Show CITY COUNCIL > Proceeding at the City Council onT on-T eay etpning October 12th 1880 Mayor Little presiding A communication was enbmittti from William Atwood and nine others residents of the Twelfth and Ttmteenth Ward guaranteeing to pay towards the expense of extending extend-ing the water works along S ocd South street from First to Sixtn East streets in addition t Ibo amount already subscribed the Bum of 220 the same to be refunded in future Uqe water assessments The communication communica-tion was received and the additions amount subscribed accepted acepe Mr B K Thomas presented a patition setting forth that should the Council decide to grant the petition of Louis Reggel and other reuaenU of the Sarauth Ward requesting an extension of the cur water works one and a balf blocks west along Fifth South street ho woud respectfully petition that the extension be con tinned at the same time from the corner of Fifth South street fitteeu rods north on First West street to his own property and to anist in tt e improvement im-provement desired subscribed 125 with the proviso that the sum be credited to him and allowed back according to the usual custom Laid on the table A petition was read signed by Mar ler Brothers and sixty others residents resi-dents pf Commercial street and vicinity vicin-ity calling the attention of the Council to the very bad condition of BiJewlks on said street and par oDII PI ucmuny 1110 oae on IUB east siue thereof and asked in order to render life and property more secure and promote the interests of bosiacs men and the public generally that the eidenaka he repaired as speedily as possible Ibo petition was received aid the supervisor nf streets intlruo led to make AU intimate of f tne coat of f gr diu < ana inioruvins wills gf vet ve-t < of tho wAlk upon the street in question and repast tJ the Council The following petition wa read I 7 the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of ball Lake I Gentlemen Tho undersigned citizens and taxpayers of the City of Salt Lake would peclfully urge upon your honorable body propriety of adopting the electric 1gist 1 lighting our streets according to ths tb proposition now pond ing lVhilo its greater economy must be apparent effecting a saving in five years a we understand it of 36000 there is another and still greater advantage advant-age that must not be lost fight of At present there are but five miles of streets lighted by gas and thee to insufficiently a to maka an inadequate illumination Citizens living on streets off from the gas I mains have no light whatever although thy pay taxes to support the general Eupprt lighting We find that there Jgbt Dg fd are about ninety miles of streets in Salt Lake City and we arc informed that at least sixty miles of street would tecelve some benefit from the electric light According to tho proposition submitted fully twenty miles of streets are guaranteed to b Jignlea more than four times as well as by > a P and the remainder re-mainder of the streets proportionately Since the projectors do not ask tho city to assume any risk wo do cot think and would respectfully suggest it to your honorably body that the fact that the electric light is a new thing in Utah should weigh in your decision upon 1 question of such grot and imnudiao importance to the city And your petitioners will over pray W B Hooper I B Cluwon William Jennings Walker Brother ilcCor nick Co Cunniogton Co London Bank of Utah L S Hills Well Fargo C Barmtt Brothers F Auerbach d Uruther James Dwyer Godbe Pitts k Co Thee G Wobber G A Scott Co Kmball Lawrence Law-rence S P Teaidel Tho = Jennings William I Howe Frank Jennine w 0 Dunbar J T Litte John Sharp James Sharp John Sharp Jr A fi Young John 0 Cutler J P Freeze A Bounds G W Davis W S Godbe George Careless Burton Sons Young M B Callahan J D Tarmar Day Co W F Ihyboult G A Mecrs Josln ark 1 Mo Kimmins Bamburgor Hurly Co Moors Allen Co Mullo Paul Goldsmith el Co Thomas Catler S J Nathan G F Culmer P H Lan nan B W E Jennens A Podlech I George Thureood F J May B S Walclron WV Sadler B Gardiner U I E Phelps Byron Groo Cameron k Co AY Petersen Stein GlanEed Thomas Co J Lubbes John Cook WhIte Sons J Jtt Cook John Short Cutler Bros G Brooks Bow rifle Bros J Sanders W S Price L Price W S Kenner F B Shipp i I J Silver John Galligcr Wm Long more Ireland Watson George 0 i Riser Barton Co Sowlea Miller 1 he Singer Manufacturing Company R Cloghorn Cohn Bro it Alf L I Cleghornb Chn Kegjel Jacob Leviberg 0 L Eluspa GeogoF Prescolt C C Goodwin John A Bailey G 31 Pierce T B A OReilly Bailey Son Fitzgerald Butterfield B B Van Deu en Rivers Uros F Cisler F E Schopp Buckle d Son John Taylor ti Son E Ward W L Wo L Gold ert Rusall Sf Bun Clasbey Hogle M C Phil lips F Platt W O Sander H Brewer C J Guslaveson J L lID hand j W Ihomokins Sons Benites eS Morse J Johnson A Frantzon N H Weight Pieker ing Brothers George Sville T O Horn James Diniroodey J Collins W I Straub W H H Bowers J Alt W E Smedley J C Conkm George II Wyman Isaac Woolf Whitehead Gray W O Smith Morton e1 Tufts Auer Murphy O B Dent W H Culmer George Arbogast Lucas Mcakin T GeTJe ArboJt Aubrey Papworth Gaiver Everill k So man John W Lowell John Farmer J E Paine G iL Forbes J G Brooks John O Scott Charles Poppor H G Park VBIi Pick Puppr I Pickard Morris Evans N Groesbecle and others Referred to the committee on im rovementa to be considered in connectiOn eclion with the proposition of 0 C lathranS and athera Louis Beggel and six others sub mitttd an additional subscription to IkI Trrtflot Qf1 at tho loot mIn nl w uv 4 wo he Council for the extension ol the water mins down Fifth South atree If the work was ordered as petitioners requeited hey would farther guarantee the am of 110 toward the expense of be improvement with the usual condition con-dition in regard to refunding in fa tare water rate Referred to the committee on water works The committee on streets and al bye to whom was referred the petition of 0 J Gastavesan for the privilege of erecting a platform across the water ditch in front cf biB premises on Second Sec-ond lath street for tbe display of prize harness eta for six days from October 6th 1880 reported that they SaW no good reason why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted a the platform would only be tempo rary and could do no injustice to pub iio or private right The committee therefore recommended that the psti 500 be granted Adopted The city attorney who eas recently instructed to cubmit to tbe Council the draft of a deed conveying con-veying the block in the thud municipal ward known aa Union Square from the city t the University of J esert under tbe con ditioni and restrictions desired by tbe Council made a resort accomnanied mae resor by the form of d e required and alto the draft of a resolution authorizing author-izing the proceeding which bg con sdered neccgiarj tp fea P sed l by be Qouncil pfes8 Toe resolution and the deed were each read and prior to their fins approval were ordered to ha sub milted t > the LhaqtJIorand Bar 01 Regents cf the Unirersity of Desere i r tteir acceptance of the condition eto therein contained City Surieyor Jesse W Fox rendered ren-dered a verbal report In relation t the comparative coat of tho lower route contemplated for the Jordan and Sal Lake Cty Canal from Little Cottonwood t this ciy wIth tbo upper route an eitimltb of which latter had Bin nd been submitted to the Council The lower route was the one adopted and partially excavated by the Deseret Irrigation and Navigation Naviga-tion Canal Company and is generally gener-ally known as the Old Cnurcb Canal The upper rate is one surveyed sur-veyed and laid cut forty feet higher than tbe formpr and it adopted will rrjjjate ttnriy ciy blocks or 220 city lot more than the lower route is capable of doing Tbe coat t > f ex cva lon would be about as heavy on mo route AS the other and the dif fi Kolcifs r of oh aiumz the right of way for the upper l ute and trio great expense to be entailed in Suming in order > to prevent seepage etc nould be about equtl to the expense ol eiuiug claims lonnrgwi vesien rignts in the old canal trading or fighting I iwiufa oer pottoos of the rank new ued aa an irrigating ditch etc ItoAfler After a lengthy consideration of the sot aa presented to the Council by the city surveyor and a closo and careful rotriDarnon of the many advantages ad-vantages and davdvonfHjfs nl hotb Quite it ws moved and cmricd ihit the upper one ba adopted for the Jordan and iralt LaVa City Canal and the committee on construction were instructed accordingly I was ordered that a new dove be purchased hr the Council Chamber Adjourned for one week |