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Show Citizens Ask City For Road Oiling furnishing of the exchange .water necessary under the terms of the i agreement with the American Fork Irrigation Company. Councilman Tregaskis and Recorder Barratt had met with the Training School Board and had been assured the school officials wers anxious to cooperate with the city in this respect. The school, said Mr. Tregaskis, had decided de-cided to have Engineer A. Z. Richards Rich-ards measure to them the amount of water they were entitled to under the terms of agreement with the Irrigation Co. and if they were using any more water than they were entitled en-titled to, that they were willing to take such steps as to correct this situation. Three properly signed agreements were received for the use of culinary water by parties outside the city 'limits: Luther Giddings, Calesta L. Johnson and Ella Cox. The agreements agree-ments were approved and placed on file. C. E. Young, as spokesman for a group of people, signers of a petition, met with the city council at the regular session last Saturday night, asking that the city take steps either as an FERA project or otherwise, that will make possible the oiling of First West street from Main street south to the railroad tracks. It is understood part of the expense is to be borne by the adjoining property owners. Hie cost of the proposed work was discussed and the matter was referred to the street committee for investigation. ' Chief I. L. Pratt with a group of firemen met with the council to present pre-sent a report of then- labor hi constructing con-structing racks to support the recently re-cently purchased fire hose. According Accord-ing to their report the men had constructed con-structed the racks at a labor cost of $25.00. Chief Pratt also stated the firemen were eager to attend the annual state firemen's convention to be held at Richfield August 2, 3 and 4th and had decided to set aside the above amount to apply on the necessary expenses of the nine members. mem-bers. They also were setting aside, said Chief Pratt, the July fires and drills money which would amount to $42.50 leaving a balance of $22.50 which they were anxious to have the city appropriate. Then; request was granted. A vacancy was now present in the the fire department, reported Chief Pratt, and he therefore recommended recommend-ed the appointment of Clark Chip-man Chip-man to fill the vacancy. The recommendation of Mr. Chipman was accepted and he was appointed. Fred Cheever and J. O. Meeks, D. C, met with the council to ascertain the city's attitude with respect to the July 24th celebration. It was reported re-ported the Lions Club had given up the idea of sponsoring the ceebration and the American Legion did not care to assume the responsibility alone and they felt it was necessary that someone make an attempt to an-ange a fitting celebration. Mr. Cheever stated that he and Dr. Meeks and others were willing to assume as-sume the obligation of preparing a program and putting it over if the city would appropriate $35.00. They further said they would contact the business houses for the balance of the funds necessary to put over a quiet but fitting celebration. The council assured them support hi the amount of the $35.00. A petition was received from Oscar Os-car Hansen, Arnold Jeffs, and Alex G. Erickson asking that the city extend ex-tend to these families service under the city's culinary water supply. They stated that at present they were forced to use irrigation water now available only three days per week for culinary purposes and were forced to haul water about a half mile the other four days and were asking as citizens and taxpayers that the city take some action to alleviate this dangerous situation. They reported that application had been made to the drouth committee for assistance in the purchase of pipe and other assistance. The group was given assurance by Mayor Storrs that if it were possible in any way to render assistance the city would be glad to offer the same, and he further assured the group that a project had been submitted under the FERA which might offer relief. The matter was referred to the water committee for investigation with the suggestion that such arrangements be entered into with nearby water-users water-users as to permit the use of city water by the stranded families in question. County Commissioner J. W. Gill-man Gill-man and Elmer Jacobs, engineer, met with the council to discuss certain common problems in connection with the Deer Creek Reservoir project. Mr. Jacobs stated that .an alternative project was now being considered which would eliminate the diking of Utah Lake and the contemplated tunneling for Duchesne waters, but would include only the transfer of Weber river waters and the building of the dam to afford a supplementary supplemen-tary water supply to irrigators and cities of the north end of Utah County and the south end of Salt Lake County. The approximate cost would be about $60.00 per -acre foot and could be paid back at the rale of percent on the principal over a 40 year period. Commissioner Gillman stated that water was the life blood of the future J development of the north end of i Utah county and asked the assist-1 ance of the city in putting over such a necessary project. Considerable discussion arose and after due consideration con-sideration the council's decision was in favor of supporting this project. Action, however, was deferred pending pend-ing the investigation by the city officials with respect to the question as to where and to what extent the city should supjjort this measure. Report was made by the city recorder re-corder that in keeping with instructions instruc-tions from the council, a letter had been sent the State Training School i king their cocpera'ion in th city's |