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Show THE CITY COUNGH Will Extend Water Maius to the Cemetery IF CITIZENS WILL HELP By Paying; for Water Bates for Lota in Advance A Second Faring- District is Established uiher Important Business Disposed of at Last Night's Session of the Council. President Cluil and Councilors Simmons, Sim-mons, Hoover and Glazier were absent at the session of the city council held last evening. Councilor Keeler presided, pre-sided, Councilor Ilalladay offered up the opening prayer. SPECIAL ORDER. The special order of the evening, bearing protests against assessing local tRx for MacAdamizing Centre, E, J and K streets, was called. Only one "no" Vote had been filed with Recorder Dixon, Dix-on, that by Thomas Martin who represented re-presented that he had filled in several inches of gravel on the corner of Eighth and J streets without receiving credit theretor. He is willing however to lay gravel on the sidewalk abutting his property whenever needed. McEwan moved that the improvement improve-ment specified in the published notice of intention to MacAdanme be made. Th .) motion carried. It next became necessary under the ordinances for the council to make an order to be entered of record in the minutes of its proceedings, authorizing and directing the work to be done and improvements made, under the supervision super-vision of the proper officer or person to be named in the order. McEwan moved that the road supervisor be named as the officer under whose direction the Mac Adamizirg shall be done; that the whole of the assessment shall be payable pay-able in labor, and Kn:dsen moved that the assessment of the property be per Iront foot. These motions carried. McEwan then moved that the matter of making an ordinance levying the tax and for the assessment of the property in accordance with the apportionment, the apportionment to besetfoith in the ordinance, be referred re-ferred to the judiciary committee. Carried. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. Joel A. Johnson and Chae. Leavitt asked to have old right ot way for water through block 103, plat A restored, re-stored, lleterred. Merinda Glazier , wido of Lewis O. Glazier, asked for a corrected mayor's deed for certain land purchased from A. W. Haws. The nuyoi'a deed to Haws, the petition avere, was erroneous in that the initial point was fixed just one-half miie west of where it was intended in-tended to fix it. Referred. B. Cluff jr. in behalf of the B. Y, academy asked privilege of hauling about 200 loads of gravel from a hill of gravel, the property of the city in the the northeastern part of the city near Mr. Conrad's place. Granted. Officer Allred (watermaster and street suyervisor) asked that Joseph Taylor be appointed as his deputy. Mr. Taylor's appointment was confirmed. con-firmed. Geo. W. Mickel asked to have the sidewalk grade established around his property in the Fifth ward as he now has much material on hand with which to grade and is making extended improvements im-provements about his place and wishes to bring his Eidewalks 10 grade. This petition was tabled to come up under miscellaneous business. When it came up under miscellaneous business, discussion ensued as to the possibility of giving one man a grade without giving giv-ing the grade of both streets upon which his property abuts, the entire length. The idea of another paving district occurred, and McEwan moved that K, L, M and N streets from Second to Fifteenth streets and all streets intersecting them running east and west from J to JS streets be laid off and be known as paving district No. 2. The motion carried. Mickle's petition was tabled as the establishing of this paving district covers the matter mat-ter touched upon. Thomas Boardman, J. E.Daniels jr., J. T. Johnson, Nels Johnson. S. T. J Jerry, Robert Boardman, J. W. Spaf-ford, Spaf-ford, G. B, Hopkins, C. A. Pederson, Silas Allred and Silvester Whitney asked that streets be opened beginning at the corner of N and Third streets east to M and south to Second. Referred to the committee on streets and alleys. These petitioners intend to build residences res-idences and otherwise improve their property if their petition is granted and the Btreets are opened. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Keeler from the committee on public giounda and city property recoocmend-ed recoocmend-ed that the city join with the county and purchase new test scales ana measures at & coat of $6,50 (city's portion, por-tion, the money waB appropriated.) Recommended further that county sealer of weights and measures be authorized au-thorized to sell certain old weights and measures not needed. Adopted. Ilalladay from the committee on streets and alleys recommended the purchase of a new 3 wagon junning gear with brake and the disposal of the old on. Adopted. The petition of Catherine B3wen tor remittance of 1893 taxes, was, upon recommendation of committee on finance, not granted. The same committee com-mittee reported that the collector has consented to abate one-half, $3.75, of the costs of tax sales of Mrs. Seaton Milnerre property. Mrs. Milner wished the costs remitted and she will pay the original tax ; the city will not rebate the other half. The committee repotted re-potted on the Pearl Ewing propery; all costs and taxes have been remitted. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. Under this read the council, on motion mo-tion of McEwan, resolved itself into a committee of the whole to determine water rates for cemetery lots in case it should be determined to carry thr water mains to the cemetery. Ward was made chairman of the committee of the whole. About four thousand feet of 4-inch pipe will be needed in addition to lat-teral lat-teral 1-inch pipe at an e'stimated cost ot about $1 600 for the 4-inch pipe and $1,000.00 for the smaller pipe and connections. The excavation will be comparatively inexpensive; probably $3500,00 will coyer the entire coat oi taking the water to the cemetery and distributing it. The committee decided de-cided upon $3.50 per whole lot. $2.50 per half lot, and $1 75 per quarter lot, as being a reasonable yearly rate for water. Owners of lots in the cemetery will be canvassed and asked to advance ad-vance to the city cash for the purchase pur-chase of pipe, and labor for the digging of trenches and take the same back from the city in water at the above rates. The committee of the whole then arose and reported, and the report re-port was adopted and referred to the committee or. judiciary with instructions instruc-tions to draft an ordinance in accordance accord-ance with the report. The sum of $150 0U was appropriated as a contingent fund to be used to cover the expense of putting the ten acres in the northeast part of the city into lucern. The supervisor of streets was instructed in-structed to purchase the new wagon (not to exceed in cost $65 00) and sell the old wagon to best advantage, as re commended in the committee's report above. After considerable favorable talk and discussion by the councilors in attendance at-tendance at the seesion and by Mayor Holbrook as to the opportuneness of the present time to pioceed with the work of laying the water mains to the cemetery, the benefits to be derived, the presence of Rhodes Brothers in the territory ready and willing to lay the pipe at a very low price, etc , McEwan moved that it be the sense oi the council coun-cil that.it proceed at once with the work of laving the water mains to the cem etery providing the citizens give the" proper and justifiable support. The motion carried and the joint committee commit-tee who have this matter in hand was instructed to determine upon and lay out the line and to solicit subscriptions. subscrip-tions. Superintendent Homer will be called upon to assist in this work and Mayor Holbrook was appointed to meet with Rhodes Brothers and ascertain from them their best terms, and report progress at next meeting of the council. CLAIMS ALLOWED, The Dispatch, publishing f,otioo of intent to MacAdamfze. . .$ 5 25 The Enquirer, job printing 4 50 PaintB, etc., for sprinkling wagon 4 20 Antone .Nelson, painter 4 CO Council adjourned to meet again on Monday evening March 25th. |