Show farmington FARMING TON FRAO TZONa county cour notes J L snow to furnish S stal aalt new roid road ro id district t news items the county court met in adjourned session on monday april 1895 being a full board present minutes of session held april let were read and approved selectman yel ectman hatch asked for urther further f time to report re porton on the matter of the petition of aaron Granted reported that he lad had investigated the matter of the petition of white sous sons to change the course of a certain road and would recommend that the same be denied recommendation men dation adopted selectman rockwood reported that himself and judge I 1 brandon had bad investigated vesti 0 gated the matter of leasing leaking shale e beds from J L snow mr snow had bad offered to furnish shale to the county in such quantities as the county may wish to use in said vicinity for a term of five years for ar cents per load recommended that the offer of mr snow be accepted recommendation adopted und the attorney instructed to draw up an agreement the committee also reported it bad visited the shale beds owned by john H barlow mr barlow would sell shale for 3 cents per load laid over selectman rockwood reported that he had bad investigated the matter of the petition of J L snow and 52 others and und that the major portion of said road was in bountiful city the matter was dismissed for want of jurisdiction mrs J E weaver a widow of south hooper was allowed to retain her land from the operation of a tax sale by paying the amount of taxes and costs without interest provided the taxes and costs be paid at once selectman rockwood asked for further time to report in the matter of obstructions in the road near win R rices granted judge brandon reported lie be had investigated in relation to a certain indigent idd igent person in bountiful mould recommend that no appropriation be made for his relief report adopted J W singleton verbally represent ed that a certain street running east and west through the SW SIV J of sec 6 tp 4 N R aw 2 W was very narrow asked that the road be either made wider or abandoned himself and mr GW parker had given two rods wide each but mr paces fence was on the street referred to selectman nalder selectman nalder reported lie bad conferred with the owners of the hie water ditch on highway no 22 they will furnish famish six and three fourths days work towards keeping the ditch in repair that being the estimated amount of labor necessary to keep the old ditch up the county to furnish the balance of the labor necessary for a term of two years at which if the ditch is in as good repair as the old ditch was at the time the change was wao made said ditch will be accepted by said owners it if owners are not are willing to leave the matter to arbit arbitration ratin recommended om mended that the offer of said parties be accepted the report was received and the recommendation enda tiou adopted anu antl the attorney instructed to draw up in an agreement in conformity wilb wih report the committee of the whole reported as follows we your committee appointed to visit highway no 22 at request of mr M M whitesides lave have to report that pursuant to said request your committee visited said locality on the aad inot and heard alimony tollit from mr air oilier interested carlies par lies abild also from other oilier persons alio ho use uge said road and from tle the testimony given your committee are of the hie that this court in opening and laying out said road acted in good faith and in accordance with the law lawand and we recommend that the hie action of the court be sustained and that said road be maintained as laid out and platted the recommendation men dation was adopted on motion of 0 selectman hatch all that portion of davis county lying south of a line running east and west on the south line of township 2 borth of the salt lake meridian was cut off from road district no I 1 and designated as bonneville road district and john Bar burtenshaw was appointed supervisor of said bonneville road district for the term prescribed by law on motion of selectman rock kock wook was appropriated for graveling highway no 1 said amount to be expended under the direction of selectman hatch CLAIMS ALLOWED john winegar for killing hilling muskrats bounty account john dincau roads roada account selectman rockwood was authorized to cover highway no 1 for a distance of 0 three rods with shale from J L snows shale beds to ascertain the Aur durability ability of sai said d shale adjourned to mon april 22 1895 PROBATE NOTES monday april 1895 estate of william barnes deceased chas barnes administrator order confirming sale of certain real and personal estate made and filed Esta estate teof of Wm Williams celear son administrator return and account C sad of sale of real estate filed and order made setting monday april for hearing on return estate of elisha millard deceased jane millard administratrix order made appoint appointing lug appraisers appraiser and publishing notice to creditors monday april ath estate of amos fairbanks chas E H pearson administrator order of sale of real estate made estate of hyrum J layton petition of letters of administration to be issued to ezra IV layton filed and hearing thereon set act for monday april 22 1895 ITEMS turner and rogers will complete their contract gradi grading ing on the US ry chii ahli week at a recent meeting of the board of directors or of the davis county bank a second dividend of five per cent was declared and 2500 added to the surplus fund the teachers institute meets here next saturday as announced in last weeks clipper last friday the little daughter of mr and mrs blumell who has been sick for quite a long time died and was buried on monday mr and mrs walter rampton mourn the loss lose of their infant son who died on thursday last the funeral services were held here on sunday but the remains were taken to bountiful for burial mrs joseph walker is very pitk tle the stockholders of the farmington Commer commercial ciul manufacturing co held an annual meeting on monday evening from the appearance of things private residences and public buildings in farmington will soon be illuminated with natural gas and the house bouse wife will do her cooking with the same kind of fuel this will surely boom the town COUNCIL proceedings the city council of farmington city met in regular session bastou last monday evening being present co councilmen uncil rose coombs mayor wilcox presided richard A keyes made a verbal petition to the council to have an ordinance passed giving him a franchise and right of way to lay gas mains in city to supply the town with natural or manufactured gas as he may decide the ordinance or art frt franchise he proposed ed to the council to have passed was prepared by his big attorney it asked that mr air keyes be granted the exclusive and irrevocable right for twenty five years and promised that he would furnish gas at the rate of 50 cents per 1000 cubic feet and agreed to accept the grant within ninety days and to have the gas mains laid to main street within six months or forfeit all rights right this matter was referred to the comi com i mutee on ordinances which reported on the same the following evening the committee changed the price of the gas from 50 to 40 cents and shortened the jimb for acceptance from 90 to 60 days added two sections to the ordinance one providing that a bond be put up tip for the faithful acceptance and recommended that the ordinance be adopted and mr keyes be given twenty four hours to file letters of acceptance with the recorder tiie ordinance was passed mr keyes in speaking on the ordinance said that he meant business and did not want the matter delayed would go right to work as soon as he be could get the right of way said that gas at 50 cents per 1000 cubic feet was equivalent to coal a per ton when the committee reported mr keyes said lie he would gladly accept all the alterations made in the ordinance by the committee except the reduction of the price of gas about which be would have consult other parties interested with willi him before he could give any definite answer in regards to th the bond he be said it was customary in other places for the cities to offer a bonus to induce new enterprises to come but in this case it was reversed but that it did not make any difference to him for he meant business it was wag reported that the water from the hie north cottonwood Cutt onwood creek turned into a new channel made by the city was washing near millers place and that parties residing in that vicinity wanted the city to look of after ter the matter but the council held that the new ditch was a benefit to those 1 eople who complain and that they should be will williner iniz to see to it that the trouble could be remedied hy by turning part of the water ater into another ditch the lowe home I 1 natural gas fuel co of farmington of which thomas steed is president and john walsh Wal sili manager also presented a petition asking 0 for a grant to lay jay gas mains main 8 from their gas lands into farmington I 1 city ity this petition was also alao referred to 0 the committee on ordinances E B B clark was appointed meat inspector for farmington city TUESDAY EVENING the in mayor abor presided and the same councilmen were present that were in attendance on the pre previous evening bishop and members of the ecclesiastical board were present stated that they bad investigated the matter ot of transferring the deed of the cemetery over to the city but L J who Is posted on these matters had recommended that it be deeded over to the ecclesiastical board of directors the bishop is now holding the deeds so a resolution was pais ed by the council relinquishing all rights to further control it the board is to assume the debts contracted by the council it was stated that the north cottonwood irrigation co had bad given six shares of its stock to the cemetery but that the water I 1 had to be exchanged for water from steed creek aud and that no onebah one had been found yet ath whom the exchange could be made the recorder was instructed to notify the street commissioner to have obstructions in the streets removed and to have certain fences which stand out in the streets moved back to where they belong council adjourned sine die to meet the 2nd and monday in july |