| Show RECONSIDER VOTE TO ENLARGE CANAL Councilman Mulvey Blocks Plan to Spend For Improvements DELAY OF ANOTHER WEEK MAYORS VETO OF AUDITORS APPOINTMENTS SUSTAINED Another weeks delay In the enlarge enlargement enlargement ment of the surplus canal resulted last night at the s session of the city coun council cil dl ii when Councilman Martin Mulvey gave notice of ot a reconsideration of the tAO vote at the next session The plan to spend for the improvement of the canal and thus take much of the water out of the Jordan river would have carried by a vote of 12 to 3 only Mulvey J B Moreton and Pres Free President President ident W Mont Ferry erry voting against It As a means of blocking the appropriation approprIation Councilman Moreton said he had received a proposition to remove the earth in the canal for tor 18 IS cents per cubit cubic yard jard against the charge of 25 2 tents cents by the Utah Sand Dredging Construction company Another party part parthe he said told him they the could do the work for 11 cents per cubic yard ard The I I committee on finance last Thursday night passed a report rel ort recommending to o the tile council that this money be spent I to remove cubic yards and the balance for widening flumes and other expenses Mulvey wants the council to spend the for a Ii dredger for the city to be used on the Jordan and in the surplus canal Samuel H Auerbach through H J JWallace JWallace 1 Wallace asked the council to instruct the city engineer to provide him with surveys grades and inspection for water mains and sewers for streets to tobe tobe tobe be opened up In block 53 63 plat A which is bounded by b Third South Second East Fourth South and State streets and was the largest piece of ground purchased purchase l by Mr Auerbach in the 2 realty deal about two months ago One paragraph of the letter said Dedicate Streets to City It Is my intention to curb gutter and pave these streets and put in the proper size water and sewer mains after work is done I will dedi dedicate dedicate cate ate the streets to Salt Lake City cor corporation corporation corporation I IJ J L J May and others petitioned the council to grade curb gutter and place sidewalks on all streets from Ninth to Eleventh avenues and from A to C streets The Royal Baking company wants the alley back of Main street stores to be extended north to Second South street The councils attention was called to the fact that Bergerman Nelson had a young oun saloon running at the fair fairgrounds fairgrounds fairgrounds grounds during the aviation meet with without without without out a permit from the city and the matter will be taken up by the license I committee John S Br veto of the appointments of City Cit Auditor Ru flu Rudolph Rudolph dolph Alff in the license department was sustained by b the council after atter somewhat of a fight and in the face of ot the opinion of the city attorney that the mayor had nothing to say in regard to the appointments of any elective officer The appointees ap how however however however ever will continue to draw their pay pa paH H J Schultz the mayors appointee for clerk of the board of or health was approved unanimously by br the council after Moreton withdrew his objection which had started the fight a week ago Anticipating this action Schultz went to work yesterday esterday in the health department A stinging criticism of the time methods in the city auditors office was handed out by L E Hall directed against Chief Deputy Clarence B Stevens St vens He pointed to the fact that the tile state law demands that the auditor furnish to the mayor and council not later than the first week in February of each year ear a complete statement of the finances He said this had not come until May or June In both 1908 and 1909 and said If the appointments were approved It would woul l encourage such delays The council approved the auditors appointments appointment It of Stevens E A Bock J J Acomb and Charles Weaver and they were passed up to the mayor Councilmen Hall and Reed all voted vote l against them Gist of Routine Business The new garbage franchise with the Saltair railroad went to the board of estimate and apportionment A resolution by A J Davis demand demanding ing lug that property owners asking for surveys from the city engineers office pay the actual cost and that those seeking house numbers pay pa 25 cents per number went over a week The council passed l a resolution de demanding demanding manding mantling that the Oregon Short Line Lino company compan at once enlarge the North Temple s street reet viaduct to twice its present size Three miles of sidewalks in the northwest part of the city were ordered by the council The council voted to spend spen l 2 O for foran foran foran an oil painting of Mayor John S Bransford the mayor to choose his own artist This follows an old ol l custom H 11 S Margetts was Vas cited to appear before the council next Monday even evenIng evenIng evening Ing to tell why he has not confined l his hilt diggings for sand and gravel near the Warm arm Springs to the limits proscribed I by hI the land and water commissioner He lie will also how ho he got goot the I rock crusher on his ground with without without without out consent |
