Show MfE WATER ffltHTS City Acquires Two More Holdings in Parleys CONSIDERATION IS 7000 City Council Passes Ordinance Employing Em-ploying Ten Additional Piremen for the New Station Liberty Parka Park-a New Source of Water Supply for the City Valley Railroad Company Accepts the Franchise Council Appropriates Ap-propriates 100 for Memorial Day Observance S The city by1 the Mayor and Finance committee of the City Council has concluded con-cluded the purchase of another block of land and water rights In Parleys canyon The new acquisitions are the farms with the accompanying water I I rights of W W Taylor anti Bines Dixon Dix-on each to receive 3500 for his prop i crty Taylors farm contains ninety two acres fifty of which la under cultivation culti-vation und Dlxous tract has eighty five acres sixty of which Is cultivated The City Council last night approved the deal and appropriated to the Mayors May-ors contingent fund J7000 to pay for the property TEN MOliJO FIREMEN The ordinance as recommended by the Committee on Fire Department in creaslng the number of men In the department de-partment from twentyeight to thirty eight was passed Tho additional un men are required for service In the new fire station at I and Third strees Buckle and Robertson favored muring the increase only eight men Chief De vine was present on an request oC thii members addressed the Council and convinced the majority that ten additional addi-tional men were absolutely necessary SOURCE OP SUPPLY Jones Jacob engineers and contractors con-tractors directed the attention of the Council to n source of Increased water i supply for the city which they said appeared ap-peared to have been overlooked The source referred to Is the wells at the southeast corn < jr of Liberty park The wells were sunk ten years ago and I Jones Jacob say the flow from them at presentls 3000000 gallons a day and capable of being largely increased They suggested that the wells be cleaned out and that pumps tanks etc be erected fordlstrlbutlpn They offered to supply the machinery for 2U325 and estimate that 1000000 gallons per day couk bo obtained from that source and arrangements for distribution made for J a total cost of 50000 Referred to Committee on Waterworks LOWER INSURANCE HATES Buckle Introduced a resolution providing pro-viding that the Insurance companies be notified when the new fire station Is opened so that the companies may know that the time has come for them to make tho promised reduction In pre mlums The resolution was passed although the members appeared to have little faith In its efficacy VALLEY FRANCHISE ACCEPTED Notification of the acceptance of the franchise granted to the Salt Lake Valley Val-ley Railway company by the Council was received from the company and filed John Cook represented to the Council that owing to the city taking water from the Salt Lake City canal by a Hume across his land a spring on the land Is being befouled by canal water from the Hume mingling with the water lot the spring to his damage In the sum of 1375 which he prayed the Council to allow him Referred to the Com mlttccs on Streets Irrigation and Claims FOR MEMORIAL DAY The sum of S100 was appropriated to the Mayors contingent fund for the G A R to aid In the observance of Memorial day The Council formally ratified the change of the line for the water main over the reservation leading to All Hallows college new building The change was ordered by the City Engineer Engi-neer concurred In by the Board of Public Works and accepted by the contractor con-tractor so that action on It by the Council was hardly necessary It shortens the distance by 700 feet and naves about 51400 In the expense City Attorney Stephens reporting on the petition of P II Hyde and A E Hyde to bo supplied with free water under an alleged old agreement with tie city advised that under the stale of facts submitted by the Land and Water Commissioner the petition should be denied Referred to the Com rnlttee on Waterworks A resolution Introduced by Tuddcn ham demanding that the Committee on Streets take steps to insure the residents resi-dents of the north bench the quantity of Irrigating water belonging to them was adoatcd On resolution offered by Fernatrom Ito Chief of Police was directed to enforce en-force the ordinance limiting the spcqd < it which trains shall run within the city limits to twelve miles an hour Fernstrom said that trains were often run at forty to fifty miles an hour within the city limits WATER RATES PAYABLE YEARLY Gemmcll offered a resolution abolishing abolish-ing the jacmlannual collection of water rates and providing that the rates be collected annually In advance It was adopted being backed by the Committee Com-mittee on Waterworks Canning opposed op-posed the resolution notwithstanding that ho had signed the report of the committee recommending its adoption It was resolved that In future persons per-sons petitioning for watermain or sewer extension shall be required to Incorporate In their communication a dfHcrlptlon of the property to be affected af-fected and that the descriptions shall be made a part of the committees report re-port The County Assessor notified tho Council that the total assessment of all property in Salt Lake City exclusive of railroads telegraph and telephone companies and the net proceeds oC mines for tho year 1500 was 31137825 Piled Committee on Finance Charles B Tltcomb asked for the refund re-fund of H2 rebate on the cost of connecting con-necting the Industrial home with the wwcrs J S Fordyco sent In a protest pro-test against the money being paid Tit comb claiming that by arrangement with Tltcomb It was to go to him For dyce Committee on Sewers the Council S S Howard petitioned to allow him to uso for pasturage certain cer-tain land belonging to the city near the Union stockyards Committee on Public Grounds |