Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-04-11 | Page 14 | Failure to Fight Suit Nets [Illegible]

FAILURE TO FI61T f SUIT ITS Kp City Commission Will NK" Contest Action to EnjoiijlP Improvements. 'JU RICHER BY BIG Sill j Korns Wants Money GiVi '111 to Water Department;! N Motion Is Lost. ij '- J,S. By failing to fight, the suit, filcdj the district court Tuesday to restri I tho city from lottinjj contracts orji . sessiur property for mrb and ut jjpS improvements in extension No. 20, Si Lake will be richer by $52,000. Kea'l intr this fact, the city eonuiiHsion pf! tically agreed yesterday morning to! . torposo no objection to tho issuance? mqT the injunction. i. The improvement, work was nutu ' j izcd last January. - It calls for .1 If curbing and guttering of all strd within tho district bounded on j' south by tho south side of Third avoa on the north by the north sule (Oh, Ninth avenue, on the west by Can road, and on tho cast by "n at ., Fifty property owners in that disti W have banded together to light the j provemont on the ground that tho a v.' would be so pxccssivp as lo bo unj J and unlawful, Tho city's share ofM work would bo $32,000." Tf iho impro flV( incut ia canceled that much moneyJJ turns to tho citv treasury and will; ' available for other improvements, Korns Makes Motion. j' No sooner had tho commission Hll agreed that it would lie a line thinjjj ifo get that much money back in tho pi r , lie funds again than Connnissid: Korns introduced a roso'tion call; for the appropriation of the $52,1 tba for water improvements. This provo! j.i a. lively debute and the resolution V lost bv a tic vole. Commissioner Key 5 voting with Korns and Commission JJiti Lawrence and Morris opposing. " j,. Commissioner Morris prosified in(' abseiico of tho mayor. lie naid he:, lieved the commission should wail k P while and see what Iho court mighti tU about the matter before spending ! ( monev in somo other direction. & "The commission has not been m; ' habit of waiting to appropriate moi Ut recklessly for other purposes' ' ,ia claimed Korns. " On the recommendation of C.'i' " ! Barrett, superintendent of waterwoq fcf-f'ijOO fcf-f'ijOO additional was appropriated .1 the building of the new stoel llumoi the Salt Lake and Jordan canal at J 'Creek because of the extra cxpe ttl1 met with in fluming the water acroo tv. bit of shifting ground, permeated la. springs. c Bond Is Approved. jj fci The $J 0.000 bond given by Jali s Stewart & Co. to insure tho city ff lie' liability arising from the hauling; il material for tho capitol building o"i f ' the tracks of tho Utah Light & ft way company, was approved by tho c'( f mission. j. The Oregon Short Lino railroad granted a franchise to construct a sj m track on Fourth West streot, bctwi 'li Eighth and Xinth North btroets. G tkc IL K. Burton, who has served asj vf sistant water engineer for the q since the elevation of Sylvester Cani to the office of city engineer, V , formal! v appointed to the position 1 motion of Commissioner liichard f k Morris. j