Show 1 GOT DOWjJ I TO BUSINESS f A Big Evenings Work by the City Council A YETQ FROM THE MAYOR lie Disapproves the Franchise Granted Electrician Jones Some of the Departments Report Theiv c Married 1ICll and Taxpayers But Ryan and lilacs Arc Sot Heard from Routine Business The city council met last evening and by way of variety immediately cot down to business and did a large evenings work Councilman Beardsley presided and all members were present except Bell and Loofbourow J E Dooly eta asked that the intersection inter-section of Second South and West Temple street be paved with bituminous rock aspliaJtam instead of stone blocks on the ground that the former is Jess noisy costs less and is warranted for five years Denied The Commercial National bank and Commercial Block association sent in a communication stating that they had been erroneously assessed on their Second Sec-ond South street frontage in the sum of 1369 per front foot as their curbing had already been constructed under the supervision of the city engineer Further Fur-ther that the cost of paving in the said street should be 9S9 per front foot to k t them instead of 1369 and they asked that the matter be adjusted Referred to board of public works William Sheppard asked that the city pay him 20 for damages to his carriage caused by obstructions in the street Referred Re-ferred to committee on claims F E McGurrin et ale asked that SI street be graded from Brigham to Fourth street Referred to committee on streets The Utah Slaughtering company asked I that a place be designated for them to deposit de-posit garbage from their slaughter house Referred to sanitary committee A SUPERANNUATED FLUME Edward F Colborn called attention to the condition of the water flume and headgate to the same on Fort Douglas avenue and declared that the flume had outlived its usefulness and is a magnificent magnifi-cent ruin while the headgate is only I valuable as an illustration of primitive irrigation I ir-rigation methods Of course he wished I the matter remedied Referred to irrigating irrigat-ing committee and upon their report recommending that the flume and head gate be repaired it was referred back for an estimate of cost W W Chisholm et al asked that William Spier be appointed a special policeman po-liceman without pay to patrol both sides of Brigham street from Sixth to Eighth East streets Granted and referred to the j mayor The Deseret National bank stated that they had paid 516640 for curbing on the front of their premises and understanding understand-ing that the same is included in the paying pay-ing tax asked that the sum be refunded Referred to board of public works E E Ritchie et al asked that John Edmundson be appointed on the city police po-lice torce Referred to committee on police po-lice A JI Spooner et al asked that Center street be sprinkled Referred to committee commit-tee on sprinkling Edward Home asked that his title be cleared to certain property erroneously sold for taxes Referred to city attorney L E Holt et al asked for water main extension on Third South and Riverside avenue Golden Park addition 400 feel west from the present terminus Referred to committee on water works The county clerk submitted a copy of the resolutions aSopIeS by the county court on Monday last with reference to the rate of county taxation Filed A ATUHAl GAS EXTENSION A communication was received from the New American Natural Gas company stating that they had been constantly drilling and prospecting since the council granted them a ifancnise andin so doing had expended a large amount of money and discovered two additional flows of excellent natural gas It was further Elated that the companys wells reduced to a twoInch pipe with a sixtypound pressure of gas into the mains would convey con-vey into the city nearly 10000000 cubic feet of gasin twentyfour hours Further that they had been using their best endeavors en-deavors to perfect the necessary arrangements arrange-ments regarding distribution in the city by July 1 1893 but had been unable to do so owing to the stringency of money matters Now they asked that section 3 of their franchise be amended granting them further time in which to conduct gas into the city Referred to committee on municipal laws H E Redfield offered to duplicate the Fourth precinct fire station in the Second precinct for 549S3 Laid over temporarily temporar-ily W P OMeara desired to lease the clay lands on the southeast of the eouthwes quarter of section 28 township 1 north of range 1 east for twentyfive years upon the payment to the city of 10 cents > per load for all clay removed He further y stated that he would give employment to about twentyfive men Referred to the committee on public grounds The county clerk reported the action taken by the county court relative to urging the city authorities to repair the bridges crossing the Jordan and Salt Lake canal in the southern part of the county Referred to committee on irrigation irri-gation The city recorder reported the action of t the board of equalization and review on 7 sewers as taken Monday evening June 26th and recommended that the matter be referred to tho city attorney to draft the usual ordinance Laid over The city engineer submitted an estimate of the cost of constructing a sewer on the north side of Second South street between Fifth and Ninth East streets the same being 3 per front foot or a total of 59504 Usual order made The board of public works reported that they had entered into a contract with Frank Harrigan for constructing cement pavements along various streets in accordance > ac-cordance with the bids opened by the board on JiayS and that 10000 bono had been executed as reauired with F L Parker and D A D epue sureties Adopted and contract approved The board of public works recommended recom-mended that the amount of 4320 be re lunded to Francisco Biancullio as he is laying a flagstone walk by private contract con-tract the amount having been paid on a levy in the usual way Adopted provisional pro-Visional upon the acceptance of the work by the board of public works FIRE HOUSE CONTRACTS Tho board of public tvcrks reported that they had entered into a contract with W A Wight for the construction of a firehouse fire-house in the First precinct for 4635 under the plans ana specification prepared pre-pared by Messrs Monheim Bir Ire Proudfoot Also that the contractor had executed the required bond iu the sum of 2500 with L 0 Miller and H P Mason sureties The same old argument followed the reading of the rdport A motion to postpone until other bids were in was lost ana a motion to adopt was also lost The board further reported that the contract for the erection of the fire house in the Fourth precinct bad been awarded to H E JRedfield for 54993 and that he had executed a 2500 bond with S W Morrison and Edward Merrill sureties all of which was satisfactory to the board A motion to adopt was lost The superintendent of water works sent in a requisition for supplies needed in his department Referred to waterworks water-works committee STANT HOWrpP The lollowin as the outgrowth ot Wantlands IIC ajugal solution was r 1 received from Chief Stanton of the fire department Ii GtNTtEiiEK There are employed in the Salt Lake city fire depart ment thirty men including in-cluding myself thirteen are married men and seventeen are single but will state that the majority of the single men have families support Every member employed in this department de-partment is an American citizen of Salt Lake city a voter and a majority of the department depart-ment are taxpayers Laid over The street supervisor stated that since the annexation to the city in the south east part the sprinkling district goes to Eleventh South street and that he had made temporary arrangements with the parties who sprinkle for the county to attend tend to the matter while awaiting other arrangements Referred to committee on sprinkling The city recorder called attention to the Importance of the appointment of a board of equalization and revision on sidewalks Adopted The city recorder called attention to the fact that the committee on sewerage recommended rec-ommended on June 23 that a date be set when the council would meet and dispose of the question of rebatement on sewer taxes which was adopted with no date fixed Adopted and matter to be taken up Friday evening The city recorder reported that the lists and plats pertaining to local assessment No 153 for water main extension on Ninth East between Ninth South and Roper street had remained in his office for ten days and as the notice of completion comple-tion had been published he submitted same for final confirmation Referred to committee on water works The city engineer submitted an estimate esti-mate of the cost of constructing a sower on the north side of Second South street between Fifth and Ninth East the amount being 9504 or 3 per front foot Adopted MARRIED MEN AND TAXPAYERS In compliance with Wantlands resolu ion adopted recently regarding the employment ployment of married men in the different departments reports were received from the following city officers 3f Em lIar Sin Tax ulcers ployed TiEd glee payers Chief of Police 51 41 10 51 Sanitary Inspector Inspec-tor 28 oo G 28 City Recorder 4 4 0 4 City Treasurer 4 4 0 4 cemetery dept S t 7 1 8 Laid over The city engineer sent in a statement of the approximate cost of articles needed in his department for July The amount I was 11250 The purchase was author I ized THE JONES FRANCHISE VETOED The following was received from the I mayor C E Stanton DEAR SinI herewith return disapproved the resolution granting to Robert M Jones certain cer-tain privileges and franchises passed by the council Tune SO 1893 for the reason that the I right it not reserved to the city to regulate and I limit the charges which shall be made under said franchises The reason why such reservation reserva-tion should be made was fully expressed in my veto of the Salt Lakeand Ogden Gas and Electric Elec-tric Light company B N BASKIN Mayor Laid over to come up later POLICE COURT REPORT The police justice submitted his report for June as follows Fines assessed 52145 00 Remitted by the mayor H 10 00 Paid in labor u 667 50 Fines appealed 1000 Cash paid treasurer l4o 60 Total uu 82145 00 Referred to police committee GALEAZZIS WORK The city recorder submitted the following follow-ing Number male dogs registered 122 at S L 244 Number female dogs registered at 33 117 Pound fees collected u n 4 Total C85 Dogs killed 47 Due Samuel Galeazzi 5205 Adopted The city attorney recommended that the petition of Mary Sud for relief from a tax sale be granted Adopted PARLEYS CANYON WATER BIGHTS The land and water commissioner recommended that the springs in Parleys canyon be cleaned out and that the city immediately take steps to put on record its appropriation of waters to prevent claims by settlers and that 500 be appropriated ap-propriated for the purposes named Refer Re-fer ed to the mayor city attorney and city engineer for recommendations as to the report also for a statement concerning concern-ing status of the water rights heretofore paid for by the city ih Emigration canyon can-yon yonThe city attorney submitted an ordinance ordi-nance confirming the assessment lists made by the treasurer and collector of Salt Lake city Sewer district No6 Laid overTHE THE JENNINGS ESTIMATE Tho board of public works submitted with their approval the fifth partial estimate esti-mate of the city engineer in favor of the CulmerJennings Paving company on the work of paving and curbing Main First and Second South streets in the sum of 1575051 and recommended that it be paid Adopted The committee on streets recommended that the petition of H L Driver et al asking that tho canal crossing Seventh East between Second and Third South be covered be denied Adopted The chairman announced the appoIntment appoint-ment of the following councilmen as aboard a-board of equalization and review on sidewalk side-walk assessments Hardy Heiss Kar rIck Lawson and Moran BIDS ON WATER PIPE The committee on sewers reported that they had received the following bids for 5J646 feet of assorted sewer pipe McNalr Ankrom 185929 Denver Sower Pipe company 2024 84 J S Morse Sons 1884 25 Gladding MoBean Co 2050 00 They also recommended that the committee com-mittee on sewers be authorized to close a contract with McNair Ankrom as they were the lowest bidders the contract to be referred to the council for its approval Referred back to the committee to get new bids for cash and on time NO VAGS DEPORTED The committea on police reported that no vagrants had been driven into Davis county as complained of by the authorities authori-ties of that county Adopted and the recorder re-corder instructed to so notify the persons making the complaint THE STAHLJIANN FRANCHISE The committee on municipal laws returned re-turned the petition of Otto Stalman for a street car franchise and recommended that certain amendments be made which was concurred in by the city attorney The report was signed by Loofbourow Simondi Heiss and Hardy and Home who is also a member of tho committee was very much incensed because he haa not bee asked to sign it and moved to refer it back The motion was lost and the matter was laid over temporarily Tho committee on water works recommended recom-mended that the petition of F Kessler et al extension of water mains on Fifth West and North Temple street be granted Adopted The committee on municipal laws recommended re-commended that no further action betaken be-taken on Wendel Bensons franchise as he had withdrawn his petition Adopted The committee on irrigation recommended recom-mended that Miller Miller be allowed to change the course of the canal on lot 4 block 56 plat B Referred to city engineer THE WATER REPORT The assessor and collector of water rates filed his report for the year ending June 30 as follows Original assessment 71039 8t Additional assessment 105 20 Total 472993 01 CREDIT Charged to accounts SCO 252 69 Cash paid treasurer 527022 Bill of J HBowman in hands of committee com-mittee 175 00 County court bill 153 00 Rebate on houses torn down 695 53 Unpaid rates 247 50 Secured accounts unpaid 183 10 Cash on hand ju 00 Total i299204 Cash collected July 1691 to June 30 1832 87355 15 A r o > Cash collected July 11892 to June 30 1S93 5210 22 Decrease 8 2084 93 Water credit on script 5224567 14 I Held on same account last year 214861 40 IncreasB 8 9702 74 Water credit cancelled from July 1 1872 to June 301893 806237 69 Same last year 5407627 Increase 12101 42 Water taps assessed for the year ending June 30 1892 u 5902 Same for 1893 6683 Increase 781 Water mains 125 miles furnishing 20005000 gallons of water per day r Filed APPROPRIATIONS Metropolitan Stone company 5 389 25 Eagle Foundry and Machine company 142 50 William McQueen 300 Morrison Merrill ti Co 272 94 Thomas McCoy 5 00 Cunnlngton company 2590 Cunnlngton company 10 A9 Western Hardware company 4 60 Moritz Greenwood 7 00 Salt Lake Building and Manufuotur tag company 54 00 AWCatne Co 875 T A Phillips 00 10 CO Pu McGurrin 10330 Tribune Job Printing company 22 00 Utah Book and Stationery company 9 48 C JR Savage u 1265 Salt Lake Lithographing company 87 50 Sears Liddio 30 Utah Title Insurance and Trust company com-pany 000 Utah Brick Manufacturing company 18 00 A W PnJnn X fn uuuu 5 25 OH Parsons 5 C5 G M ScottCo 1990 Grocer company 250 Eagle Foundry and Machine company 218 83 A O Smith Co 75 I A W Catne Cou 570 Morrison Merrill Co n 6 38 James Spencer Bywater Co 13 64 G1I Scott Li Co 1808 Mountain Stone company 101 20 W H Eeyan 9 90 Bridge Kirk Co H6 25 J C Murphy Co 25 The Herald Publishing Co 00 n 12 CO Tho Herald Puolishinjr Co 29 50 I The Grocer Printing Cou 3375 A it Caino Co 1 50 g gg Iellyto 750 Salt Lake k Ogden Gas and Electric Light COnn 154 17 Joseph Lippman 17340 if R 2J 1 Mount Griffin 2353 10 H O Heath 20000 Sam Galeazzi Un 0000 00 00 Stinker Hoff nnu 25 00 Jamos Austin 750 Edward Oleson 15 00 Miss L Trent n 420 3ulmerJennlngs Paving Co 15750 51 Houlahan Morris hn moo 1990 00 Rio Grande Western Hallway Co 65 04 Salt Lake Ogden Gas and Electric Light Co 329 00 Adjourned until Friday evening i |