Show WILL ILL KILL WIDE TIRE Seems an Impossibility Measure Measure Measure Meas Meas- ure Can Pass the thc City S Council WOULD SAVE PAVEMENTS Two Tuo Years Would lIe no GI GIn Gl n Owners of Vehicle chicks to tn Glum Change e the Width of Tires The wide tire ordinance will in all nil probability be be I killed b by the city H council It was wa Introduced on March 28 S but has been een laid over until now It t seems an Impo Impossibility that It Il can pass lass The Tho ordinance was drawn rawn 1 by I A. A R n Carter and is now with wilh the thc committee on Oit streets streets It Is understood understood under under- stood that strong pressure has been heen broll brought ht to hear bear upon that lint committee and anI thai lint time the lobby of or men nien has hits been successful In lii having having- the Ihu ordinance ordin orilla- ance amice delayed City Engineer Kelse Keisey who is in ill favor of a tiro wide ordinance says n that wide tires will save swe third one of oC tIme the wear of or streets Those familiar with civic Improvements and mul growth say y that some sonic da day Salt Lake will haa ha have o havea a tire iule ordinance and lint thal so lon lonas long longas as the Iho chan change o must come commie It ml might ht as aswell aswell aswell well be he made male now so as to give th the tho streets the benefit Farmers and nl others who are arc compelled lo to use us the paved streets with their present ent vehicles say that an any ordinance making mak nak- ing them change the thc style of their Urea tires will iii work vork a hardship on them Gives l s Two Euro WI Years to Chan Change c. c Time The ordinance as It Il Is now drawn gives owners of vehicles two years in which to change the width of or tho the tires It will go o Into lute effect two years after r Its passage e TIme The ordinance prescribes pvc pre scribes the width of all tires thes ranging from froni one and one half inches for loads of or 2000 pounds to lo ten lou Inches for fOI loads of pounds or over ovel For FOI loads of over ovel pounds two-Inch two planks will be lC laid haiti and eight wheels with ten Inch tires will be he used No loads oads of more than 1000 pounds will willbe he be ic allowed on Oil two wheeled vehicles The Tho ordinance docs does not nol apply to rub- rub vehicles Time The penalty attached for violation of or the time ordinance Is a fine flume of not less than linn 5 1 riol nor more 50 CiO or Imprisonment Ini- Ini a day for each dollar of oC the tho fine flue or bothme both The me advocates of oC wide tires ar argue ue that inasmuch as all nil owners are arc given two years In which to chan change e etheil I their theil vehicles so as to conform with the ordinance there Is no hardship The fact that wide ride tires thes will save one- one third ti of or tho the wear weal of streets adding that lint much to the life pf them Is not denied Asphalt streets as well as macadam arc now being damaged to lo loa toa toa a great extent extent- In the time summer months when the asphalt becomes soft sort narrow tires cut Into the pavement pavement pave pave- ment to a damaging extent Many l of I the ruts ruti in asphalt and macadam llam pavements are arc attributable to narrow loads I tires tim and heavy I |