Show iron the diff THE COUNCIL the claU who have served the city faithfully alie tuo last eventful years bill liada baij down alie burdens 0 office before another issue of TUB they return to private life with alio assurance of well earned rest and the sincere thanks of a grateful constituency the time ia not inopportune to refer briefly t the labors which liams been ormed the present council came into chico under alveree circumstances alas striding to the front and was a demand tor public improvements prove ments the oft n newspaper organ took up lie call and all classes joined in it hut there was already a debt the the municipality owing to alie loir rate of taxation were small there waa no power to issue bonds and contract such loans aa were necessary to comply with the demands the council met the difficulty with praiseworthy tiomi laying their case before the territorial legislature they were granted the power to borrow and how wisely they used this power the record of their administration shows improvement has been the order of alie day alio streets the water system and the public grounds have all felt the firm thrill of progress and the two years past leave been the best the city ever saw jhb council may liae left undone some things chich they should leave done they may leave dor n aich other men would not leave done they do not claim perfection and wo do not claim it for but we maintain that they biava given this city an admirable administration one that can not ba forgotten we doubt if is in the land a city of the same size where BO much has been done in ao short a time with so careful an expenditure of means in these respects alie retiring officials have a record which speaks in its shining acts all of them accepted office at a personal sacrifice and the relief will be to them of most of the newly elected officers it may also bo said that their personal business will buffer from the duties of the public trust doubtless when the time comes they will be equally glad of the relief which another election will bring to some if not all of them we trust for the sake of ogilee and her citizens that when that time shall come what i now baij of mayor and his fel low officials may be then as truthfully said of mayor kiesel and hiis associates that their administration has been a model one progressive honest economical and strictly just to every man |