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Show The Salt Lake Tribune §.L. Council Plans to Slash City’s Budget #8 Continued from B-1 EMME crease in the general propertytax county flexibility ‘Forinstance, nowhere statute does it give counties in the powFor other counties commissioners from the current three. Meanwhile, the Utah Taxpay- ers Association andcityresidents weighed in with their disapprov- al Corradini doubted council members could find waste in her budget. She urged council members to wait until next year, when she and her staff hope revenue from new hotels, airline flyover taxes and light-rail-induced shopping will flood city coffers. But the council and membersof a capital improvementcitizen ad- effectively freezing out the two huge rocks. Matt Neeley, an engineer working for Bingham, said the backhoe operator stopped imme. water line along 2ndStreet into sion gets real dangerous.” the former Defense Depot Ogden. Bingham, the owner of Bingham Engineering, which has the contract, had told crews to keep a quartzite, unlike the area’s plain diately. “We all got in with our shovels,” he said, and started clearing the dirt fromaroundtherocks Thenthey calledthearchaeologist and the boss Don Southworth, an archaeolo- gist for Sagebrush Consultants, Neeley and Binghamput ontheir ground around the rocks were consistent with records of how the foundation to Bingham’s Fort was built in 1853. Gordon Jones, an Ogden man whois also a descendent of Eras: tus Bingham, agrees. Jones, who has spent years researching the central tah Brigham Young told Weber Mormons to “fort after an 1850 incident ir han Indian leader and a pio were both killed near Four Mile Creek in Harrisville It was then that Prastus Bi ham, the first Mormon bishop of the north Ogden area, laid out a fort that stretched from what is now the east side of Wall Avenue rock, to be part of thefort west of Wall big stepin theefforts of dozens of more than 750 peop! When the Indi:in scare passed and certainly the right type of If moredigging turns up ‘ur ther traces ofthefort, it may be a oncestood. Fort and establish a park on its site Bingham’s Fort was built after feet down beginning at the same a war erupted between Mormon to a point about The fort in 1856, quarter mil Avenue at its peak housed settlers tore down A sneak preview °3995. for seniors. 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We could survive with: would makeour lifealot easier He wants to write any new laws broadly, witkgut enumerating ev ng Speci mg Bor | Grand Ope Rose Bush pS S.L. County Changes Force Laws to Be Fixed ’ nuthortsed Re the fort's mud w Is and over the years, the location was forgotten However, the wall’s foundation a mixture of mud and stone bu ied several feet down, survived epend 6 PERSON SPA DUAL MOTORS LOADED with FEATURES nnn, s 3 TOTAL = JETS! —r pioneers and Indiar history of pioneerforts, said the rocksare in about theright place people over numerous years to trace the history of Bingham’s What they werelooking for, and found, was a layer of dark clay about four roe SUN 12-5 Southworth said the layers of smooth as possible. runs straight across wherehistorians suspected the fort’s walls Mio mA, AGT with lighter dirt above knewthe ditch for the water line scraped thewall of the trench as SPA cE E =. M-SAT 10-6 level as the rocks were found boots, got flat-edged shovels and sharp watch, especially since he CIP board member John Centerand buying propertyin the banged into one of chunksof glittery, crystal-clogged third, explained Rep. Keele Johnson, RBlanding ‘Three membersis just too few because twopeople become a majority,” Johnson complained. “If you have goodpeople, it’s a fine formof government, but if you don't, the three-person commis- dirt when thetip of the shovel away at two big rockslast week. Sittner ealls Corradini’s proposed budget “irresponsible.” For decades, mayors and City city's western Gateway to create park blocks” on 500 West. Sittner says Corradini’s 19992000 budget simplyfollows that traditional pattern of procrastina- A backhoeoperator struck pay Bingham great-great-grandfather, Erastus Bingham, hauled down from the mountains east of Ogdenin 1853 as he built Bingham’s Fort. The rocks were discovered last week by workmen installing a new That would avoid “the Council members have deferred B7 Friday, May 21, 1999 traces of a long-lost relative They may be rocks his great- visory committee areleery of betting on Corradini’s predictions. maintenance and replacement of city roads, sidewalks, buildings andparks to payfor flashier projects like Franklin Covey Field, expanding the Steiner Aquatic Brent pleased to find what may be counties increase the number of tyranny of two,” when two commissioners ally themselves and effectively ule their counties bythemselves. no other funding sourceis available OGDEN stood ankle deep in mud, scraping the commission setup, thekeeping legislative committ: ll consider letting sateto fundcityoperations,” Cor- members. “We should look to property-tax rate increases only whenthereis a critical need and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS er to enact graffiti programs, but it just makessense, so we doit,” Anderson told the committee radini wrote in a letter to council UTAH Contractor Finds Traces of What May Be Fort His AncestorBuilt ery power, in order to give the “Limitedtime offers. 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