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Show OGDEN PAVING PROGRAM OF I SEVERAL YEA RS INCLUDED I ! IN PROPOSALS FOR CITY I " litis I HEBE Commissioners' Proposals For Extensions of Hard Surfaced Highways Are Outlined; Would Improve Much Property and Be Material Saving; City Must Bear Portion of Cost, Including That For All Street Intersections; $150,000 to Cover This Feature. PAVING Amount Ri quostctl in Bond SSUO $150,000.00. At the present time Ogden City has about 200 miles of streets. 21.69 mllco being paved. On account of the I change In traffic, the motor-t ruck and automobile coming into use more and more each year, hence requiring hard surface pavements or roads on which to economically operate trucks and j automobiles. It an be stated without I fear Of successful contradiction that dirt roads are n longer economical, and It can be fairly stated that paved streets arc an absolute necessity If we I keep abreast of the I Inn s along with I other municipalities. Paved roads not onlv provide better means of traffic, but they are more 'sanitary and clean, ajid the homes and residences abutting upon paved streets are found to benefit a great deal from clean paved streets and the general I sanitary appearance presented thereby. there-by. Aiso the property abutting upon I paved streets Is eventually increased In lvalue, equal lo. If not exceeding the lvalue of the Improvement. This is 'seen in our own city from the fact I that property abutting upon paved I streets is more saleable and more desirable de-sirable and bring better returns than 'those locations whore streets are not I paved. SAVING FOB AlToMomi I S. I It may be figured out in detail, and In fact, has ben figured out that the saving on uutomoblle Urea. g;csollne and repairs on trucks and automobiles would bo the amount of the Interest and sinking fund on the cost of paving roads and streets. The city commissioners are swamped with petitions from the citizens citi-zens requesting that their streeis be PSVOd and of course, if the city Is to pave streets, it must be understood that not only lho abutting property owners have to stand a portion of the J eKpense, but the general fund of tht H folly must stand its portion which con-t-lsts of paving at Intersections and one- H half the oost of grading d The program as Outlined above in I tho amount of $f 50, 000 00 is to coy-er coy-er tho city a portion of the cost of paving, estimated to cover a period of H from three to four years. The con- BBJ .-tructlon of till" paving lie.-. I not I I immediate, but will be made when prices for both labor and material are W HERE PAVING NEED The particular parts of the city on which paved streets will be construct- '.-.1 has not be. u definitely determined. BBBJ but It Is the intention of the commls-slon commls-slon to give first attention to those streets vitally needing paving at the EaVA present time and to give those people j EBJ desiring pavement and, of course, this con onlj be don.-, ir we are to keep our H tax levy the same as it Is now, by the H people voting for the bonds asked for. H It is needless to say that if the city Is lo keep abreast of the times that it must improve its streets and improve them by paving with hard BUrfoce pavement. A good many cities in the J western states with a good deal less I population than Ogden, can be shOWD i BEh to have a great many more paved J 'Losses streets than we have in the city at the EBJ present time. In fact, it can be staled i ,BBBJ that Ogden ranks among the poorest !H paved cities In the entire country with !bBb1 respect to population. ' jH (Signed ) ' j Jl JOSEril .vi. TRACT. City Engineer. |