Show j = I PAYMENT FOB PAVING i t Street Improvement Company l Com-pany Petitions Council i l J i DONT LIKE THE DEMURRAGE I Taxpayers Insist That Forfeit I Should Bo Enforced l 1 1 Now Contract With Utah Light f Power Company Is Approved ° ty V by the Council I i I t Thp City Councllmoit did a fnlrly good HtnlntH work lust I night They didnt M cut any salarlea locaus they didnt read the relied ordinances but the r mcinbrrn met in committee of the whole I In vppnrntc conunlttcos and In regular < I Council session Tho rest of the mlnutop covering the nlshtH when the Council Kiit IH H board oC canvassers Were read and approved without comment com-ment The minutes rend last night covered the evenings of November llth 12th ICth nnd loth on which dntoH the lection returns of Districts 27 to 52 In l elusive wore uinvafied and approved The minutes for the nights on which the IeluniH for the districts tip to No 27 were canvas ed were approved Tuesday night or night before last PAVING COMJJANY PETITIONS The Council resolved Itself into committee com-mittee or the whole and with A J Davis in the thilr considered Ihu petition of the City Street Improvement company giving its llnal estimate for Ilm pavlnj of South Temple street and oKkiuir that the SITiiO demurrage he not deducted The petition sot out that the company wan not responsible for tho ninetylive days delay in the work and placed its dual estimate at inl27l > 2 which Includes the above 1750 Accompanying Ac-companying the petition was a L protest to the Board oC Public Vorlts from the Zions Savings JJani and Trust company com-pany signed by George M Cannon cashier which slated that as taxpayers tax-payers they objected to modification being made In the penalty imposed holding that they were rvciulrud to pay their part of the assessed tax more than twelve months before they received re-ceived any benefit from the paving They say they were inconvenienced by the delay and out of th use of their money for the year riming whlch the paving was clone The protest ends In his connection we feel that we are entitled to a refund of part of the tax assessed and request that your honorable honor-able board take ouch action as will do justice In the matter CAUSES OF DELAY Attorney E M Allison Jr appeared In behalf of the City Street Improvement Improve-ment company and hated to tho Council Coun-cil that a number of causes had contributed con-tributed to the delay These causes he Bald were beyond the control of the paving company Part of the delay was caused by the Consolidated Railway and Power company who could not get steel for its tracks and the rest was caused by the Inability of he paving company to secure gravel cement and stone The committee of tho tlllole reported I that the whole matter be referred back to the jJ cJU Ill of Public Works for report I re-port and Ihat W C Stone the local agent of the company be permitted to appear before the board This report was later adopted by the Council LIGHT CONTRACT CLOSED The committee of the whole also rc ported that the contract for lighting between the city and the Utah Light and Power company 1 11 > e extended for two years from March 1 1901 Tills report re-port wus adopted unanimously I by the City Council When the Council adjourned ad-journed It wan until next Monday afternoon after-noon at 2 oclock at which time the reading of the revised ordinances will again he taken up A large < number of matters were disposed dis-posed of by the several committee the more Important of which were ae follows fol-lows Petition of the Utah Light and Power company nuking for an extension exten-sion of the life of Us franchise from twentylive to llfty years wan acted upon favorably by lie LIUVK committee commit-tee The company agrees to put all wires In the paved district tinder ground in the next ten years This committee also recommended the adoption of the resolution abolishing the oliice of clerk of the Hoard of Public Pub-lic Works FIUK STATION IMPROVEMENTS The Finance Pltc and Police and Prison committees recommended that improvements of lire station Xo 1 be made and bids for the work advertised Tor The petition of Health Commissioner Commis-sioner Stewart asking that money be appropriated for the lltting up of the emergency hospital was not acted upon by the Finance committee tlulr Judgment Judg-ment being that the matter could wait Until after the new administration had taken ofllce |