The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-02
CITY COUNCIL.

: John I. Lynch and twenty-foJ
others, residents and taxpayers {
the city, calling attention TO til
condition of the sidewalk on Secon
South street between Main an
First East streets. That the clos
proximity of said street to the pos
office. federal court rooms and tn
main business centre of the cit
subjected it TO constant use and YET
owing to the irregular grade an
total absence of any walk, that i
was now and had been for the pas
winter, almost impossible, ant
| people having occasion to visit tina
neighborhoOd were compelled eithe
to 90 around the block or wad
through mud at times almost shO'
deep. The petitioners asked favor
able notice by the Council of thu
| grievance presented. Referred t.
the committee on streets ant
alleys.
A petition from Philip Pugsley
and eighteen others, property
owners of the Nineteenth Ward
was submitted setting forth thai
that portion of Fourth West street
lying in said ward and paralleleC
by the q. G. r. r. track, was now
and for some months past had been
in such a condition as to render
travel thereon for loaded trrams
extremely difficult and at times
impossible, thereby causing loss and
annoyance to many citizens whose
business compelled them to travel
over said thOroughfare- The pc
titiOnerS therefore asked the council
to cause such early and needed
improvements as would be deemed
advisable. Referred to the COM
mittee on streets and alleys.
Hiram w. MikeSell petitioned for
the title to a certain lot in the city
cemetery which he represented he
had paid for, but of which no
record could be found upon the
Sections books. Referred to the
committee on cemetery.
Geo. w. Hill petitioned for the
privilege of purchasing a certain
three-cOrnered piece of land lying
south of the Warm Springs Bath
House. Referred to the committee
on public grounds.
Morton 81 Tufts made application
for license to sell YinOus, Spirituous
and fermented liquors at No. 10,
First South street for a period of
three months from the first day of
March, 1881, under the provisions of
the ordinance recently passed regu-
lating the sale>of liquors. Granted.
Newman & Reed applied for
license to carry on the business of
liquor dealers, ETC., at No. rs First
South street, for three months, from
March 1st, 1881, under the provis-
ions of the new liquor ordinance.
Granted.
Jennings Sc Sons petitioned for
the privilege of placing cobble-
rock crossing from the west end of
the Jennings buildings on First
South street, across the street north
to the opposite side thereof. Granted,
under the direction of the super
visor of streets.
j. ii. VanNatta and Louis Oviatt
verbally petitioned for the lease for
a term of years of a tract of land ~
ing northeast of the Warm Springs
Bath House enclosure, and near the
road leading to the quarries on Con-
glomerate Mountain. Reported to
the committee on public grounds.
The committee on license, tOI
whom was referred the application
of Russell q Burns for a license to
sell vineus, spirituous and fer
liquors nnder the ordinance
recently gone into effect, re-
ported that after a careful
examination of the records of the
court and information
received from other sources, they
found that the applicants had re-
peatedly failed to comply with the
of the ordinances
under which their former licenses
were granted, and the committee
therefore recommended that the
license applied for be not granted.
Adopted.
The committee on irrigation, to
whom was referred the petition of
John w. Pitts and ffty-nine other
residents of the Fifth and Sixth
Wards, asking that the canal on
Fourth West and Sixth South streets
be filled up, and assigning as reasons
for the request that said canal was
a continual source of danger to life,
a breeder of disease, a cause of de-
probation in the value of adjacent
a general nuisance to the
petitioners and the people living in
its vicinity and really of no value to
any one, reported that they had con-
ferred with the county authorities
in relation to the matter and had
found upon investigation, that the
canal was constructed by Salt Lake
County to convey the surplus water
Of Canyon Greek to the Hot Springs
Lake and to drain large area of
land in the southwestern portion of
the city and beyond, which was
inundated and on that
account useless, but which land was
now valuable and in good condition
by reason of the canal referred to.
That the county authorities. there
fore, did not feel disposed to have it |
i led up. Finally, the committee
it a matter which prop
erly belongs to the county and not to |
.he city, and the petitioners had |
therefore applied to the wrong
source for relief. The committee |
recommended that the petition be |
aid upon the table. Adopted.
The committee on public grounds,
70 whom was referred the petition
If J. J. Smell, asking the privilege |
If purchasing a piece of land con-
aiming one-quaTter of an acre in
Sec. %, T. l, n. r. l W, which he
was necessary to him
Is face to his limestone quarry,
and a way to the public road ad-
acent, reported that the piece asked
or was a portion of the land used
" Mr.. J. II. Van Malta as a rock
quarry for the last fifteen years and
that to grant Mr.. SMELLS
would work an injustice
o Mr.. Van Malta, the committee
recommended the adoption of their
'ormer report, which authorized the
mayor to give a deed to Mr.. Van
Malta for the land asked for by him,
Upon payment of the sum required
,er acre for land in that locality.
Adopted.
The following bills for the month
IF February, 1881, were allowed: EX-
)ense bills of the fire department,
sI39.15; gas for street lamps, S920.S3;
.as for city buildings, 5000; board
NO prisoners, S325.0S; janitOr of City