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Show j NORTH WASHINGTON PAVING yA Tuesday evening the property owners on the east side of "Wash-j "Wash-j ' ington avenue, north of the Ogden river bridge, are to meet with the j 4 city commissioners to consider the bids on the north Washington I paving. I The total cost of tli'c paving, under the bids recejved, is 182,238. 1 Of this sum, the city pays $14,491, and the stalQ arid county $77,324, 'j leaving $90,423 to be met' by the n butlers or $7.65 4pcr front foot, i Should this project be turned down, state and county aid may not I be obtained in the future, should that unfavorable condition be real- ized, .and prices remaining at a high level, the bos. t to the. abutters' might be increased instead of decreased, if, at" a later dale, the ; decision was reached to go ahead with the work. The question, therefore, facing the property owners of the dis-r dis-r trict, is whether the lowest bid, which comes from the Moran Con-t Con-t - struction company, is reasonable, taking into consideration the present labor wage, the' price of cement and all the other costs entering into construction. ; . $ One thing is evufciii uncUthat is the necessity for paving the '; east side of the highway north of iDgdcn river. For years the thor-i thor-i oughfarc has been almost impassable. Property in all that district has I 1 been depreciated owing to the bad streets, with dust in summer and II, mud in winter. The street car line also has been an eye sore. With ftl) paving all this adversity will be overcome. Arc the improvements I I worth the cost? " I J With the paving of the east side, the street car company is to be I I required to double track the entire distance from the river to the city I i limits. The steel and tics for this purpose have been purchased. The I j roadbed, now" from half a foot to two feet up in the air, is to- be I brought down to grade on a level with the paving, and twenty-one or U more "intersections arc to be paved. This betterment will cost theft the-ft street car . company more than the entire expense to the city, u. county, state and abutters in the paving of the 28-foot roadway on I . the cast side. t I JC carried through, this transformation of north Washington will I be the biggest improvement made in any part of Ogden in twenty I ' ( years'.' . . " |