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Show I City Fathers Hold Important Meeting Slher Hand 2ef .cw Uniform--I'm lug Warrant ( lie Made legal Prizes for Hoys' and (Jlrls' Club Kcrilmn Lane Trouble Still Uh-Mlllrd-AssoHRd Valuation 0er iflirnvmu-Hiirditcr (id. Sprinkling Contract. A long and Impoilant meeting of the city council was held laat Saturday Satur-day evening, many Important Hinders being transacted. Chicago nnd 1'rovo representatives of a street grader concern w'cro present pres-ent nnd made an effort to get tho city to purchase a machine for grading the streets. The city does not Bccm to be in tho mnrkcl just now, and tho matter was turned down. The Silver Hand representatives asked for help in tlio purchnBo of now uniforms. The boys apparently have a good standing with tho city, for $100 wns appropriated. They will obtain the necessnry balance from popular subscriptions. Joseph linker was present and complained com-plained that tho city had built Its now cement sldownlks on his property. Tho committee on streets will Investigate. Inves-tigate. Mr. McHrldo complained of tho now railroad having filled up his water section. This complaint wns referred to the samo committeo. Tho matter of making tho paving warrants legal was taken up. It appears ap-pears that Ilydalch & McGurrcn of Sail lako City wanted $500 to nttend to the legal end of tho matter. Judge S. It. Thurman offorcd lo do tho work and guarantee It for $100, so tho firm of Thurman & Son wns nwarded tho contract. Tlio borso show committeo was granted tho freo uso of-tho city park for their coming stock exhibition. William Unxter nnd four others asked for and were granted an exten. slon of tho water mnlna to their residences. resi-dences. The Orem railroad asked for and wns granted tho privilege of erecting a sanitary drinking fountain in front of their Btntlon. The city electrician aBkcd for a raise of salary, but his request was politely refused. Tho committeo having in chnrgo tho formation nnd conducting of boys' and girls' club contests asked for' financial help. They wero mndo an appropriation of $25, which will bo used Tor prizes. The board of health was Instructed to take stops toward Improving tho sanitary condition .of several public JlUllulllRSv....-'' ' -- Tho recommendation of the committee commit-tee on electric lights Hint a street light bo placed near tho homo of Mrs. Mary A. Holey was adopted. Tho Kershaw lnne langlo has not been Bcttled. The committeo ou streets wns Instructed to offer Mr. Kershaw the price back that ho paid for the strip or land. A letter front County 'Assessor I. A. Smoot said that tho assessed valuation valua-tion of tho property within the American Amer-ican Fprk City limits was $032,189, This doea not include certain corporate corpor-ate property, such as railroads, telephone tele-phone and power lines, which tiro ns-sessed ns-sessed by the state board of equalization. equaliza-tion. The bids for operating th" sprinkling sprink-ling wagon were opened, showing the following llgures: Owen Dean, 32!ii cents per hour: W. II. Gardner, 31. cents, anil William Hush, 31' cents Gardner was awarded tho contract. The only bid received for the use of certain city property advertised was one for $30 from Peter Heck for the use or the Cannon property. The committee on water works waa Instructed to place n fence around lip Intake, of the city water supply. |