Show brief session of council was held on friday night W nhan dpn recorder vi v 11 ba on called the roll at the meeting of the coun cil ell on friday night of last week all members with the exception of 0 coun oilman george castleton leton were ples nt mr castleton la is just recover ing from a very serious illness and his friends will be pleasa to learn that it will be but a short time un til he is once more able to give hig big i attention to business matters james brei creighton aton in formed the council that he had fixed the manholes man holes at the lower end of the sewer system ao so that there was no danger of them being filled with mith water and refuse matter which is be ing washed down the gulch A few small claims were presented and after they had iad received the en ell dor of the auditing committee the recorder was instructed to draw warrants for their payment councilman philips phillips said that there were a number of small ponds of water on the north side of the gem mi ini spur and that culverts should be made so that this water mater would mould drain away he considered these ponds very unsanitary the counce coonc 1 decad ed that it would be advisable to have the city recorder take this matter up at once with the officials of the rail road as the water mater is stand ng on their ground and to drain that sec scle tion it will be to cut trenches across the track councilman phillips also suggested that the city have a survey made of the present water system putting all the information obtainable into maps he thought that it was also an op time to secure tor for the city a water mater supply and other councilman councilmen were of the same on this mat ter will no doubt attention in the 06 near future and in the mean time councilman phillips Philllp a and daug doug lasa lass have been appointed to invests gate the cost attached to the sur our beying and mapping of the water mater system they w 11 submit their re port at the next meeting of the coun cil and it is more than likely that this work will be taken ip without delay |