| Show BOARD OF COUNTY commission ERS IN REGULAR SESSION TODAY investigating the excessive amount of light used in court house and trying to fix the blame the board of county commissioners held thair regular session this forenoon and transacted quite a lot of routine work including the appointing of several deputy assessors aad the regu biting ot their compensation for the county and city districts on january 30 at the regular meeting of the board assessor alx submitted the names of phil L orth huntsville W R mcfarland garland C H chandler randall robert A jones M D harris harrisville C purdy ogden city for deputy assessors and miss agnes R maguyre Magu lre office clerk action on these appointments was deferred until today when the board confirmed the appointments as submitted and took lip ane question of compensation it was finally decided that the compensation tor all deputies working in the county districts should be per day and the three deputies working in ogden city should receive per day while the three office clerks salary will be per day A petition w as presented to the board signed by john H jorgenson and 33 others from huntsville recommending the appointment of george A burrows for deputy assessor which was in effect denied by the confirmation of the appointment of phil L orth for that position commissioner stanford reported that in company with commissioner madain and civil engineer A F parker he had visited and inspected the steel bridge over the weber river north of the sugar factory and that air darher had submitted a written report upon the matter which was thereupon read as follows to the hon board of county commissioners of weber county utah gentlemen in the matter of an inspection spec tion of the steel bridge across the weber river north of the sugar factory which was made on february 4 1905 by commissioners stanford and abad sou and myself I 1 have the honor to report as follows the object of the inspection was to determine the feasibility of setting the bridge lower than it is at percent per sent this is very deel rable as the bridge as it now stands is at least five feet too high the bridge can be lowered the steel tubular piers being cut off or rather the top sections removed at the joints ana tha bridge reset on the shortened piers I 1 do act think this can be none for less than on account of the near approach of high water and the time it will take to obtain bids and perfect arrangements range ments I 1 jo not think it wise to attempt any operations until after high water is over further I 1 think the tubular piers should thea at lowest water be carefully inspected forat may be that changes or repairs may be found to be necessary therein as the south piers are now directly in the main current of the river and the gravel la washing out badly I 1 would therefore respectfully recommend that as soon as high water Is over the bridge and piers be again carefully inspected and then it thought advisable advertise for bids on the proposition ot a specification calling tor each bidder to submit bis own plan and device for lowering the bridge and the price respectfully submitted A F PARKER C E commissioner stanford stated that mr parkers report embodied the sen of the committee upon the matter the report was thereupon accepted and approved and the recommendations ions therein contained were unanimously adopted the bond of n L bybee sr road supervisor of the uintah district with A C farley as surety waa approved and william stimson the present incumbent was re appointed road supervisor of the burch creek district inventories Inventor iea from the sheriff and assessors ses sors were received by the board and referred to the committee on auditing ot offices in the court house P W beaker appeared and asked I 1 aid tor bis family account of illness and the matter was referred to the committee on poor vuth full power to act commissioner madson asked tor and was granted 50 to repair the roads in the west weber district and was granted further atmo to investigate the condition of the one half mile of road leading from the bridge between warren and west weber near McF arlanda place at a previous meeting C A en and others had protester against the taxes assessed on a blooded horse owned by them as being too hiffa and die tax was paid under protest and the board was asked to rebate a certain amount ot tha taxes so paid the tax committee to whom the matter had been referred reported that they had conferred with the county attorney who stated that the board bad really no to rebate taxes and therefore recommended that the application be denied which was done dr forbes submitted his report of tho one case of smallpox that was now at the pest stating that the man had just come from denver when the disease wag discovered and that his brother who accompanied him vas taking care of the sick man on motion of commissioner wilson sir stanford was appointed a committee to investigate the advisability of placing separate electric light meters in each of tho offices in the county court house in order to ascertain in what part of the building an five amount of light waa used it appears that although the days are now growing longer and there is practical ly no night vork the light bill increases with each month and the board wish to determine the cause and to save the expense as much as possible commissioners madson and wilson were appointed a committee to confer with the independent telephone co as to their rates for installing telephones in the different offices in the court house and later to report to the board |
