Show BONDi ElECTION JUt Y 161 Council Adopts Committee f Recommendation J TO BE LAWFUL L MONEY BONDS J I Bate Interest Not t to Exceed 4 PerCent t Per-Cent and Bonds to Run for Twenty Years the City However Having j the Bight to Redeem in Ten Years if j it so Desires Board of sitcSooC1d o Public Works Overruled on Awarding j of Water Meter Contract Fire A Vir6 CII ract ile Alarm J1 Wire Purchase J P 1 J t U tTi The OilyCouncil i las ovening adopted e the recommendation of the Mayor and 1 tho Committee on Finance and Waterworks Water-works to submit to a vote of the citizens i zens C proposlllon to Issue 200000 waterworks I wa-terworks Improvement bonds and fixed tjie date of the election for July IGth The resolution diawn by the City Attorney At-torney by direction of the Finance committee and which was adopted wa3 as follows Whcr iu > > Thqro Is an Immediate lf It < necessity lao sity for making certain Improvements In 1 the water system t bSrlt m > f Hke City for 4 tho purpoyu of Ineicnslhtf Iho supply o 1 H water for said city oml for the better dhtilbutlon thereof njtl I 3ms r Whpiwm There nro not at present uf I Li k ritlcnl funilH In tho city treasury to da fray the cxpenscn of making mild pro xi posed Improvements and II appearing necessary that nn fowio I of Uomlit be mado I 1 In ralsa fund thornfor nHlO 1 I I Now Therefore In pursuance of nec tloiih S3 310 of th IJr Revived 1 Statutes 4 o Utah It Is ordered that a special elec tion liy hold In thin city on tno ICth day tio 11th of July A D 1000 for thu purpose of rIt submltllng lo such quullilrd electors as < ltlJ CICclorK 111 shall Iwo paid a property lax In thK city In tho year J8S9 the question of Incurring In-curring a bonded indebtedness In the sum of I250LCO for tho purpose oC defraying thu Pc p expenses of Improving the water system and Inorcaslng tho water supply of Salt atr sUJI Lake City Said bonds to bear Interest at tho rate r ol not to exceed 4 per cent per annum w payable mlnnnunllyk both principal and r Interest In bo payable In lawful money of ztd the United Sfciles to run twenty years twenty ill with the opllon of paying Ihe same at tho yJ ond of ten yearn ana to bo of such convenient con-venient denominations for jmle as may U II hereafter bn determined by the City Council before the lesuance thereof Said IIRID olectlon lo bo held In accordance with r iho general olecllon lavs of the State of Utah and the City Recorder Is I hereby oP j ordered to give notice oC wild special election by publication In some newspaper for four successive wcfks prior to Iho i late of said election FERNSTROM OPPOSED IT ri Fernslrom voted agaJUst the resolution k 1 resolu-tion claiming that It would be better t3 to Increase the tax levy l say 3 mills this year and 2 mills next year to pay tflrA for tho present Improvements and to ii w submit a bonding proposition when the more extensive Improvements at Utah Jake and Big Cottonwood arcS arc-S S to be done He said the present bonding bond-ing proposition would be defeated 5 The resolution was adopted without i debate Fcrnatrom alone voting no Cote Cot-e trell Gemmcll Hartcnsteln Hewlett Howe C R Reid Robertson Thomas u Tuddenham Whittemore and Buckler Buckle-r aye Beatty Canning and Edgar Howe absent The Committee on Elections II was Instructed to make the necessary arrangements for holding the elcct1on 0 1 METER A Tt DISAPPROVED Jf The action of the Bpard of Public 7LL Works In letting l the contract for supplying 8Q sup-plying 407 water meters to Tpnes i Jacobs for tho Worthlngton meter wan 95 turned down Gemmell said the WorthIngton If Worth-Ington meters were the most expensive II but not a bit better than plant of 11 1 others As good meters could be got for 25CO Icaa and he didnt see why I that amount of money should be spent cizi uselessly l He I moved that the board be Instructed to let the contract as follows p fol-lows and the motion prevailed jtc Tones Jacobsfor four olnch and lt u l thirteen 2Inch Worthlnglon meters tIa1t f That the order for the IInch iinch i2it and oInch meters be divided equally luJ between the Neptune Meter company r and the Plttsburg Meter company that ns in case the bidders for the Worlhing th 35 ton meters refuse to sell the seventeen I a large nelers at the prices named in I Ijt 1a their bid then the order for the large J meters shall bo divided as equally between 10 be-tween the Neptune Meter company and the PIttsburg Meter company at prices L named In their bids Jones Jacobss r bid for the 107 Worthlngtons was 5063 25 and the bids of the Neptune 4 Meter company and the Pltlsburg Meter 4 Me-ter company were each 531250 I 1 FIRE ALARM WIRE I The Board of Public Works reported I I r that it had let I the contract for furnishing furnish-ing fourteen miles of fire alarm wire to the American Steel company at 1950 MKM per 100 pounds f ob Chicago or le a I i S2213 per 100 pounds f 0 b Salt Lake I ttTJq I I The wire Is designated as Nu 12 tt r11 double braided weather proof copper er ihc weighing about 153 pounds to the QIl mile Referred to the Committee on 1U I Fire Department t |