Show DELAY IS COSTLY if there is no more opposition to the subdividing of block 25 than was manifested at the city council friday night when protests were called for or there ought to beno be no trouble about passing the ordinance next session and then promptly enforcing it opponents of the improvement seem to have either been woi wo i over by argument or have become convinced that the popular feeling was against them at any rate no voice was raised in protest when the ordinance came up for or consideration and the council encountered no obstacle to putting the bill through its first stage As appears from the minutes min otea the cost coet of opening the street t will be DO which expense of course must be borne by the property owners benefited considering the benefits to be derived the price is not hinh high but it is so much beyond the figure which was put upon it when the tile improvement pro was first mooted that it appropriately invites comment on the costliness of procrastination six years ago 40 would have covered all the apen expense se involved in dividing the block not only by a street from north to south but alto by one from east to west cutting the present block into four and giving sixteen good business corners where we now have but four today to day the half of that work will cost nearly four times as much as the whole of it would then at the relative ratio of increase the carrying out of the original proposition would call for if it any of 0 the property owners on that block have been able to make earn in six years their prosperity has been rather more phenomenal than we have imagined in it ia is proper to calculate that the increase in values during the last six all years will continue at a similar rate during the ensuing six if the sup position is correct aad and whether it is correct or not the city and the citizens will eave save morley by acting immediately upon all improvements of this character that may be in contemplation temp lation by way of example it will need no great facility in figures to determine that the cost of opening thirtieth street if it that much needed improvement does not mend its pace will be at the conclusion eo so great as to financially ruin the poor property owners who are now clamor ous for the street and willing to pay for it |