Show CITY COUNCIL CM Stock tobeSoiCiiyscayengrr and Engineer The City Council met in regular session last evening Mayor Scott presiding Three quarters of an hour were spent In reading the minutes luiLEarl and others petitioned for an extension of the water mains onF Street nerd to this committee com-mittee on waterworks A Bouhelm asked permission t erect a fruit etindon the Cunning ton corner Hall oljecUU t the granting of this and like requests without tho written content of tho owner and occupant of the ocp property and somoved CarrieJ J A aroesbeck an1 A Miner represented that the bridge across the culvert on North Temple Street was unsafe and too narrow to accommodate accom-modate Uie traffic and asked to have a new ant wider bridge placed there Pembroke moved to refer the matter mat-ter to tie street supervisor with in etrucUons t build the bridge at once Lost and the matter referred t the committee on streets l Stringharu and others petitioned petition-ed to have the grade on South Temple Street established from East Temple to Third East R i ferred to the committee on streets T U Bywater represented that he had been seriously injured by the falling of I bank at the city gravel beds and asked fur SlWO a damages Itefcrred to the com mltteo on claims C S Wilkes and others represented represent-ed that the canal on Seventh East Street between Second and Third SouUiwas in a dangerous condition and asked that it b fumed It err to the committee on Salt Lake J Jordan Canal CS Wilkcs petitioned for leave t flume tbe canal when I losses through a lot on which he is about I t build Referred to lie same committee Catherine Morris represented that she was a poor widow G6 years old and unable to ray the water tax assess ed against her hud that a noOks hud been trfMteil on her hrn ertytbatlt would Itt K > d M t7 unlt the tax usa paid She asked that this tax b remitted Referred to the committee on waterworks The Rio Orande Western by W II Bancroft superintendent petitioned peti-tioned for the iwnuanent use for tracks of a portion of Sixth Wot Street between Second Dud Fourth South and proposed to grade and gravel Seventh West aud several other streets in that neighborhood on condition that tbe petition b granted Accompanying this petition pe-tition went the signatures of all property owners who was claimed were directly Interested in the matter mat-ter also a diagram of the streets in that locality Referred to a special committee of five to bo named later by the Mayor L P Kelsey W S McCornlck and J E Dooley ictlUoned to have the sidewalks on a number of streets In md near the business centre piveJ Referred t the committee on improvement A number of residents of Canyon Road anti vicinity asked t have more electric lights lt up in that locality Referred to the same committee com-mittee teuton Leonard petitioned that garbage wagons b provided to make regular trips through the streets collecting refuse etc Tabled A Ir Williams asked fora new deed to correct an error in a previous previ-ous on public one grounds Referred t lie committee W J Newman asked t b allowed 1 al-lowed t purchase a piece of land on Eleventh West Street between South Temple and Hrcond North Referred to tbe same committee George A Lowe and other hell tlonnl to have paving districts l established bounded as vet forth In the petition under the provisions of the new Territorial law Referred to the committee on improvements L U Hardy and A C Young asked to have Filth South Street opened between Tenth and Eleventh Elev-enth East which thry represented was Improperly closed Referred to the committee on streets A petition signed by all or nearly all the greengrocers in town asked the removal of all fruit stands from the streets and that only farmers who fclt what they rake themselves allowed to reddle green groceries in the city lWsmil to the com mittec on license A motion t refer fer the matter to this committee on streets was resisted by Mr James who said that committee had already in hand all Vie work it could do for several weeks Several 1 merchants asked leave to lay a stone walk across Main Street opposite tbe Hooper A Eldredge building Granted The Salt Lake Literal Band 8 sociation per M It Evans manager man-ager asked leave to give sacred concerts con-certs on Sunday evening and to charge therefor admission fees of 25 cents ali 50 cent Referred to the committee municipal Liwi O A Woolley Dud 74 others po UUoned against the leasing p Washiugton Square t anyone Tabled Ta-bled for the reason that the committee com-mittee on public grounds have in band too other like petitions C E Pomeroy and eleven Others aked that Vine Street In improved fO ol and obstructions I removed mfl1 Referred to tbo committee en street James Hegney and others rpre scnted that certain sidewalk in the neighborhood of the J G Wdepot were iniassable and asked that they b improved Referred to the committee on strerU A P Schroeder asked that an opportunity b given him to compete com-pete In furnkhlug electric lights to Uie city Referred to this committee commit-tee on improvements F I Dyer ant other asked that First West Ktrect between Seventh and Eighth South Improved Referred Re-ferred IP the committee on streets F O Ivclly and others asked leave to lay private waler pipes to their residences Referred to the committee on waterworks The city attorney reported en the matter of the grading of railroad tracks in tha streets putting down plank crossings over them etc showing the conditions In regard t this milter under which different franchises had lieeit given t the S L A F D R R He had teen unable un-able t find any record of a fianchlsc given to or agreement made with the Utah Central or Union Pacific the Utah J Nevada or the R GW Under the contract with the first named it could compelled to put and keep its tracks in order and the Council had power to compel all pwer other roads t do the same He also reported a resolution respecting re-specting a deed to certain land in favor of J J Snell He also reported ported an ordinance creating the office of city engineer He also reported re-ported on certain lands that h been conveyed to the city for aright a-right of way for the i Lake A Jordan Calla with the proviso that I tbo lands were not H occupied should be resold I to the they t te grantors grant-ors The lands bad not been soused so-used and the mater of fixing the value remained t b attended to when the lands should be deeded bck Pembroke asked If I was true that nf record cxisUd ofa franchIse given to any railroad in the city except the Fort Douglass Merrill said he and the recorder rrer had searched In vain for one but that the Council had ample power to compel all railroads t put their tracks in order The report was adopted I The city surveyor reported that ho had established the grade of I First South Street I Adopted The recorder reported that notice i of water extensions on certain i streets bad been published with no I = adA Jt Irotest A I tcbl He also reported re-ported that the bonds of certain city i officers had been filed and that certain cer-tain policemen had been sworn in Adopted This claims committee were granted grant-ed further time on the claim for Judsnn White snWht The committee on wayj and means reported in favor way lng the gas stock owned by the city In the manner provided by law for selling city property Adopted prpry Tim committee on licence Icn recom mended a lebate to Barnhardt i Stobl Adopted The same committee reported adversely ad-versely one petition from 1 Gold berg asking a rebate on his license Tne committee on streets comnUe Hrl recommended recom-mended that the street supervisor furnish estimates of the cost of repairing pairing Fifth West Street between First and Fourth South that tie petition to put up a suspension bridge Ninth I South ana Wash ington streets b rranled u the peUtloB of L P Kelsey regarding Ing certain work on First Soothe Street b granted lat Twelfth East Street b graded that an ordinance 0 led granting certain franchises franchis-es to the Salt Lake Ranld Tmiclt Company Adopted The committee on police recommended recom-mended that five more mede f mat policemen I be added to the plenlen b adde f forcearid that a Bultible be wagon provided to haul to Jail drunken and refractory prisoners Adopted rrlctor The ordinance olem by the S committee streets extending the franchise of the Salt Lake Itapid Transit Companywas read and fifty copies were ordered printed The Mayor read a letter from Councilman Parsons relative to a 20 ton roller for street work I was t dated at Chicago and the writer had there obtained Information tote to-te effect that a 10 st 12 ton roller was much helter The wa luch heter mnyor hail advertised for bids on a 20 ton rid ler but was instructed t change the advertisement 8 as to call for bids for a 10 12 or 2 ton roller The rewltitlon relative t deed e In a certain plrro of land to JJ fInch was considered and adopted A similar resolution for a deed In favor of Levi North he to deed cer lain land to the city was also adopted A resolution t sell back t Franks Frank-s the lands referred to In the city attorneys report in connection wIUi the canal came up Hall moves that the Mayor appoint three ap praisers to fix Uio value of the lands and that hII matter be deferred I I pending the report CarlA Carl-A resolution setting forth that the cut near the joint of the mountain made by the I G W for its track and an the canal In was liable to cave In n u uum S adopted the IUUI make I safe was Artsolution requiring the city surveyor fir the grade on South Temple Street from Third Wit to I the military reservation with I view t paving the sidewalk on the north slle and macadamizing the street was adopted A Ilutol by Pembroke r quiring Uie mayor to ask that tho lands given by the city for Territorial Terri-torial fair purpose and to tbe University I be improved and opened to the public as IKT condition I of thu grants seas adopted The bill for nu ordinance creating the office of city VeDr rted of eiJ scavenger rllrt by the city attorney came up and passed Its first reading length and second by its title aud was deferred till next meeting The bill for an ordinance creating the office of city engineer drawn by the city attorney was read the first time at length and tbe second time by Its title and ordered printed edThe The report of the committee on rules end order of busness came up as unfinished business and two hundred copies r ordered printed The bill for an ordtaanco relative to removing mow mud Ie from streets and sidewalks was deferred indefinitely The bill loran ordinance relative to private sewers ns read at lengU and InHI The Mayor was authorized to advertise ad-vertise for bids for the gas stock owned by he city also to advertise for the purchase ly I the city of ca stock in order to determine the real value uf the stoik The city owns nominally about 100000 worth The sum of S2u905 was aj proprl ateil to meet iXKnses of the citv sexton The finance committee wen Instructed In-structed to report a list of official I salarIes at the next mi cling Adjourned till next Friday evening |