The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-25
CITY COUNCIL.

Proceedings at the City Counc
; on Tuesday evening, May 24th. lSS
Alderman Raleigh presiding:
J. B. Bean, petitioned for the II
, turn Of q portion of the amour
paid for license - . fresh mea
dealer, he having closed bushes
Nay 2lst, 1881. Referred 70 tn
lcommittse on license.
The Mckenzie Reform Club peti
toned 10 be allowed to use 4 portion
of the street and sidewalk on Second
South street, during the erection OF
its opera house. Granted under the
usual restrictions allowing twenty
feet Of the streat and ten feet Of the
sidewalk fronting the premises
The Mckenzie Reform Club. in
addition to the above, petitioned fol-
the right to excaVate under the side
walk frouting their premises, which
petition was also granted.
Applications for license we're sub
mitted from Marion Merrill and
Morton g. Tufts to sell liquors ct
their respective saloons for three
months under the existing law
regulating the matter. Granted.
John Sharp petitioned for license
as an auctionneer for one year.
Granted.
The committee on public grounds,
to whom was referred the petitions
of r. A. Margetts and Morris & Co.,
contesting the right to purchase a
certain parcel of land situated on
the mountain near the Hot Spring
Lake, reported that they had given
the matter careful consideration.
and recommended that Morris &
Co. be allowed the privilege OF pur-
chasing the north portion Of the
land to which they lay claim. con-
tanning 4 15-100 acres, and that r.
A Margetts have the privilege of
purchasing the remainder of said
claim, the southeast corner of which
touches the claim of R. b. Margetts,
deceased. The committee further
set forth that. having aScertained
that Morris & Co., for the alleged
purpose of defending themselves
against the contestant, r. A. Mar
gets, had located and filed papers
with view to obtaining a mineral
claim to the land in reference, they
would further recommend that Mr..
Morris be required to withdraw
said claim, previous to the making
out of the deeds by the Mayor.
Adopted.
The marshal reported that in &C
cOrdance with instructions from the
Council, he had made an examin-
alton of the various slaughter houses
within the city limits and had found
Them in various stages of uncleanli-
ness Some of the houses wherein
he butchering is done, were clean
md respectable, owing to the de-
of their proprietorS to
Keep them so, but being located
Upon ground unsuitable for the pur-
bose, no proper drainage can be had,
md the refuse from the slaughter
houses runs along on the surface of
he ground until it sinks, evaporateS
n is otherwise disposed of by the
elements. Others Of the slaughter
houses were in a filthy and un-
condition and anuisance
% citizens residing near them. The
of nearly all of them
on the difficulty of
their places clean, on ac-
count of being poorly located, and
the wish that the Council
would designate a place, possessing
he advantages required for cleanli-
hess, where Slaughter houses might |
De permanently located, to which
place they would cheerfully move.
On motion the verbal report of the
marshal was referred to the commit
zee on public grounds with instruct
ons to select a suitable location for
he purpose, and report to the
Council.
The following report was SUBJ
nitted and adopted:
70 the Hon. the Mayor and City
Council, Salt Lake City:
GentleNe1-Your special commit
ee, appointed May 10th, to take into
the propriety of nego-
Eating loan, or otherwise devising
means to raise funds to pay theI
purchase money of the land known
IS the mill Farm" recently pur-
chased for a park for this city, re-
report that they have in
7estigated the whole subject, and
consider that the purchase Of ITO
.cres of land adjacent to the city for
/ park, is a highly commendable
move, and one that will meet the
general approval Of the inhabitants
IF the city.
We do not, however, deem 1t wise
policy TO increase the indebtedness
If the city by borrowing money to
Jay for land for park while the
owns landed property
hat brings in little or no revenue,
which, if disposed of, would furnish
Ill the means required to make
Jaid purchase.
Your committee is informed
hat the Mayor has a standing offer
II S25, 900 for the lot owned by the
on the northeast corner
If West Temple and First South
streets, known as the Market LOt."
In view of these facts, we recon-
mend that the sum of 1927, 800
;wenty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars be appropriated for the pay
nent Of the purchase money of the
Mill Farm property; that the
funds arising from the recent sale
If lots in the Warm Springs pasture,
amounting to $5,945. be used in part
payment of said appropriation; that
he Mayor be authorized to CELL the
Market Lot before referred to, for
he sum of S25, 900, and that so much
IF said means as may be necessary
De used for the payment of the bal
ince of the appropriation for pur-
chase Of the park.
Respectfully,
III. DINW0ODEY,
FERAMoRZ LITTLE,
Jos. T. SMITH,
UnapiaI HOmmitfao