Show CITY COUNCil DECIDES TO 10 RECOMMEND CONTRACT I fOR WElS ACH 9 The City Council sitting as a committee com com- committee of the whole last night agreed to recommend to the Council meeting Monday Mon Mon- o day night the entering into a a. contract with the Lighting company for 50 gas lights to displace many of the electric lights now in the residence districts i If within thirty days dars it was agreed the li lights should prove prove satisfactory the city will contract for The li lights that it is is proposed t to install will displace of the present electric lights and it is is believed will prove more satisfactory in the lighting of residence districts Last ni night h the Wesbach people further further fur fur- ther agreed to paint their light ight posts once a year and also to keep the street signs in a legible condition The change in the lighting system m means that it will win cost Salt Lake City something like a year more than at present to cover a larger area than now and furnish nearly neady three times as many lights as at present The Utah Li Light ht and Railway endeavored ored to block the contract when John Montgomery commercial agent Jent for tho the company took the tho floor He ile declared that the company held that Salt Lake City is still under contract with it to furnish the li lights that it is proposed I to remove He declared th that t the contract contract con con- tract does not expire until 1909 When the meeting was called caned Recorder Re Re- Recorder corder Moreton read a communication from the Utah Light and Railway company company com- com pany in which it proposed to furnish an additional street li lighting system of in incandescent incandescent in- in candescent lights at 28 a light a year It also opposed l the tho proposal of the gas light company II H B B. Lewis Levis representing the tIle Wels Wels- bach company declared that the light he would give would be a sixty candle power power light and this would be so stated in the contract He declared that the electric light company made an offer to furnish a li light ht of 2000 power candle for each H light ht This was the subject of an attack by Councilman Martin who declared that the electric li lights were seldom more than candle He declared that fifty miners miners' candles could make mako more light Councilman Tuddenham su suggested that the city contract for gas lamps lamps' and should they prove satisfactory contract contract con con con- tract for the rema remaining nin Th This s met with the approval of all the The whole matter will come up before before be- be fore the City Council Monday night |