Show THE CITY COUNCIL all the councilmen were present at last lart tuesday evenings session of the city council of bountiful city mayor holbrook presiding three sets of minutes of previous meetings were read and approved street committee commil tec reported on the petition of L call asking for the privilege of making an excavation of his store for the purpose of putting in stairs the committee thought the stairs could be located on the side of the building Imil ding and re 1 l ammend d that it be not granted recommendation adopted and peti tion lion not granted the special committee commil tec appointed to survey mr taylors naylors nay lora lors land reported that the survey had been III le antl and that it il was found that there its ia two and forty five one acres of land in the pile A long debate followed in which councilman willey and hatch were the principal participants about all the evidence in the case was reviewed councilman willey thought as tl there ere was nas not quite two and one half acres of land in tile piece that thai the petitioner should ool only y draw water for tile the land he be actually possessed councilman heywood suld said that as sir mr naylor had offered to make a compromise which was about the same as the actual land RS as measured lacking only five one hundredths he favored accepting it then arose the question as to whether the council had the power to make compromises heywood holding that lie tilous thought lit the council could do anything that it il saw would be to the best interests of the citizens it was finally cx explained by hatch that there was no need of a compromise as mr naylor had fully two and one half arces of laud land explaining that in the whole piece there was a fraction less than six acres that this land was divided pretty nearly the centre making three acres east cast side of the lie line which draws twenty ini nute per acre and the fraction that is wanting to make the abole piece six acres is all that I 1 the he lower piece lacks of being three acres ile he further said that at the top lop end of the land in controversy there was annot an nother ber little piece that was not drawing water from anywhere and it had evidently been watered from the lower ditch and lie he thought it would not be making a compromise to give him water for two and one half acres as there is more than that amount of land thereby including the little piece mentioned air naylors taylors Nay lors petition was finally settled by granting him water for two and one half acres of land at the previous meeting joseph argyle jr and james neville were cited to appear and show cause why their acreage should not be cut down the water record showed fifteen acres in favor f vor of joseph argyle jr mr argyle said that he be was ter bibly surprised to hear that he had fifteen acres of water that he never claimed more than ten acres that he had never paid for more than ten and that lie he had never even used that as lie he had driven flowing wells and only paid his water tickets to keep the right As for taking it from the merrit estate he had never thought of such a thing and that all the time lime that lie farmed that land he be never used any water on oil it and in fact there never had bad been any water waler used on the land since he knew it and that was for twenty or thirty years ile he added that the land was so that it could not be watered with the exception of a portion ol of tile the lower end ile he said that when lie he worked the land that he be had bad late in the summer used some of the water from mr wm jacksons springs to irrigate some on the lower end councilman hatch explained that the water record on the west bountiful 1 branch of mill creek was in a bad condition and that a mistake like that could easily occur as last summer a certain abandoned the old records and started to make one for himself and possibly lie he was given too much water at that time recorder wits was instructed to change record of joseph argyle jr from fifteen to ten acres james neville it was thought had the two acres of water which the sullivan petition calls for but mr neville explained that he had something over thirteen acres of land but for the last twenty or thirty years had always draped water for fifteen acres in fact lie he had bad purchased the land for that amount said that formell formerly y people who had bad orchards were given an hour extra and emphatically stated that the sul livan two acres had bad not been added to his time lime he said that his time ti me had bad already been reduced two acres acres but that sullivans time had bad not been increased lie wondered when t the order for the change was waa made the sullivan and eldredge rind and barlow petitions were re committed to the water committee for further investigation A water certificate from the county court showing that a certain lot of the late F P G sessions estate for which a petition had been sent into hie file council by lucina lucin a sessions asking for water for the same was read an earnest discussion arose over the merits of a water certificate some holding that such a certificate was all that is necessary to hold a pr primary I 1 right that the right was like personal property and could not be lost while others claimed that while a certificate might be good today if the owner of tile the water failed to use it in eight years from now it would not be any good rulings of the courts were freely cited to establish points some of the council thought that it would be the best for her to get the signers on her ditch and then the matter could soon be made right the mayor to whom had been referred the matter of license regarding dancing at the pavilion in eden park said the attorneys had not given him a decided answer yet council 1 adjourned to next tuesday ev evening avenido eniDO 0 |