Show THE CITY C I 1 fl 1 quorum present water que question again agitated Agitate dS the city fathers met last thursday evening in the basement of of the afie tabernacle bernacle ra at the usual hour almlof the he councilmen except riley ivere present the recorders abs absence ence drew out soine some expressions 0 of 1 regret fro from inthe the 1 councilmen coonc almen 1 as fi ha 1 had some much needed papers paper sr j f clipper publishing company I 1 pre dented a bill for job printing and advertising which was referred d to the recorder I 1 I 1 the bountiful lumber companas comp anys bill was riot allowed last week as stat fettled ed in lait issue but was I 1 again f r presented I 1 ca aud ud ibis this time lime allowed I 1 the bill amounted to over I 1 79 and included the frame house I 1 over the cage and repa repairing irino fy abc thea I 1 hall tor for the council i star printing companas comp anys wa bia for printing docket pook book wasa was allowed llowd just before commencing to read an ordinance pertaining to laping awater tax a kid bolted into the council room aud and asked haiat there going go i n to be no meeting tonight but lie he did not remain long enough to get an answer and if the marshal hadi been present he might chave hurried off still faster without much difficulty ahe ordinance was read through the first time but on its second reading some iome misunderstand misunderstanding ing arose and a heavy discussion followed i I 1 councilman pace was very de desirous or piping the creeks an idea crept in that the flume or pipe mu must st follow the bed of the creeks creek and that the money voted upon by bv the people could not be used it the water wis was taken out of the euln channel clia unel faiq difficulty now seemed ito be was believed would be expensive and a nd would not last if tle the flumes blumes were placed in the creek bottoms could there therb be short cuts made to shorten the distance in bends of of the creek was asked and anaw answered ered in the affirmative by me a attorney I 1 tto ey this showed that as long ati a the I 1 water is conducted into the creek at the divides tha thalmas thal was all that thata was all 0 ahat was necessary now when all the councilors councillors counci lors had become iacome convinced that the water I 1 co could pe be taken out of I 1 the the main creeks us allonge longe C as a it did not no damage anyone they proceeded to consider how much of voted by the people could codd be 0 sani spent for bluming 0 I 1 or improving the creeks 1 and wat at portion would be pe needed to pa pay the head an 1 sub si councilman fackrell showed that there wera many water claimants who were widows and who did not attend attend the water meetings and vote for the tax and that it would be a heavy burden for or them to raise the required red money so the council saw fit to fix the tax at S 75 per acre 25 cents to be used for water masters ps services and head bead gates and the re bainder for bluming flu ming 0 and repairing 0 the creeks this Thi spart part of the ordinance is relating to mill creek at the mo ath of mill creek canyon 4 3 said aid i C councilor c ajor natch hatch there is a 11 good bedot rock in 1 inthe creek and I 1 I 1 tile the loss of 1 I ater is not great but iche creek could be from that point to within a quarter ter of mile of t the he grist mill much water might inight be saved savedge sav edHe Ife had made an aly how holy much I 1 money would bt be required to name flume that dis distance kanbe and showed that alia 1 t 50 cents per I 1 aar cr 0 be enough to do the work many other reasons were given for re the tax fix alu ellch rd unable to gly ade this time coil H journ ed I 1 lo 10 0 naia aca u thursday ay at 7 p m W |