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Show PROTEST AGIST CHANGE LIMITS Gravel Company Wants Prop erlyto Remain Outside of the Cily. OFFER IS MADE ON LAND Commissioners Arc Willing to Pay B. R. Harris $800 for 120 Acres. If the city persists in the proposed chango of its northern limits, property now owned b- tho Valley View Sand & Gravel company on tho northern hilla will becoiuo city property, according to tho proLcst niado to tho commission yosl.cm.-iy morning by Oscar "W. Movie, representing tho compairy. Itcccntlj tho post, marking the limits of the city on tho mountain, sido was removed in some unaccouutablo way and the limit mark becamo uncoTtain. Tho cily engineer has proposed to run a new lino on a survey that cuts into the holdings of tho gravel company, it is said. After considerable discussion t lie matter was referred to tho city engineer, en-gineer, -with inslrudioim to dolcrmiiic tho old limit, line if possible. 1.5y way of striking a bargain, tho commission yesterday decided to offer H. K. Harris $800 for 120 acres of land in Parley 's canyon. Mr. Harris recently recent-ly otfored' to soil for $.1000. Tho land lies between tracts owned by the city and is said fo bo desirable lo tho city in order io increase its control of the Parley's creek water supply. Seymour .1-3. Young's offer to o. chango forty acres of land, in section 17, township I south, ran go 2 oast, for fifteen or twenty acres in tho old Wintlr mill farm in Parley's canyon, was filod without remarks, which amounts lo a refusal. Tho land offered by Mr. Young is said to be a bit of mountainside mountain-side of no worth fo tbo city. Dr. S, Tf. (,'lawson appeared before tho commission with a request that tho c.it- pay part of tho expenso incident to a caso of smallpox at 1152 B street. Dr. Clawson said that tho woman, in whose house tho smallpox exists, depends de-pends for her living on lodgers and that to. quarantino tho place -without making sonic provision for tbo uni'or-tunato uni'or-tunato landlady would, not o just. Tho matter was referred to tho commissioner commission-er on public safety. On recommendation of Commissioner George D. Tvoysor, tho city will not pay the lprancis Armstrong estato $8000 for si picco of property between Canyon road and "North Stato Etreet along City crook. Tho property -was offered to tho city at lhat price so that a right of way could, be established. Commissioner" Commis-sioner" Kcysor reported that part of tho tract already belongs to tho cit' and that a right "of "way had. existod for tweuty-five years. |