Show CITY COUNCIL lui the city council met in regular session tuesday evening april mayor baskin in the chair all the members were present except loofbourow and karrick after the usual formalities the following PETITIONS were read and referred as indicated priced price williams Willi anas asked permission to pile building material at 73 0 street referred the ladies of bf the central christian church asked for the privilege of conducting an easter market at no south main street to loth inclusive for the sow of art and faucy faricy goods and to serve refreshments refresh menta the proceeds to go towards orect erecting ipg a house of worship for said church in we this city granted J joseph B R walker and others asked for the erection of a footbridge across the canal on the west side of state street and corner of ninth south street committee on streets M E steele eleand and others asked that third north west of eleventh west street be op opened elied committee on streets E A adkins sent in a bill for 35 for work done op on the city reservoir committee on claims judge Judg powers ePowers and ogden hiles sent in a bill for 60 50 for services rendered in nuisances cases committee on claims A W carlson called attention to a petition recently presented to the council asking for an electric light at the west end of plum street committee on improvements houghton mcnair et al a asked that the gutter on the south side oi of second south street from arona malin main to commercial be repaired so as to drain off the surplus water in that thorough h fare committee on streets josephine M spear being desirous of putting down a sidewalk in front of her premises at the corner of third thira south and west temple streets requested that a sidewalk tax heretofore levied but never completed be expunged from the books of the assessor referred B R E cullman asked to be appointed city electrician committee on improvements prove ments john W snell asked that he be given a grade by the city engineer ene ineer for the premises and south first east street where he be has public scales located ared referred caleb blackburn complains of a fence which john green has erected at the corner of north first east and north temple street which infringes on the city road referred M A wilder and others other asked permission to connect their property with the water mains samuel J paul and james mcgee asked for the appointment of charles handl ater master of the kennedy ditch iba la special police referred W ha 7 M A wilder and others represented that they desire to have connection made with the mains laid in front of their properties and set forth that the wa 8 have been laid and a of 4 mills levied to pay for the same game that they have been advised that the special JID eCial tax is unjust and illegal and that although they with many others have commenced I 1 legal a proceedings to test the constitutionality of the ordinance authorizing the special tax and have become tired or of waiting for the case to come to trial HIS PROPERTY DAMAGED edwin rushton bushton protested against the city building a bridge across the jordan river on the west side of his big land for the purpose of establishing a thoroughfare and declares that b by y such unlawful action he has been damaged in a sum not less than which he be wants paid and also demands that the water pipes already laid there be removed and the premises restored restore iW their former condition in the matter of the petition of F D clift baking asking to be allowed to lay hi alir own sidewalk the board of public works submitted an adverse report city eng meer and city attorney GLENN HIMSELF justice keeler kealer sent in the follows following 29 recommendation pursuant to the re emonts which entitles entitle a the police court toa to a clerk I 1 respectfully recommend the appointment of C bogenn BO ikenn Henn confirmed STREET department EXPENSES supervisor paul of the street department submitted a report which showed that the expenses of his department from april to date were OFFENSIVE FUMES robert J caskey of the salt lake collegiate institute protested against allowing the premises in the rear of his big building on second east street between first anti and second south to be used by a california paving company for the preparing of paving material on the ground that the fumes fumea from the same game were offensive DONT WANT WATER MAINS H M mccartney and others protested against an extension of water mains on green street on the grounds that they have had no legal notice of the intention of the council to lay jay water mains that the mains are not needed WATER MASTERS REPORT the submitted a report which showed that the expenditures of his hie office for the quarter ending march lot amounted to TO WIDEN GREEN STREET H M mccartney and others other 1 8 represented that they bey were owners of 0 f lots 1 to 6 inclusive in block 33 plat E and a portion of lot 10 block 84 same plat making in all a frontage of feet on green street and that a petition had bad lately been presented to the council asking that that thoroughfare be changed from a 2 rod to a 3 rod street they now asked that the width of the street be made sixty six elx feet being the narrowest street now accepted by the CRY city BILLS ALLOWED secretary stanton blanton of the joint cl city ty and county building committee handed in a communication which stated that the following bids bad been pr presented to the committee J FL bowman second estimate 00 H M millard superintendent 80 00 times publishing company advertising 26 25 00 0 P brooks engineers wort work 6 5 00 george M scott co tools 4 63 total 63 cites chare one half 81 allowed MORE MONEY FOR FOB stanton the committee on fire department reported that they had conferred with captain donnell the surveyor on in aurance rate and that that gentleman represented that the city had been benefited from the reduction in rates during the last year to the amount of more than simpy through the efficiency of the city cites Is fire department through the good work of the chief as fire inspector during the past month thirty six complaints had been filed and nd the fire inspector in company with captain Donia donnell caused their re moval boval the committee also an bounced that the fire inspectors of other cities received 1800 to 2600 2500 per year they therefore recommended that the chief of the fire department fill the position of inspector and receive for the same a salary of per month adopted ENLARGED FIRE LIMITS the same committee recommended that the fire limits of the city be ex tended as follows west and north beginning at the northeast corner of fourth south and first west and running west along the north boundary line of fourth south ten rods west of the jet bound ary line of block thirty six plat 0 thence first north through block 36 87 48 49 60 and 61 platt plat cy cr ten rods west to the east boundary line thence east along the south boundary line of first north to the west line of first east to the northeast corner of first east and north temple street embracing all of blocks 46 47 48 49 60 to 67 inclusive 78 79 80 to 85 inclusive 93 to 99 inclusive adopted STREET SIGNS the committee on improvements recommended that bat ln in the matter of placing street signs signi the gas lamps be used on the principal streets on OB all the bu business biness E streets the signs are to be placed laced on diagonal corners and the district Ni district strict to be covered is as follows from eighth west street to the reservation on the east from fifth north to ninth south plat D seventh street to the reservation adopted STREET MATTERS the committee on streets recommended that the street supervisor inspect all the streets within the limits of the city and report such as need repairs to the council and furnish the cost of the same adopted ill au that second east street be aught to a permanent grade and macadamized or otherwise permanently improved as soon as an the property owners signify their willingness to pay their proportion of the tb expense adopted that the petition asking that green street be opened be referred to the city engineer for report adopted that the plat of prospect park be accepted and the city engineer author laed to approve the same adopted that the following resolution be adopted whereas we recommend that it be declared the general policy of this council that the cost of bringing streets to a permanent grade and improving the same shall be on the assessment plan according to the law in force covering the he work of paving and other improvements WATER MAIN EXTENSION the city recorder reported the completion of publication of notice of intentions intention tent ions of completion of sidewalks no 21 of water mains nos NOB to in elusive olus ive RETAINING WALLS the city engineer returned the petition of charles P brooks regarding retaining walls on state street because the entire matter had bean referred to the board of public works WEIGH SCALES the same official called attention to the wagon scales located on state street between pint first and second streets and suggested that they be removed in order not to delay paving contracts contract adopted TEMPORARY GRADE the same official presented a profile of W the proposed temporary grade of the great salt lake and hot springs rail way apted App ted COST OF maintenance MAiNT EXANCE the same official presente prea ente I 1 his bis report for the quarter ending march slat 1892 it shows the expenditures to be the receipts making the net expenses adopted SIDEWALK PAVEMENT the same official reported on the petition of E B wickes et al relative to sidewalk pavement on east temple street at the corner of third south that while it was constructed to constructed ted so BO as to conform exactly to the grade it will answer the present re guire ments adopted PROBABLE COST the city auditor submitted a statement showing the probable cost of the departments for the quarter ending june it is as follows police department 00 ci city engineer OU 00 etire department 4 0 2 00 health department s 7 1 16 15 weter works 00 oater 00 sewer department 1812 recorders Be corders office I 1 lm aa 00 treasurers Treasur ers office 1226 00 assessor Assee sor and collectors office 1060 1050 00 police court 00 assessor ane anc collector ot of water rates 00 auditors office 00 printing and advertising 1260 1250 00 general expense 1360 00 city 2600 00 supervisor of streets 00 city attorney total 90 W MORE PIPE WANTED superintendent of Water works a aryan reported that before the water could be drawn from parleys canyon conduit into the lower system it would be necessary to lay jay eleven blocks of sixteen inch pipe and two blocks of eight inch pipe it was necessary that official said that the work be done by june lot he said he also needed thirty five tons of eight inch pipe for the north bench high line estem system NUISANCE 0 tylor taylor sent in a bill for three days a as a witness in the third district court in the showell bingham inu nuisance teance case A FARMERS PROTEST edwin rushton bushton asked that no action towards opening a street through his bis farm arm be taken extensions the city recorder reported that the aist of plate pertaining to local assessments extension fori of water mains on first north between fourth west to midway between seventh and eighth west on fifth south from midway between fourth and fifth west streets bad been published according to law the same officer reported that no tices of intention to extend water mains on the following streets had been published according to law from intersection of west temple and third south to intersection intersect iod of first west and third south streets from midway between fifth and sixth south streets north feet on ninth east boat street from fifth to seventh south on eighth west tand along fern street as petitioned for MORE MONEY MONET FOR FOB THE FIREMEN A lengthy communication from the committee on fire department recommending the increase osal 0 salaries arles for the firemen mounting to a year was read and adopted on a vote of 9 to 8 MUST BE BB VERIFIED the bill of D W rench bench for work wo rk done on the surplus canal was returned for verification by the weiter master the bill or of E A adkin son for work done at the city cemetery was returned for the same action A DITCH TO BE DUG the committee on irrigation recommended that a ditch be dug along the east side of the denver rio bio grand track abd the water turned in the same adopted PLAT ACCEPTED the plat of granite subdivision was accepted providing the owner makes ohio avenue a 66 foot street american avenue is in to be 68 58 feet wide STREET MATTERS the committee on streets recommended that the street supervisor inspect all the streets within the limits of the city and report such as need repairs to the council and to furnish the cost of the same the street committee becom recommended mended that second east street be brought to a permanent grade and or otherwise permanently improved as soon as the property owners signify their willingness to pay their proportion of the expense adopted SIDEWALK GRADES the city engineer submitted profiles showing sidewalk grade on tenth east from eighth to ninth south I 1 margaret street from eighth to ninth south eleventh east from eighth to ninth twelfth east from eighth to ninth south eighth sou south th from tenth east to reservation sun sunny ny side avenue from Men garet street to reservation ninth south from tenth east to reservation adopted TO SLAUGHTER THE DOGS the committee on police recommended that the dog tax collector be made deputy city marshal with instructions to co collar all unregistered dogs keep them for twenty four hours and then dispose of all the canines not ca claimed si med this to be done with expense to the city adopted CANNOT TAKE WATER the petition of joseph muir to be allowed to tap the jordan and salt lake canal for the purpose of obtaining water for sprinkling purposes was denied n aed as an enough water can be obtained from the irrigation ditch SALARY SCHEDULE the finance committee submitted the following report we your committee on cost of maintaining a number of permanent em aloyes in the several municipal departments beg leave to report as follows city auditors department auder auditor at 1800 per year city recorders department ansite onsite on recorder 2400 per year one deputy 1200 per year one clerk 1000 per year one clerk 75 per mouth month one typewriter typewrite rp per year total five employed emp loyes at 00 per year or 18 1 8 per month city treasurers Treasur ers department one treasurer 2400 per year one deputy 1500 per year one license man 1000 per pear total three men at per year or 13 1 3 per month sewer department one superintend ent at 2000 per year one engineer at pump 1200 per year one assistant engineer night man per ye arrene yea clerk per year three men and teams 1716 per year one foreman pr per year one PIP pipe i gauger per year total nine men per year or per month laborers receive 12 per week or 92 2 per r day there are often more than one loreman foreman and pipe gauger ganger employed employ edund d sometimes there are none empl pea therefore they are not properio prope properly permanent employed emp loyes this will 9 show ow still probably under rather than over the annual and bontly coob of maintaining the department city engineers department one city engineer per year one assistant 11 per year one chief draughtsman 1500 per year three assistant draughts men WW per year one clerk 1200 two 1800 per year one man and team 1248 per year one janitor per year one inspector of plumbing and sewer 1680 per year total twelve em aloyes per year or 1306 per month engineer of sewer construction J fewson smith jr at 6 5 per day and a rod rodman man at per day are employed as their services are required from day clay to day which makes the above figures an under |