extension 00 E 12 j- j S liS 2 GS Extension ISO i 10 Extension lS GG l Extension 1 0 Extension 13 Extension let May 1 Extension let May I. I 1 Tv l 11 I cu Ou Un c e cr cr Work urk leSO figures show that of or all the public Improvements now now being ru L by the time city most of oC the time money will bo be paid pall for sewers upon which the property property prop prop- ort erty owners O pa pay the full fun proportion of ot the lie cost The engineering printing and oth other r miscellaneous expenses to together to- to gether with a a. high contract price arc met mot b by the time property owners along the various extensions To show that the ell city is picking out Improvements upon UlOn which tIme the burden of or expenses rests upon the thu property owners Fifth South street t Is cited Time Tho street will be paved from Main to Second East Enst street rime Tho intersections at it Main and State streets arc are in In lu and he the only pa paIn packing In to be done Is between these hese corners and to the time west side sille of ot Second East street tho the eit city eity thereby escaping the thu cost of oC paying for Cor or an ami Intersection in In- In Swine Are tre VI Up tr Tie e proposition to pave Second East Hast street from Fifth South to South and thereby surround the thc city and count county building with asphalt streets was turned down b by the city council because this improvement in- in In Involves volvos tho the laying of or two intersections Firth Fifths East street from to toS S Second South street tr et Is another Illustration tiles Illus of ot the time city administration huntIng huntIng hunt hunt- Ing lug for Cor cheap fame There is only one Intersection to make and that cost Is provided plo for fol In lu tho time First South street I improvement t. t Jul c u hue The city council at its meeting last night ordered 1 bids bills to be advertised nd 11 for Cor extension In the time northwestern part of the city The Tho city en engineers engineer's estimate ate atu of or this work was a 3 total cost of If f of which Si is abutters abutters' portion and 37 will be paid pall by tho the city Only a part of this timis will be done this year ear though the contract must m be let for tor the whole hole It was at nt first decided to tackle a third of oC It but ut it finally went to the committee I Extension was orl ordered ordred r d to be lie ad all all- This Is 15 In the tho southeast t parta part a I of tho city and comprises all the siu 13 south of oC Ninth South and cast east of State Slate street There arc about CO GO in e I KM in tri all of or sidewalk to be bo laid here herc noel arul It was decided to do 15 Hi of these this 5 j car I |