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Show CUT COUNCIL. I W. Paving of Commercial , Street Discussed. SEWER ORDINANCE i'ASSKU. l'rolaujed Ileliate Alioat Magolillilc IUrrmtnt. QUARTERLY REPORT OT THE CITY AUOITOn. I'rnV'Mi ..'. to '2r 5aluni tiii and on ri!. I The members of tlj City Council : were late In taking their seats lost evening, and Uie attendance was light, only nine members being present at roll ca!L One of these wss Mr. Sun'tnlt Who Iiml fol been present for several sessions, having been cast. .rs. Coombs, Woolley, llamp-toa llamp-toa and othenj repreeenteit tliat canal crowings In the vicinity of Ninth South and Eighth East and Ijjke street s were in bad couditloli, e.uJ aske to have them imruved nud llumw ut in. iteferrvd to the CSmmlttee on streL. Kkhards Brothers askdl toliave a street pjHrinl through block to, plaLA. '1 hey owned nearly all the lam! tliat wuuld l required by the new street, and would ay uie cost of condemning the leuiatuder. Referred Re-ferred to the committee on streets. A number of relltsass fdr leae to pi-building material in the street were granteil. (!. M. Forties asked t lie permitted permit-ted to use llio w-iter from certain spring!) belonging to the city, situated situ-ated on sections US and , T. I N. B. 1 li Iteferrvd to II1" rpnUPltt! "u irrigator.. C. It. St. Oeorge and others repre-sentiil repre-sentiil that the Jordan and Salt Lake canal was in bidjL-on lition near their profit ty, and asked to have it cleared out. Referred to the canal committee. O. VV. Reed .t.ked to have the fences removed from J street, and made to conform to the lines of the street. Referred V the committee on sheets. The petition of a Mr. Harris and others fur an extension of water mains was referred to tiie committee en water worki. il. A. M, rroisetii cud other asked to Iiaveacertaliiditehiicsir the J oruan cleaned out. Referred to the j ,i.mmittee on lnlgatiou. i'ad.loe-k V Stevens represented ' f":at they were payiug tho city for the use of certain sand placers, and i that Uieouncil had lately given !-rmission to other (mrtlea to use other sand placers free til charge. I much to their damage. Tiie pe- titiout'r asked to leau all tin- sand ! plivrs lielonging to tuo city. Re-I Re-I ferred to the committee on puidic yrouuus. A. M. CJrai.t aud ('. Ii Stanton, i in behalf of t:ic call firemen, asked Uie council to fy for certain tiiuip-, iiui-.b. used by them. Referred to j Uie committee on tire department. C- F. ISeclterailrtnittcd a proiio-sitlun proiio-sitlun t j sit up street signs at Sii ' ceuU i-acli fr single signs. Or he; would furnish di.nble signs on justs ! feet long auH Jx I Indies in s-a., 2i Ki-t in the ground, at $!.2-j. Re-frrrod Re-frrrod to the i-onimiUce on streets. Theciiy attorney reirteil a bill for a new sewer oriinaure. to uin-r-xede the present one on the subject, iiid ..-ll tbe table to come up in iU order. Tiie cily engineer reporteii in favor fa-vor t the adojitiun cf the plat of Sherwood Font-t addiUon to High-land High-land I "ark. Aiiopud. Tiie expert vfU-e cwjiiuI--!o!1 ub' inilte.1 a rrt of tne analysis, by i'rof. J. T. Kinssbury, of the waters of a numlier of welts near Liberty ark. Filed. City Auditor Uuag submittl the following rert for Uie quarter ending end-ing June 3 B-lwe ib trrcary Apnl 1 ttiVKl 2 i:wiirudiirtai;tufter. M.u; xt T.iad Jje.tM II I:ljt.rciacUdanaarB'ler.... fll.7(4 bum is IrrasBiT Jalr I... :n;i ll In detail Uie accounts are ai follows: fol-lows: RECEIPT. Sfirwiic liJTs y Wiucriu. n,M . SidexmlM s.ulT .' License, bqr .............. H3M !areae, MMceUaBejat... ;rst n Wstrrratf s.7tt Kia a.n; u JoMaB Caaal...... ................ !.? Mlery v foil lu ,lli n Kct. -..j . Ilog UX Harm tpnacs.......... 3)u WaluBKioB Msro.... ....... It, as ctcc (sale of Hue.......... 3; Tasal Uv 11 li.lefvlB U1b1............ Svs Ltherlr Park rtree boM:. s o SprtBkllBK ux 719 V LitKiBeena; iIyBryenl. .... 7K Si l tritM- (n naek) . . ZJtl m Ualerflwlvr............ fi Lu Tool M.W7 X) oi.mu!E:ics-Ts. 5K1BJI t !,! I SojierTisvr ........................ I9 10 JardiB auMi & of lire drpaiuseni class WalerwutU ll.Ttft I" utani 11 lacs n 'trrl lidtUBi: tJBIU Cmeler7 X.1S& U Wairnuitcr s.s.r: SidUIe: .". 1M M taunicenB; departBK&l.......... 7A a ricnixr 1.11s fu I'nv bbiI i-iwntr baibliBjr. i.r 11 Ltjcii e;ii- ii&cIadiBe allur BerVMlATv lICK Ohim-iI cefviec 917 to I'.ilhx lnst t &Ktew3lk. e,tai 7 MAT.h.I'. tuwl 117 7S ImaaUBCWBlrr rrt4taa weile) Ms-Ui Itwb erB4e...., s,ivi yi ItoBdiaai stnl4 a.sK?: -BBilnr excMti 1,331 12 KSKft water roaaHBer IV I'bihiM Hill retrrw. 49 M lianas Md dauxea 5JEX7 3 .Va-biDBtim sBare and wetjra- Bwtrt salafr ..-. 12 ss rttyreBWi l,l;2 s llaaranUBB aaf fayvteiaB'a sal- iy a ei lajy poaBd.... ........... 11 23 laceuteaBdadifcc cvll&r Ml bit ran X Wr SvriBg (rvpBtn). .......... 7s 20 Watrrraun wht;) ja a City Crrk easyoa ibbb4....... AH SiS IMU !IrelitUertr)". .... WIJVS Map' -alanr S2I.S9 f:-cunr ai Tmarer Gm.10 AaJitar. met 1-o)k JihIc-...... hjm I'mire Clerfc 2JXM WlelBwa(r W0) Kcrdr clerk MsaS A-M,ran'ICi4ie(!tnr'c,er&... laf7M JaBtlAraatf AMaac Jailer. rfa-Ki Oflh-eboy isuai Tola! !!U,7M Tiie city poundkecper submitted a quarterly rejiort which occasioned tomv discu'vion, as no one seemed to understand what it meant. It wag referred to the finauee committee commit-tee fr elucidation. The city scavenger subnilte.1 a re;wrt of the work done in his de-pirtnirfnt de-pirtnirfnt for the quarter, and akml mi appropriation of S5S.0ii to meit a deficiency. Tiie street supervisor suhiniUed a reirt, which showed an exixnJi-ture exixnJi-ture for the quarter of over $lo,H00 in his department. Hall suggested Oiat t!n-e quaittr-ly quaittr-ly reports sliould lie more explicit, aud should give tbe b-ilanre-i at the beginning and end of the quarter, the sources of revenue, etc. Tiie Mayor explninod that Uie Income In-come of most of the departments was from appropriations exclusively, exclusive-ly, and that the auditor and treasurer treas-urer kept areounta showing their I balances, etc. I A communication from W. H. I Ryan stated that there was so much I fishing ami gunning tn City Creek I Canyon, that the fishes, birds and squirrels would soon le cxterml-I cxterml-I nited unles their destruction were 1 cheeked. The matter was refernsl I to the committee on nmairirnl laws, tn frame an ordinance to 'cover the oae, whon iVm'Toki' re-1 re-1 markeil that private partus owned , laud In City Creek Canyon over which the Council had no control. I Tbe mayor replied that the com m'".e would tika thai fact into consideration. The committee on streets cub-milled cub-milled the following report: "Your cotmnitteo nn stroeU, to whom was referred tho pstltion of IL Y. Allen and fifty-two others, to havo an abandoned ditch on Fourth Wet and Sixth South street filled up.recom-racml up.recom-racml that tbo same be referred, as petitioners requat, to tbo board of noltn' , i. 4. . . On tho petition of Willinnt lioberU anil forty others, also on tho ptt'lMyi "f Fts'ierBrexiag Company and tlnf-leeii tlnf-leeii oLri, "-t a e'dowalU ba laid nn Tlilrd South Street .rtaa tilth io Kigtith West streets and to fill nr. 3 litch on tbe south side of Third South Streot.lK-tween Sixth and Seventh West request that IUo iba Grande Western Railway Company ha notified to construct con-struct a sidewalk from Fifth West Stieet to Uie west sido of Sixth West .Street, and that the street supervisor fill up the ditch as asked for. and put the sidewalk Ins passable rendition. ! On tbe pt!t!on o' the Utah Central Hallway Company fnribJ Sxtc'isioii.of sixty divs from tho lt of Auguat, I IMW, in which to lay its road led and ! track on Fourth es: Street, we rcc-! rcc-! oiiunend Ibat the prayer of petitioners bo granted. On the jietitlon cf It. Williams, asking ask-ing to bare too waibout filled up opposite op-posite bis premises on Twelfth lUst nnd South Tcmplo street, your eom-miUee eom-miUee is of the oplnlori, after a per-smwl per-smwl ainjon:lon that it has been too long negteiUO. Ivfc eeip'ei.! thf t ihe streci supervisor be intruetAl Io fit! up the washout and put in a Hume or Iniugri as is necossary to mike this spot safe for eluc!es ami iIetrlaus. M. K. r.UMjs, Loci- Coiix, U 1- Hai-u A. J. 1'iainLinos." The cily engineer reported on the projioseil colistructkm of o spu r track on South Temple Street, by the Itio tJrande WtMero, leading to tho gas works, as follows: "lit 'ew 01 tbo fact (bat Ihe tail-road tail-road tracks now laid in this locality already occupy morcnf tbo stivet than Is eonsitent with public in!cret. and their alteration has therefore been authorized by this Council, I recommend recom-mend that t tie prayer of tho etltlon-prs etltlon-prs lie granted, o'dy on condition thai the work be made truioiary ami subject to such changes as may bo determined iqin as necessary by your comiiiitttHj apimn'.ed for that puriwsc, ami thit tho pronojsd tracks shall not cross any pirtof th sidewalk except that abutting tho premises of the pe-tilioiier.'' i Auoineu. A report of city prisoners was submitted, and nil appnriatioti of $1023, to joy formeab., e.c, asked fur. Filed. riie'commllteu ou streets reporteii recommending that certain improvements im-provements bu made 011 South Temple Tem-ple Street. Adopted. On the report of the license committee, com-mittee, a numlier of retail liquor licenses were granteil. The board of public works tul-mfttcil tul-mfttcil the following- A communication in tb snaps of a petition lias been tiamled the li-sird of pukl!- works, sif-ie.! by a majority of tbo property hoblei s ou Commercial Commer-cial Streets-king that siagolttblc sjwi I-tieationslie I-tieationslie adofiteil and included in our aiherti-emcnt for biiLs on lint street, as tho e-tiniale. on such is-clti-eattons will eo-ne within the assessment assess-ment already made. In view of this fact wa respectfully rtqui-st your iKntorabte WHly to iu-strni-t this board by resolution or otlrwie to act as i(!tioned. and aiithorizo us to ineliide slagolilhie Kiei-ifiratioiiK ui our adiertiscineuls for bhtsouail work onlered.'' This sccmlngcly iiinocent communication commu-nication give rise to a oiscussion whirh occMplol about ha'f of the time of the Pinion of the council. The city attorney insisted that, to cliacge the kind of pavement to lie bid would Invalidate the previous limceedings of the i-macil relstive to the matter, and pi"e iiroiwrty owners own-ers mi C.ciiuien-ial Street an o;i?r-tunily o;i?r-tunily ti reaa-t, in the courts, the assessment. The city engineer held Ural tho council had advertised fura i'ortlaud cement jnvement,aml that the .vsies-ment .vsies-ment was to my fur tliat kind of a paveni-ni. Heexplaineiithat there were ullb rent kinds of i'ortlanil cement iaveiueni. as one in which gravel tunned the ImmIv; another cf which broken lime-tone, ami another of which bn'keti gmnlte foniH'd tiie Ixidy, tin natrlx of inch being I'oitlami ccimnt. In Ihe slagolitlilr avement Iiroken slag, instead of grave!, broken limtoiie or broken granite, formed the Ittdy. I'embroke insistttl that the slag-olilhlc slag-olilhlc pavi-r.ier.t wa- far better Ulan eitlierofthei'thiTs, and urgeil such action as might ! mi-essary to secure It. lie thought il ouiy necessary to advi rtise for it. under liilroceeIingsalreadyliad. Haifa dozen attei:ija. by the city attorney to convince him tliat such action night invalidate tlieassessnieut and compel the city instead of abutting property owners to pay for Uie jve-inent, jve-inent, seemiugiy had no ellect. Several other lueuilwrs took jart III the delnte, until at lengUi the matter was tabled subject to call. A revolution was adopted requiring requir-ing the city engineer to isli to oainpletion Uie Improvements on South Temple Street. Mmint Griltlu a-keil for;200i). STll) of it to apply on the isirs'lia"' of the sprinkling wagons. Craiitisl. A bill of SinT.SVi.for gas furuisheil the city, and am tl.cr of Jloist for ehs-trlc strirt lamp-, were all iwi-d: The fuliowing w.is submittisl: ft thr HtmroHf Mror tmt CL'f Cmai -Satt Lntr Cijr. '' ' Tiie undersigned reeclfu!ly asks your honorable body to grant him tho riiEht to lay pifes in all tho streets al.d alloys of tho City of Salt Iaike, for tho purpose of conveying natural gas ami oil and supplying th inhabitants of such city with said gas and uil for fueJ, tliuniinatingor any other eoui-mereial eoui-mereial piirpuMs for the (M'rioil of twenty-five years from tho granting of Mich fraiHlii-c, tho first ten 3-rars of which to Iki exi-lusive, iijku the following fol-lowing conditions: 1 He will pmqieet for natural gas nndoil InfaioriMe lonlltios In S.1I1 l-iko Cry ami iclnlty by sinking wells to sticli nn nxtcnt as will cin-ti tale a fi.r t"-t of the existence. ,f natural gas or nil in said citv or vicinity- 2 In ca.se of the securing of natu ral gas or oil or either in iying quantities, quanti-ties, bo w ill put in and operate a plain for lite supply of I be same fo the in-luibilauuof in-luibilauuof the xddcjty according tn the terms of said franchi-e said fran-ehbsi fran-ehbsi tn le forfeited in cm-o 1 Ttw prosjiert work is not com-menced com-menced within ninety daj-s from tho dateiif suelx fmurlu-o nnd completed within twn years from said date. , 2 'tiie failure to put In plant for supplying natural gas and nil within hlx month from ttie di-covery of such gas ami oil iu laying quantities. Jons Joiix-ox. lVmbroke introduced a resolution resolu-tion instructing the city scavenger to remove or burn a quantity of garbage lying en the bank of City Creek, in the canyon. Adopted. The "idewak pay roll, calling for $l.V.5d was submitted. Auderson moved thai 2d0) fiet of ho-e at !M cents, be )urclias-J. Carried. Car-ried. The city attorney made a somewhat some-what lengthy exianation of the nature ami elltvt of the bill for a new sewer ordinance, after which tiie Mayur remarked that the bill might be read by its title and passed. The recorder thureurun read the title of the bill aud recorded the vote, which was a unanimous aftirniativc, and the bill wa) declared de-clared pvfrcj. Fanons Inquired if the Council had ordered Commercial Strver to be paved. Recorder Hyaius replied in the negative. Fan-ens insisteil that the onler had Iieen made, Iwt U10 recorder In-sifted In-sifted to the contrary. Then Parsons, to make the matter certain, moved Uiat Commercial Street Is; iived wiUi asphalt, and that bids I c advertised for. Pembroke moved to amend so as to provide that Utah asphalt only should be Ufed. ThLs leil to a delate in which Pembroke, Parsons, the city engineer nnd others took iirt. Pembroke'. amendment was lost,' and Parsous' motion was carried. Parsons moved tht prorty owners on Commercial Street be notified, as required by ordinance, 1 to put in sewer. gas and water pipes, 1 preparatory to laying Ihe pavement. , t'arrlul. I The following appropriations weie made: Profeiaor Kiabnry TJ ro Board o'. Halm ass go reediDrciiyprUoners..... ....... laSIO) , MiiUnqa !. to I s.L.p.ii7co i&on Ga CO 1T7 Ti Sldeiralx Drpirlmcnl J M Ailjoumeil for one week. |