Show STREET PAVING 4 azlen baa has reached that point in her upward and onward cauree when the treet street paving improvement des deserves evies to be considered calmly intelligently and in iatha the light of reason tha the utility of veil well pared streets ia in a city like ogden cannot be gainsaid gain said paved streets tree tB especially ally in the business portions of 0 any place mark the distinction between a tillage village and a city ogden Oden which claims iba the title ot of the queen city has not jet yet begun began the actual work of laying down street pavements but the city council which has bad had the matter under consideration for several months now declares its intention to comment ti thia this great improvement in tain taia districts of the city where paving will prove immediately beneficial and remunerative we say remunerative advisedly advia adly and for proof of the soundness of this statement we point to every other city where the improvement 0 haa has been made and to the firm and per ni anent rise in property values which have followed it oden ogden has a magnificent water system i the finest electric car system ia itt the united a good sewerage system miles of smooth paved sidewalks an n unexcelled fire department a BITO siva population and she should now add aid tha the crowning improvement which will make her title of queen unassailable it ta not the purpose of STANDARD to largo upon property owners the adoption of any line of policy which does not appeal I 1 to their own intelligence and good we have conversed with many i of them upon the subject of street paving 1 and ancl the consensus consani ua of opinion as expressed is strongly in favor ot 0 making a n commencement right away the few objections that have been raised are of such a trivial nature as to cut no figure whatever in the matter they relate mainly to the cost of the improvement and the tightness of the money market bat but aa as the cost is comparatively a trifle and nd as the payments for the work will bo be extended through a ot of several years and as the value of property on tha the streets that are paved will at onci once be enhanced more tha than i ten fold such ob as state 1 will no not weigh long with the owners of business property rr VM acara there appears to be a grossly exaggerated idea of the probable cost of street paving in this city a few property owners seeming to think that their property Is to ba be reed to pay for the improvement nothing could bi further from the truth let ut us 03 look into the matter a little tha the estimate of tha probable pro bible able coat cost of paving washington avenue ahl walsh h is the widest street is 12 a front foot and ot of the other streets 10 Sap suppose pose for example that a mm man owns thirty feg oa 01 washington avenue he would be called upon to pay the eum sum of with Inte rodt not to exceed 0 6 per cent if it the bonds boo daran ran for ten years ha lie would p py ty a foot or 33 3 a year daring that time an amount so insignificant when the we beneath are aacen into f talat it will not 6 bi to 0 o unfavorably influence the mind of any aagat apua and ad adf property owner conservative u bawd upon the result which have followed street paving la in other places show 1 I k acu NV J st ilami q it I 1 1 that each year for ten years at least leas the property BO so improved will lacre aae in value not less leas than the total cost in this view of tha the cgee street paving becomes simply imply a question of 0 profit to property 0 owners and whether they desiro desire to invest their money in a way which w will III lure to them the receipt ot of the largest returns tarns re |