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Show i CITY COMMISSIONERS LISTEN TO REPORTS AT TUESDAY MEETING B i ; x H Will Improve Water System Through Sale "of City" Property H, Reservoir And Settling Basin May be Installed. s Bj Marshal And Sexton Send In i J H Quarterly Reports. B Tho city commissioners wcro busy : H at tholr regular Tuesday night meet-' B lng listening to reports from various H city officers as well as attending to BB tho montbly appropriations. Commls- H sioncr G. W. Llndqulst submitted nn BIU Interesting report on conditions o( Hi the city water systems. He stated In Hi tho report that nt present tbo system H as It now stands has cost tho city B approximately $155,000. Taking tbo j BR plpo from IS inch wood stavo mains . B to tho thrco quarter Inch distributing I Hi pipes, thcro nro over twenty-eight Bl miles of plpo In tbo system, with, Hj 1100 servlco connections. The city HJ has laid this summer 11,987 feet of I Bl water mains. The commissioner rcc-! BB ommends that during tho coming BJ year, n survey bo mado of tho system I BB and a map prepared designating tho fl slzo of pipes to bo used upon all BH streets of tho city; also that a mo-1 H tor bo Installed nt tho Intake To I nbato a nuisance of sediment and i Hj leaves now encountered during tho ' spring and fall, n recommendation Is mado anil adopted by tho commls-! commls-! ston to construct a combined rescr-, rescr-, voir and settling basin, just below tho ennnt Intake. The oxpenso attached at-tached to tho construction of this Improvement Im-provement will be ns far as possible J met through tho salo of lands In the i vicinity of tho present Intake of tho i water main anu near tho cemetery. Tho city marshal reported during I the quarter ending December 31, 1912, sixty-two persons had been arrested ar-rested for various offenses Of this I number twenty-eight had btcn nrrest-, nrrest-, ed for drunkenness. Tho sexton reported re-ported that during the samo porlod i twenty-four burials had taken placo In tho city cemetery. Mayor Haybn.. recommended that tho building Inspector bo Instructed I to havo owners of buildings over two j stories Inhelght, comply with tho or-! or-! dinnnco regarding flro escapes. Tho city engineer was Instructed to mnka a map and get out an abstract ab-stract of tho lands In tho city of which Logan City Is the owner. |
