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Show COMMUNICATION 1 4 Editor 8fandard-Bxamlier, Ogden, Utah. , , .. Lear rill" Mov I. through the meai-um meai-um of your press, call attention to a f. w facts concerning the paVIng of; north Washington avenue from thC( . , en rivei to the north city limits. North Washington avenue has been I divided Into (wo distinct streets. The one on the west was paved in 118 at , , osl to th propcrtv owners of about , r foot front. This year. 1D20. the aasl half IS being paved at an estt-l (venue and the property owners on the abOUl $8 pr foot front Between what now euM Washington Washing-ton avenue and west Washington av-enuc av-enuc Hes a strip of land twenty-two 'feet wide and about two and one-half !mi. s long which Is fenced In by two concrete walls separating the two streets as perfectly as though they were a city block or more apart. The nnlv openings in these two cement wails are at street intersections, other- Iwlse the land between the two avenues lis as exclusive private property as If it were built up With stores, warehouse 'or residences Now, are we, the property owners on the cast side of east Washington avenue, av-enue, the property owner on the west west side of wot Washington avenue, to pay the entire amount tor paving and Ithe property owners between the two avenues pay nothing" Why should he property owners on the east side be as- Isessed twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars more than those on the wet I side ? Yours truly, jam ks i i:ks in I Ogden, Utah, December 1 1920. oo |