Show 1 reuses 10 4 1111 16 M P C lit pan rd the city council held its regu regular meeting at the court house last wednesday evening ahe roll call showed mayor colton and councilmen carter durton burton bates and howards city attorney demoisy DeMol sy marshal rich and water superintendent hatch present the following claims as presented by the recorder were granted edith R lawrence report forms for recorder 1 26 robt 11 wallis special stelio stenographic services 2 00 vernal express pub co sup plies piles and adNer advertising 28 45 ed oakes one halt day labor 92 2 GO CO byron eaton labor with team 3 45 jos bateman labor 2 60 pack allan coal co coal for library 23 25 uintah telephone co telephone service 3 00 salt lake stamp co dog tags 3 06 woodard curry furn co supplies 7 00 phillip bird labor 7 00 bub jarrel labor 5 00 wm will moore labor in the matter of the claim of the D C D unbar dunbar bill for or pipe the recorder was instructed to look over the flies files of the former recorder and procure the bill of lading ar invoice and see tor for what material the bill was presented the council at the last session after hearing a report from councilman ashton decided to lay the bill on the table inasmuch as it was said that it had been paid once engineer Engine ec nile hughel was present and made a statement why he refused to approve of the additional claim of filed by the heuser packard construction co cc lie ile explained that he and the contractors had bad gone over all the work and that he had been very liberal in granting concessions to them after they had gone over all the items and mr air hughel had made a final approval the contractors inserted an extra which mr hughel refused to allow the r claim was based on extra excavation ca that was done said mr air hughel but in making out the bill an average depth estimate was made and the charges were made accordingly this plan he said had met with the approval of the contractors at the time the council acting upon mr hughees Hug hels recommendation refused to allow the additional claim mayor colton brought up tle the matter of sounding fire alarms lie he wanted to know the opinion of the council as to whether or not alarms should be sounded for fires which occurred outside of the city limits councilman bates said that in his opinion the alarm should be continued to be sounded whether the fire was in or out of town the mayor said he see why the cart 1 should be hauled out to where here there was no fire plug councilman was of the same opinion as ag the mayor but saw no reason why there should be any distinction made so far as the alarm was concerned but that instructions should be given that the cart should only be taken where there was water facilities cili cil ties ittes upon the advice of the city attorney the chief of the fire department was instructed not to allow allon the cart to be taken out only where there were fire plugs councilman reported that he had bad ordered feet of fire hose bose at the price of 1 20 per toot tool councilman burton reported that he had bad a deal pending whereby a sale was to be made of the old sprinkling wagon councilman carter of the streets and bridges committee recommended that the bridge south of tile the red planer be made full size in its present condition it was dangerous ile he also recommended that the bridges from the coupe corner on fourth W st south be repaired and new pipes be put in the crossings and the crossing graded further recommendations were that curb and guttering be installed from the co op corner west to the old black property thus eliminating stagnant pools which form at present also that each crossing be leveled and graded on this street the street in front of the blacksmith shop south of the acorn mere co was also recommended to lie be filled in and graded to the level of the adjoining I 1 treats the above abone recommends 1 were put in a motion and approved ly by the council councilman carter reported the finding of boulders strewn on sev eral streets also that some of the water gates which led up to the curb I 1 boxes bodei were in need of repair Waier master match hatch explained that the reason tor for the delay in repair ing these boxes wat wa due to the of parts 1 llie I he of win will winward tc grade streets at the rate of 20 a was accepted and auth authorize oriza lion vs as made alade tor lor the work to be done mayor colton reported that to he had heard from several people com that there was danger of the intake being washed away where chere the llie water which i applies the city enters the pipes nita nile said there was some danger but to eliminate it it would be nece essary to either build a cement foundation oi 01 alit raft tile the canal up to the point ol oi entrance no action was taken b ba the council in liis itis matter A matter which had been pending for some time concerning tile the changing of the point of diversion in ili the canal which low furnishes furnisher the city s water ater supply was thoroughly und and action taken nile hughel was authorlee author led ed to meet with the air veir committees of the various canal companies in order than an all adjustment might be made john der contractor was as present en t in the interest of having granted his hia permit to construct the hotel building on 01 motion the lie permit was granted an appropriation of was wall allowed to nile on oil the sum owing him for the work performed in ili the construction of the water works system tile balance was to dep ua paid when the report of councilman ashton was mas handed in late lafe pletcher fletcher was present in the interest of residents in his vicinity in glines ward who desired to have city water furnished them af after ter debate it was decided to let these residents have the service providing they were witting to buy the pipe and pay regular awater lee fee mr aira ailetcher etcher ri said lie he would notify the council Lil after consulting with those interested nm m cook probation officer was present in ili behalf of having his salary increased from 5 to 10 a month the ille council upon motion mollon of councilman carter approved the increase V kw m powell offered to purchase sunie some lengths of 10 inch pipe at 10 a d length ille sale was ordered to be made rhe petition of goo geo merkley praying that a road be made on his property was refused refuse it was said eald that the city had ample room on the of cf its pipe line and the construction st of a roadway would be a like lebs expenditure city attorney demois De Alois reported ills his lecent iii inspection lection of the stock mens club lie said lie he found as far as he could determine that there was no gambling conducted and that the games gaines were medely conducted 0 on a loser pay the game proposition Ho however weNer mr air De demoisy Aloisy said that he lad had heard but had tic no positive evidence himself that occasionally members orthe club were invited to adjoining rooms in the building where a private game was inas conducted mr air DeA demoisy folsy recommended that pool and billiard playing should be pro habited on sunday mayor colton heartily agreed to this and also said that lie he had heard that the boys club played pla ed pool on sunday the marshal was authorized to use hla et ef forts in ili having tile the games prohibited on the sabbath marshal rich was nas also instructed to enforce the sanitary and health laws of the alt city several complaints were reported on violations after hearing the reading of abe the reports of the treasurer and auditor for the months of january and february the meeting adjourned oil OF THANKS AS p wish to thank our danyl many friends for their kindly assistance aBB latance and in empathy hm is pathy during our recent be rea ement we especially thank the good peo pie of dry fork and maser ARTHUR MASSEY mil AIR AND MRS AIRS BERT ROWLEY olaf lee of denver colo col was as a business visitor in vp voial 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