Show 3 Surf IF ERIK arff facell cit y council of ogden s r I 1 BRISTLING FOR A FIGHT figari 4 h ja 1 the city fathers wont back down I 1 f it m 1 I OGDEN MUST BE BOOMED s the history should be written and everybody i councilor richs resolution 7 A 5 I 1 pursuant to arrangement afie the city council 1 I held a special meeting dec 15 1886 at ten am mayor D H peery presiding the roll call showed the absence of only one member the mayor said the business before the meeting was to dete determine armi n e what course to take in the matter of an injunction served upon him belf if the recorder and treasurer es ep joining them from proceeding fur further ther iu in aiding mr X W to publish a history of ogden city and northern utah the recorder read the injunction the title of which is as follows in the district co court 0 f the first judicial district of utah territory sitting in county wm farrell plain plaintiff tiff who sues for himself and forthe for the benefit of all the other taxpayer taxpayers of ogden city vs va david H pearyl peery mayor of ogden city T J stevena stevens recorder of said city 11 II 8 young treasurer of eald said ogden city and E W de fen fan dante dauta the above named plaintiff had complained unsaid court and pray ed td for an injunction ioA against the above named defend defendants an ts requiring ui ring them to refrain from doing any act whereby the sum of one thousand dollars or any part thereof ampro to pay E W for 9 history of ogden city shall be paid out of the treasury of said city on OU account of said proposed his tery the he judge of the court bed ordered said injunction to issue the necessary and proper undertaking having been veen given and the defend defendants anta were strictly command ed until further order of the court to absolutely desist and refrain from doing any act whereby the sum of one thousand dollars or any dizh thereof hall shall be paid out of the city treasury to E W on account of eaid said proposed history dated dec 1886 after come some remarks by the acting 4 city attorney the mayor invited m the members of the nn Counci ico Ho I co express their views in ii fe lation 1 to 1 to the matter 36 alderman dee eaid said ibe the council hadin had in good faith entered d into the broj reject eca lo 10 of 1 p publishing u 1 lishing a history of oad aden city i ty t to 0 advert ize the business interests int erets and its many advantages as s commercial and railroad center he thought the proper steps should be taken to have the injunction set met aside alderman eccles concurred in the remark remarks of the previous speaker and thought the interests of the city and its future welfare demanded that its ample resources should be made known the proposed history would be an excellent fet advertising advert izing medium councilor was in favor of taking a course to defend the the honest interests of the council in aiding to publish a abi history story of the city with a view to the general welfare wil fare councilor rich said there seemed to b be e in in the minds of some persons an idea that the proposed history will be a mormon history it itis the intention to see that iii an impartial history is published irre spec tive of any party ur or creed and in the interests inte reeta of the tho city and the general public he favored taking a course to set aside the injunction alderman driver taid in all ill we have done in this matter wo we have baid bad had in view the benefit of the thel IT inhabitants of the city we have acted in good faith our vast resources business facilities commer cul cial and railroad agvan advantages should be made known in some such manner as is proposed r a b by the bubl publication of the bictory ort qt ogden ogden city ity councilor boyle was in favor of publishing that history all hie his interests int erect are here and he lie is consid drably interested we ball shall not riot haye kaye a better opportunity of pacing before the public the commer copi ine cial advantages advantage of ogden city my A large amount of our business bux iness and cash cub is drawn from places outside of ogden and this bafs of trade bould should vastly increate creale in if people at t a diettore knew of odthe the advantage advantages of ogden a s a trading and shipping hipping point oin cf or the kp lock of n ae alt s 1 kind iuds i of gooder sn cef e i fa 3 chandise and machinery carried by the prominent business fir firms M of ogden councilor folker same me opinion as SA t the bd tua speaker he ile certainly certai uly thought ibe action of the council in the matter of publishing a history of og den was for the benefit of all the citizens and in the interests of business busi nefi it would oot not be a par lial hiet history orv it is would represent fryy w without bias bins all classes and would fend tend to give au an impetus to our e relations ione the mayor was pleased to see eo so much union iu in the matter the history as proposed propos cd would be fur for the beuett of the general public he understood from the be ginnick i ing that mr gullidge rul rui lidge liage with bie high literary ability and long experience would be a suitable man to write the history im impartially par not bei being ng as be he understood tz it ii a mormon ogden is a growing city the mayor eald said ho he had traveled over the united states from texas to braon and but few town towns odthe of the size of ours carry the beai ness aspect that ogden does there ignot that thrift not such largo large stocks of goods and merchandise mer chandie of all 1 kinds the great railways center here bare and ogden ie is known all over the united states and the man who i is so f far ab r back ack in the woods that he has not heard of ogden should not dot be naturalized the railroads rall roads have spent thousands of dollars in advertising their merits and facilities we want a book to send out to resources of this point this center point the mayor wants the book to be an impartial history and to show what has been done here and to give our present status and he knew the members are one with him in wishing for an impartial history 0 of i ogden this is the meeting place of the water viter facilities and of the trade and of the railway this is bound to be an eminent mercantile center here are three national Wat ional banks with some three hundred thousand d dollars ollars in each of them some men who haye bays no property interests here arc are pulling obstacles in the way of publishing this history but be he is in earne earnest st in the matter of advertising ver ogden alderman wright coincided with views similar to those already expressed and sustained all that bad been done he was in harmony with and would labor to further any measures to enhance the general interests int erele of ogden councilor rich offered the following motion mr mayor and gentlemen I 1 move that he the proper steps be taken to havethe ave the injunction set aside by the court that to thi this end the matter be referred to the committee on laws and the committee on finance Finn nce with the mayor added and that they have the power to act as they see fit including the wring of any assi assistant stana the city attorney layf mayweed eed in the matter the motion was seconded and unanimously carried the council adjourned sins sine die |