| Show WATER FRANCHISE 1 FINALLY ADOPTED li Council Passes Measure I. I t D Despite spite Opposition of f 01 Browning and Others 1 t IMPROVE SYSTEM AT ONCE i. i 1 7 r 1 Appealing for fm a 4 Company n S I S Ice I lc Will III 1 4 Be lie I Extended Mountain Inter Republican s r I flu ilO Street r 61 Ogden d n. n Sept 21 The Tho same old ki- ki x- x water question was the rhe all im t. t subject at the re regular ular session f of the city council this evening ng- ng The v now hOW franchise having been heen returned s 4 from the law committee came up for Cor its Us third rending reading and nHI final passage e but j It was only after I a stormy round of L discussion that it vas pa paused passed sed over nver the t p I third thirl reading and became a n I law a w. w Mr ir B tine the n new w councilman again had out nut his Ills little hammer and strenuously opposed MII the franchise 1 nf There os a ft large J Jr attendance r of oC citizens and and- tho officIate of of- ho water vater company Jhc latter being 1 David I Chure Kircher and W. W Vj t j J. J Shea Shealy David Davie Eccles again ng-aln m made e i cleat clear his position In I the lie n anti and r r that hat he was more moie than anxious t t- t i that tine the old waterworks trouble and t I litigation would be settled once and for or all and that his company compan would i b lie willing willing- willingto to agree ree to anything that thal t s It was reasonable f ft Bonded 1 Debt g. in u The auditors auditor's tine the report regarding k t city's bonding and margin bonding InV In In- j V fI which was vas asked d for Cor or by I f Councilman Browning at the tine last ses- ses tt t. t slon sion was rendered to the council and showed that the general s bonding bonding- Int In- In t of th the city is beIng belog be- be j Ing log 3 in excess of the thc legal legai limit which Is II On th the strength of this report Mr MI Browning based his argument against the franchise statIn statta stat stat- ta ff In Jag Ing that the city is gradually going oln further into debt and that thal the pa pa- pa passIng pass pass- SoS S oS' oS Ing of or the franchise would increase j- j I the indebtedness lIe He again t I J advocated municipal ownership and 1 added mcd that now was van the tine time lime for the i- i citizens of oC Ogden n to secure it ft City Recorder reported 11 that h he had received a communication Ion from Sc Secretary I Kricher of oC tint tin waterworks waterworks water water- works worl s co company 1111 nn advising him that I upon the of the new nw franchise the com company pan would agree agle to extend its Us water in the cH city enlarge the he reservoirs I and make other needed needed need ned ed eel improvements S dC desired by the cit city Make I Improvements at nt o Once II l DavId ld EccIe of oC tho water compall company com corn pall pany said in lit this tins connection that he inc would n agree Iee to enter ill into to a contract ct with the he cH city other othI than th tine the franchise Ting tt tP make tim tho lio l i Iii I H l In hi I 11 ibi t tt iv I Ih fI r h 1 M W YUn tc d lJ This 5 Clo ht iL ac c t to most of or the Iho C a- a and Ma Mayor Ol Conroy Conro informed tho the hOd body I tint that It If I It would puss nas the franchise ranchi ho he would withhold his s until 4 r such a t contract had been bed properly executed exe ece- h by the water waler company A vote was walS then them tal taken cn resulting a sis as follows follow Six for passage m e and four foul In opposition tion Tine rhe dissenting votes were Browning Craig Cmil Am Austin pud and Dickson lIckson The franchise was then them passed No r other othel bm business of or Importance was was transacted by the tine council |
