The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-24
CITY COUNCIL.

proceedings Of the City Council,
tuesday evening. October %, 1883,
Mayor Jennings presiding:
The Herald Printing and Pub
fishing company. by its manager,
ID. g. Dunbar, asked permission to
use portion of the street and side
walk at the intersection of First
South and West Temple streets,
wheleon to pile building materials
for the term Ofninety days. Granted
under the usual restrictions.
A petition. was presented from T.
u. Giles for the District Telegraph
company, representing that they
were DESTROYS of introducing the
district Telegraph system in this
City for the accomm odation of bust.
ness men and the public generally,
and asking the Council to grant
them the right to erect the neces-
sary poles in the streets and string
the required wires-the same to be
done under such reasonable regula-
tlons as might be prescribed. 1t
was their pre-. ent intention to string
only eight wires, .and most of those
would be hung on the telegraph and
telephone poles already erected.
Referred to the committee on inn
provements.
A petition was presented from
Thomas Taylor, FL. 2. Richards and
John Morgan, trustees of the Four
teenth School district, calling atuen-
ton to the grade of the sidewalk
ordered to be made some time since
on the schoolhouse block, First
South, between West Temple and
First West streets. They repre-
scented that they and one or two
other parties had fulfilled their part
of thellab0r, but that a portion of the
sidewalk lying between the school,
house and the Continental hotel cor
ner was so low that it was q pool of
mud and water in the winter sea-
son, and children were obliged to
take the street in travelling to and
from school. AS large excavation
was now being made on the Oppo-
site corner where suitable material
could no debut be obtained at little
cost, petitioners asked the Council
to take such action in the matter as
would secure the speedy completion
of the improvements desired.
Petition received and work asked
for ordered to be done in accordance
with previous instructions of the
Council.
A petition was presented from
George Goddard, by his attorney-in-
TACT, William Fuller, alleging that
he had long had possession Of and
title to that portion of block 4, plat
F, Salt Lake City survey, lying and
being west of and below the Jordan
and Salt Lake city canal and making
application for water for irrigating
purposes on the said land from the
canal. Petitioner represented that
the land had been in cultivation for
several years, but it would be a diff.
cult and expensive matter to convey
water from the old source across the
canal to. his land and therefore he
prayed for relief asked for. Referred
to the committee on irrigation.
A communication was presented
from John Gormly, stating that he
had recently noticed and counted
eleven dead and rotting sheep in a
distance Of few rods on the head
Of City creek, some of which were
in the creek and none farther away
than thirty feet. He suggested that
an inspector be appointed to ride
once q week to the head Of the
creek and report its condition to the
Council, and volunteered his SER
vices to act In that position fer
nothing, if the city would pro-
vide him with q saddle horse.
The Mayor stated that having
been apprlsed on Monday of Mr..
GOrmly's statement relating to dead
sheep in City creek he had requested
the Marshal to visit the place re-
ferred to and investigate. The
marshal being present reported
that with Messrs. Hampton and
Wilcken he visited the place in
City creek referred to (having
previously obtained definite direc-
tons from the complainant), and
also traverSed the whole of said
creek aud found two dead sheep In
the canyon-one about half a mile
above the highest spring and one a
distance below and about forty feet
from the creek. These were all the
dead sheep they found, though
from some wood choppers who
came down the right hand fork
they learned that a man named
Reed undertook to drive q large
herd Of sheep over the divide during
the recent storm and a number of
the sheep were attacked and killed
by bears; but these were at the
mead of the right hand fork in a
place. sort of a bason-from
which there was no possibility of
the waters getting into City creek.
On motion, the Communication of
Mr.. G0rmly was received and laid
on the table snd the report of the
Marshal was ordered to be spread
upon the minutes.
A communication from the City
calling attention to un-
lanes in the city, was referred |
to the committee on streets and |