The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-10
CITY COUNCIL.

ADAM Spelr6 ana elRnt OtOsIst OOns1
tuting g committee appointed by ID
residents and land owners Of the Frs
Second and Tenth Words OF the city
which represented that the people
said wards held exclusive control {
~ the waters OF Emigration Creek 70
culinary purposes, and Irrigstln
their city lots, since the spring c
I849. That in the year 1858, one II
20 Il. Harris and other parties settle'
:. and took up farms on toe benei
q south OF the Iussne Asylum, outslo,
S of the corporation limits, and ussC
Z the surplus or waste waters upon sale
= farms. That said parties soon ate
petitioned tbs City Council for . por
zion OF the creek, which WAS denied
them as there was barely enough
water, when in low stage, for the
city wards, and that although they
petitioned twice more they we're each
time refused by the Council. That
the said h II. Harris and others dur
Ing the past summer petitioned the
water commissioners OF Salt Lake
County for one-hGf Of Emigration
Creek, and that although the original
owners of the waters proved their
right thereto. the said commission
srs decided that the farms
should have one-seventh OF the
whole stream, thereby depriying
the inhabitants OF the wards aiore-
mentioned of vested water rights
which they had enjoyed undisputedly
for eighteen yeATs. AS Salt Lake
City corporation was directly inter-
ested, by owning one block 1.-THE Tenth
! Ward Squars) which draws It's supply
Of water from said stream, and indI-
rsc!ly interested IN protecting her
citizens in their water rights and in
keeping water owned by the citizens
from being diverted out Of the corpo-
rate limits on to farming lands, the
petitioners respectfully asked the CO.
Operation OF the Council in any
further proceedings that might be
necessary to protect them in their
rights TO the use OF said water.
Referred to the committee on irri-
CATION.
7. B. Jones, OF tue Fifteenth Ward,
eetitioned that the fence crossing the
sidewalk which Adioins his property
81 the west end Of First South street,
which fence Was ord cred by the Coun-
,il to be removed on or before Novem-
Der lst, be allowed to remain, and (
hat tbs time for such removal be e1- I
ended, unfOreeen circumstances hav-
ng rendered it impossible for him to .
comply with the requirements of the ,
Council within the time allotted. t
Laid on the table.
A. B Taylor presented q commu |
lication in regard to the purchase OF i
and described in his petition of o.
ober 26'h The land desired was 4
low and ever had been vacant and b
and Mr. Taylor pro- c
,osed to make material improvements 9
Ipon the land so that it would be- O
ONE a source Of revenue to the city {
& we'll as benefit otherwise, and if d
okens of good faith we're required be o
iould be willing to take an agree n
nent from the city specifyin. T.
hat the Improvements should be q
made prior to the deed for the LAND Y
eing given, and that right OF way q
yer the land to Easign Peak be re- u
aimed by the city. Referred to the C
ommiltee on public grounds. c
The committee thereupon asked b
q expression from the Council OF its
laws as to whistler the corporation b
nolld dispose OF its lands held for a
be public benefit to private individ- n
ais. After discussion 1t was de- "
ided TO be the sense of the Council d
lat no lands in that vicinity be sold sl
} any person, but tina. they be re- t.
srved for the benefit OF the public. T
a petition was submitted from John fl
Terbst aud thirty-Seven others, resi- tt
snts of Big Cottonwood and Mill Il
reek Wards, and interested in The CT
1ute of the Jordan and Salt Lake
ity Canal, asking the Council to re- VI
Onsider the resolution adopting the OIL
PIPER line as the route for said canal. Y,
he petitioners endorsed instead Il
1s-eof the lower line, or the old cI
hurch Canal, which was already ex- Y,
AWAITED to = considerable extent and
40 houses, while on the
pper route, south of Mill Greek, the
ne, for long distance, runs along y
loose aand and springy sidehill, co. n
the safety of the bouses n
below. A
A remembrance to this petition,
gned by E. II. Williams and thirty
i ht others, citizens OF Mill Creek n
nd Cottonwood Wards, and owners !,
t 9 water ditch known as the Lower -
ANAL, was also read. protesting Il
gGinst any chsngs or re-
OF the route now II
.dep!ed BY the Council for 7
he canal referred TO. The :
iguers Of the rsmonstrancs set n
orth that they were the owners of the 8
over canal and had used it as . i
IAter ditch to convey the waters Of
he Big Cotton wood to their farms for
be past eight years, and that they
i'd not wish nor did they intend to be e,
in their rights. They called
ttention also to many OF the names *
t.sched to the pstition for recon p
liberation, aud stated that they we're
Ion.oWners aud had no claim or Q
iRhts whatever in the lower canal. 2
After remarks by gentlemen COM 6
posing committee appointed by the d
itizens Of the wards aforementioned, q
4ho we're in favor of the remon- t
trance, both petition and remon- i
trance were referred to the COM 6
nittee on improvements, and Alder '
men Piper and Raleigh were added {
hereto, for the consideration Of this
matter.
The committee on improvements
to whom was referred the petition Of
VIM. Varley in reference to VIM.
Jennings i Sons, agents for the
Dupont Powder Co., storing powder
in & house belonging to Joseph Burns,
etc, reported thst they had visited the
place and found that the powder is
not st present in a very safe place
but that it Was the understanding
that it should only remain there 8
few days while they are rebuilding
their magazines. The committee
recommended, however, that the city
marshal require the agents of the
powder company aforesaid to place q
guard over the house until the DOW