Show WATER PIER RIGHTS hullS OF CITIZENS h Civic Improvement League of oft t Ogden Is Studying the I Problem c. c 7 l V WOULD M MAKE MAKE KE COMPROMISE Effort to li Be Made lo to End Litigation Pending Between n City and r v Waterworks Company tr t ryr r 1 Mountain Inter H Republican t Bureau 1 1 1 ith Street i. i v Ogden June 28 The S.-The The Civic Im- Im t. t league JUC has hns taken n up u t 4 J number of oC Important matters having In Ill view the tire ind beautifyIng beautify beautify- log Ins of the city Many lany of oC the thc leading 1 citizens S and taxpayers have enrolled I is as members of If the league and amI taken take J i I an active ter i interest lt In th the solution of o ofHie b 1 the Hie various problems which confront I them at the Ir present lime lute X One of the mo most t Important matters thus far Car taken up is that of effecting r a compromise in a litigation now pending pend- pend A ing tog between the city and the Ogden CO company 11 At a n recent ent meeting of nf the league ue City Attorney John A A. A IJa Bagley gave l expression In the I i opinion f Someone has suggested e that lint the tho cit city codicil o night might thlik that the Ihl league going beyond Its lis q f tion Th The cit city council does docs not feel that wa way va at all nil The Fun council Is con con- cop cop- cOln- cOln posed o of good gool men inca who have the lie in- in 11 terest crest Improvement anti and welfare of the city at heart anti and wh who welcome nn any Ju or Improvements calculated c. to improve 0 lie beauty of oC OsIn city I If this thi kind of J an organization had been organized years yearn can ago the city cily would now no nob be bt bIn In lii condition in a a. as asfar far ar as Us Its beauty is concerned W YO We have liae now opened d to our public some some- something thing hung over pr talUs o of streets ii In this 1 city and antI perhaps iO or 01 miles a ad ad- ad that thai will some dl day be opened 4 Before any more mor streets are opened the greatest of oC care cat should b be n n to Ihu e. e already lIh opened I. I Let t us get Iet our streets straightened walked parked larked and It If possible paved I i t Water Rights of If There Js is another particular u subject I lesire to lo taut talk to you OU about and amI I beleve be- be leve I speak in behalf of oC the whole city cily council in fact o of th lie whole ado al- al o of 01 the lie cit city and that subJect subject sub sub- is in In- Inthis this on your water atI rights ell city Some 17 years ye ago ngo l this his city il thou thought it was a good idea to tu sell the waterworks and take lake in lieu lIu of oC that it private enterprise thou thought ht It JL was building up uit all au the lie city cily at that time tOne It was done lone and auth over O since tho Limu wo we got rid 1 of the thc water system water suits have been Instituted and have havo agitated over O the lie entire country y here Allow lIo me 1110 to state the situation as 10 It stands at nt the thc present ent time line There Is at nt present pending In the lie United States court at nt Salt Sail I Lake I c City Cily a suit brought ht L by hJ till the present waterworks Til fir In tr t iti r It ri f rt Tl A j M n. n J L tf In that j it the they would approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately get a j judgment id of about a against t the city There are arc I 00 hydrants situated around the city for or which a n rental I Is being paid and ll the they a are c also asking jUtI judgment ment on the th rentals of lr these hydrants The roe cit city slopped paying rentals on the ground that the lie city passed ed an ordinance about hout four years ago making rental fl free of charge to the city After Arter that the city repealed this ordinance and ani during durin Mr Glasmann's first administration ado ad ad- o ministration gave ave to them the sum mini of ISO 30 per each cath hy hydrant rant and also an occupancy occupancy oc oc- oc- oc t tax lax x of If Ir the tue y 4 tho lie right to charge then the thc water vater suit will fall fail and th the city will win That question f h is is- isnow now before Judge Mar- Mar l e Xo No Oh Obstacle l If it the lie elt city has the lie right to estabi i Ish the rent to be paid to lo the company com corn 1 i. i pany then the franchise i is ho obstacle r to this rl right ht There l is no legal obstacle obstacle ob ob- ob- ob stac stacle to prevent the lIH city from making these rates Allow mo nw lo to say right here hero 1 regard it as the thc greatest question ques ques- tion 1911 that is before the thc flub ur of this hits city just now irow People mUl must l nave have wa- wa tel tee and anel also at a n reasonable rate raLe The Tho r. r city officers are arl approached by people r- r In CI quest t of water Now No then lieu let lel mo me say ay this J If I Could give 1 you Oll the the- thea a assurance that thai Uter Ute the r. r court would shortly accord a victory ij lo 0 the lie city In the lie ease case now pending I would Kay Y ai walt wall we 31 aie going to win will and that would settle th the lie whole thing thinS 1 hut but these lawsuits have s. for the lie last 15 years f The Thie fh waterworks system now beI belongs be he- I longs bugs to a it private company and the lie ell city cily line has not riot the lie mon money y at this thiN time lime timeto to purchase It it The Tue question now hOW be- be lt l foie ore th tIre the city Is the extension lon and the lie t r- r rate Lo The gives some seine explicit In Information Ink ink In- In k formation a as the matter now stands The Tue Civic Improvement lt I league loague ague and ancI city c council have a n meeting on Friday night of oC this Iris week at time line it Is hoped something definite will be decided de de- chieu upon and when such com compromise compro compro- pro pro- I J mise itse is effected i iC i effected it fl will vilI be beJ 4 J oither submitted TO the moss meeting of the If league alu or Qt to In the people o of Ogden CU City for ratification a II on |