Show I weekSPRGVLS SPRGVLS STEETS steps Taken Tnwtrd Their Immediate Improvement Special Corresponaence Sprlngve Feb The meeting of the city council last evening was a very lively I nnd interesting affair and 3 great deal of business was transacted An ordinance isas passed creating I graeling district No to include all of plat A not taken In by graveling district Jlat 1 and levying In said No 2 a tax I amounting to utiard of JO said tax to > cxpcnocu Iy Ule Cluzen against whom It Is assessed in grading and put tlng gravel on the sidewalks along their lots This measure has been found to be hghl successful In district No1 the walks when properly treated being almost al-most alltogcther free from mud In foul alto < weather A brIdge over Bobble creek on Grant street Was also provided for at a cost of about m Resbtsnts of that neighborhood I neighbor-hood donated L in labor towards it iAn i-An ordinance was passed providing for the collection of a pall ta in the city i I The prooslton to allow the county to collect the Poll tax was brought uP and j a very earnest discussion ensued A protest I pro-test signed by l citizens was read and Y l is ilie I after prolonged argunients the measure was put to vote and decated The defeat 01 the measure WS principally due to the I fact that I the city relinquished Is poll tax this year a property road tax could not be levied until July not In the nieaa I time there would be no lds with which to make necessary repairs on the streets A ueleinltioii of iallton iteolile relm I I fentn the Mapleton Canallteservnir Irrigation ompall Wi JJesclii uiu le secretarY L J Whitney offered the city of Splnle a majority of the stock s-tock amountng to 44 34 par value for about 20 per cent of It actual cost to holders or SLtSI the city to the present VS acquire the remainder of the stock at Co pr cent of its par value The propo C was referred to the committee on Ito toI with instructions to report 1mmcdlhh In order that work could he beitun at once If the proposlUon was ac belun The chances arc that the db trill tlo the MaII1ton compan offer antI from their works decloan adequate reservoir system |