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Show CITY COUNCIL I APPROVES SALE DRYFORK LAND An agreement was signed by the city council Wednesday night granting the Kennecott Copper corporation easement for the construction con-struction of a railroad in the mouth of Dry Fork canyon and selling certain property owned by the city to permit erection, maintenance and operation of a railroad. $1000 was paid the city for the property involved and $125 for the easement for the railroad. rail-road. Designated as the Annie F. Mine Lode Mining claim, U. S. Survey No. 4795, situate in the West Mountain Mining district, the property is used at present as a dumping ground by the city and county. The corporation agreed to construct con-struct at its own cost a roadway over and across the property now owned by the corporation to permit per-mit use by the city and county of the dumping area. An underpass 12 feet wide and 13 feet high, beneath the railroad at the point where the railroad crosses the roadway, which is to be maintained by the corporation at its own expense, is to be constructed con-structed for use of the city and county and to be under their joint control. The agreement requires the county to restrict use of the roadway road-way for transportation and disposal dis-posal of garbage and other waste materials, and that its use by the city shall be restricted to the same use, as a means of reaching the cemetery situated in Dry Fork and for the protection, control and maintenance of the city's water system. The roadway will not become a public highway. The corporation corpora-tion reserves the right to use the i ....... u I-.,. ,ioirt in roadway, which is to be accepted by the city m lieu of the roadway formerly used. Since the construction of the railroad, and cuts, fills and embankments em-bankments neissary lor the railroad, rail-road, will make it necessary to move portions of the city pipe line from Dry Fork, the corporation corpora-tion agreed to make changes m location of the pipe. A 48-,nch concrete culvert will be laid beneath be-neath the fill and the city pipe line placed inside. |