Show COUNCIL HEARS ENGINEERS REPORT the regular meeting ot of the city council was li held eid last friday evening mayor erdmann and councilmen Is and madsen Pres present crit mrs phoebe north appeared and presented a petition numerously signed asking the city to construct a foot bridge across box elder creek alongside the stone bridge on north main street matter was referred to committee on streets and sidewalks I 1 with power tor to act N C simonsen chairman of the parks appeared and asked the council to install lights around the north pond in order that a skating rink might be provided when cold weather eather A comes and the people of the city may have the pleasure of 0 skating in the evenings mr simonsen also submitted a report of 0 the work done by his committee thus far which was accepted and tile council advised mr simonsen that his recommendations would be referred to the incoming ad minin backed up by the hearty support of the present officials application of henry seeger tor for permission to erect a barn within the fire limits was referred to the building committee and building inspector biti power to act the committee appointed to purchase a gravel pit submitted a report on that transaction which was accepted and ordered filed the report seta sat forth that the committee upon appointment immediately set about to secure a pit and investigated a number of sites prices differed some of the parties asking as much as 1000 per acre the munns pit was finally decided upon after learning from mr munns that it could be purchased and when a cash payment was tendered mr air munns advised tae commit committee tee that mr 11 C carver held an option on the property the then took ave th m a u alth air mr cir carver ye who made a price of 2475 for the property which was just about halt half the amount asked for the other properties and this price was to include clude all costs of surveying abstract of title etc 11 II U carver city engineer submitted a report also on the purchase ot of the munns gravel pit which was as follows I 1 to tie tae honorable mayor mayar and city council gentlemen pursuant to your request for a state ment from me regarding the matter of the purchase from me of a gravel pit by your committee I 1 shall state for your information as well as that of the public lest there be some laboring under a misapprehension of the matter that early in the year I 1 was engaged by certain outside corporations po to assist in Invest investigating investigate igat various gravel banks and to locate others also to investigate the titles thereto and in my own name for their use and benefit to obtain options on same I 1 succeeded in obtaining options on certain of the sites among them being tie lie arthur J munns holdings which lay east of the city As stated in its report your committee approached me with the view to purchasing same and after making the necessary arrangements I 1 submitted a proposition to it conditioned upon its acceptance or rejection within a given time later your committee no rifled me of its acceptance of said proposition provided a clear title and certain rights of way be provided this was done and I 1 notified your committee to that effect and further advising advising 9 it that I 1 was in a position to convey the promises premises to brigham city at the suggestion of a member ot of that committee tie lie name of brigham city corporation po ration was inserted la in lieu heil of mine as grantee in the deed of conveyance from mr munns and his wife the proposition submitted to your committee provided for the payment to me tor for my interests of the sum of 2475 net promptly upon the payment to me as aforesaid I 1 delivered to your committee them the leed deed and ab lof of title together with an agree ent tern temporary right light 0 of T way ay for said id site it might be of interest to you to know upon what basis the purchase price was arrived at to that end I 1 submit the following time consideration etc devoted by outside corporation time devoted by another enginger transportation and exp eap of both local transportation and exp eap of boti bota non local legal services 2700 paid out on other options service rendered by me in making surveys examining titles investigating sites and taking options over a considerable sid erable period of time total cash paid mr air munns SOO credit for abstract and clearing title 1000 purchase price paid by brig city to meet above expense war conditions and the trimming of budgets provided for development purposes were due to the action taken by the outside corporations I 1 represented in ili temporarily withdrawing from taking up their options and allowing some of them to lapse respectfully submitted H C carver bishop hyrum W valentine ot of the third ward appeared and asked the council to furnish the third ward chapel and the ward amusement hall with tree free legats hg its matter was referred to electric light committee tor for investigation ti and report at the next meeting city surveyor 11 II C carver made a verbal report ol of the filing on the waters of box elder creek by the brigham city conservation co A number ot of claims were then allowed and the meeting adjourned to saturday night at which meeting councilmen isaacson hansen freder dicksen and madsen were present mr air isaacson occupied the chair and the matter of 0 selling the bonds came up for consideration those present voting aye that tie fae bonds be offered a I 1 5 12 1 2 per cent the recorder was then instructed to notify palmer bond mortgage company of the action taken and ask those people to proceed with the advertising tor for public sale of same to tako take place at the statutory time upon the acceptance or rejection of plan by the state industrial commission sw vy |