Show TA BOND BIOS OFF AGAIN r Date of Issue Changed from Sept 1st to Oct 1st lI NECESSITATES NEW BIDS cz OMeara Submitted Offer of Par and > 2600 Premium on September Basis Ba-sis and Afterward Withdrew It Bollinss Bid Also Knocked Out I r Mayor Wants Enlarged Water Pipe Laid in City Creek Canyon Water T I Motor Rates Fixed Offers of More Parleys Canyon Land Received k In aroundabout way the City Coun cll last evening rejected all bids received re-ceived for the 5250000 Issue of municipal munici-pal water improvement bonds and leCt It open for new bids to be considered Il A bill for an ordinance prescribing the 1v form of bond was Introduced by Councilman J Coun-cilman Robertson In which It was provided pro-vided that the bonds be dated September lit Septem-ber 1st payable twenty years thereafter there-after in lawful money bearing interest L at the rate of 4 per cent and redeemable redeema-ble at the option of the city In ten years On motion of C R Howe the ordinance was amended providing that the bonds I bear date of October IsU The amendment amend-ment was adopted and the ordinance i passed in that form The bid of Rollins I a Sons of par 2165 premium and accrued i ac-crued Interest which had been accepted by the Mayor and the Finance committee commit-tee subject to the approval of the 1 I Council was for bonds dated September 1 i Septem-ber 1st and the change In the date had I the effect of rejecting that bid A bid was received last evening from 4 OMeara Co as agents for E D Shepard Co of New York offering 2GOO premium and accrued Interest from September 1st the bidders to pay r for the engravjng The change in the date knocked out this bid too andO and-O enra withdrew it with the intention I of submitting a new bid The slate Is now clear and afresh crop of bids are in order NOT LOOKED ON WITH FAVOR t L I The Mayor sent In a communication calling attention to the fact that the I proposed enlargement of the water mains from City creek decided upon last April had not been carried out and recommending that the Council Instruct In-struct the Board of Public Works to advertise again for bids for laying the new main so that It cart be done this season and brought Into use next year r Canning and Fernstrnm opposed spending spend-ing 50000 or 60000 for laying larger water mains In City creek when the I present pipe In large enough to carry nil tho water coming from that source during the summer months when water is scarce The money they thought could be better spent In Increasing the supply of water and the city Engin crt cr-t lnks so too The communication was referred to the Committee on WaterWorks 1 Water-works WATER METER RATES FIXED The ordinance fixing the rates for water by meters which has been pentl ing for months was taken up and rpassed > The < Iatos arclOc j > er 1000 gallons l 1 I gal-lons for an aVerage dally cdnsumptlbn of 1000 gallons or less with a reduction L of Ulc for each additional 1000 gallons dally consumption until a minimum rate of 3c per 1000 gallons Is reached for an average daily consumption of 50000 gallons or over OFFER OF PARLEYS LANDS 33 A M Frolseth offered the city 400 acres of hind with water rights in Parleys Par-leys canyon for 5SiiO The properly Is owned by Jens Jensen Carl E Lunds kOg and Swan Llndholm the first named 80 acres and the other iwo 160 ii acres each For Jensens S1C50 is asked I for Lundflkogs 2000 and for Llnd I holma S2JOO ii Referred the Mayor and Committee V on Finance n PAYROLLS APPROVED Iv The payrolls the Waterworks and 11 City Engineers departments for two U weeks ending August 31st which were f held up on account of the motel Inspector ii Inspec-tor In the former being put down at a salary of 275 a day and the clerk In the latter at 33 a month which were considered excessive were approved but It was ordered on motion of Robertson Rob-ertson that in future thc water meter inspectors remuneration be not over 2 a day and that of the Engineers clerk not over 375 a month i Department payrolls for the two IL weeks ending September 18th amount ing to 781930 were approved An appropriation of 52S15GG was made to the Green Reeve company the I amount agreed upon as a compromise I of the balance due that company for I laying water mains to All Hallows col 1 lege It was ordered that tho canal on Eighth West street from the Intersection U Intersec-tion of First North thence north to Ninth North to the Hot Springs Jake total distance of two and onehalf mlcs be cleaned out and deepened by I about twelve Inches at a cost not exceeding 1 ex-ceeding FOO p CITY TREASURER WANTS HELP 1 City Treasurer Morris asked authori 1 ty to employ an additional clerk In his office for the reason that the furnish ing of bills monthly and making collections I collec-tions for water under the new water r meter system entailed additional labor which the present force was unable to perform Referred to the Committee on Waterworks Water-works I George A Reid and thirtyfour others 1 asked that Fifth South street from Redwood road west to White lake be V opened and graveled where nccoasary and that Fifth South street be graveled from the Utah Nevada railroad tracks west to the surplus canal Re ferred to the Committee en Streets Marshall Royle < fc HempBtcad rep resented to the Council that large quantities quan-tities of gravel have been taken by the ojly from property belonging to Samuel H Aucrbach and the estate of Fred Is Auerbaolu decansed and that the property prop-erty has been damaged In consequence and asking that the practice be diFcon tlnued and that a fair amount be allowed al-lowed for the damage already done I Referred to Committee on Claims and 1 I Streets |