The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10
CITY COUNCIL.
An Important session on Friday
Night The Jas Works.

The City Fathers held an important
session on Friday night, which lasted \
from 80 O'Clock in the afternoon until r
s o'clock in the evening. There were v
present, in addition to the Mayor,
Aldermen Dee, Reeve and Watson, and r
Councillors Jackson, Clark. Smuin and
Brown. Alderman Vests chair was 7
vacant. :
There were several upimportant petit
tons presented to the Council and Y
acted upon.
Mr.. w. G. Childs, the gentleman who
has had in hand The erection of the new
reservoir, was permitted to address the
Council on the subject. He stated that
the work was now ready for the accept
ance of the Council, and he would make
q guarantee to the Council that, should
the work prove not to be fully up to the
mark, he would make 1t right. Inc
matter was referred to the puollc build
iugs committee to report, with further
time to consider 1t.
i Alderman Watson recommended the
payment of J. NJ. Dee's bill of $S7 81 Tor
pipes, lumber, ETC., to bill water carts
aud for balance due on account OF
sprinkIing the streets. The electric
light bill, of $l67.10, was also ordered
paid.
on the petition of George MawsOn for
: an increas of wages, and said that the
ianitor at Salt Lake put in tWenty-tour
hours day for $50.
, Alderman Reeve reported that the
i sum of $4,000 had been expended upon
. the streets during the past fortnight.
The owner of the horse which was
r Filled some time ago on the gravel
i system had agreed to accept sou In 1ull
. of his claim.
e The mayor reported that he had
,, borrowed SIS. 900 at per cent. for sixty
DAYS to be used until the city bonds
~ could be foated. -
A communication was read from Mr..
: Swan of the Mercer Gas Works, Call
y Ifornia, relating to the Ogden Gas
Works and offering to take up the
franchise granted to the McDonough
Company should they torfeitit They
would also guarantee to push the
works on to Immediate compietion'
Alderman Reeve favored the city
owning their own GAS works; then they
wouid bs independent of foreign com :
NAMES. In the middle of this advocacy,
Mr. Garter. of the McDonough Com
many. who own the franchise. entered
the meeting and handed communica-
tion to the Mayor, which showed the
amount that had been expended on the
pas works up to the present time. Mr.
Carter explained that when Mr.. NC
Enheimer returned from Clncinnau
the work would unquestionab be pro
ceeded with promptly. 1t was hnaill
agreed that the company snould OF
given two weeks more before any
definite action be taken by the Council
The Mayor then read the following
telegram, which is self-explanatory:
May 2Sth, 1883.
H. Young, City Treasury, Ogden:
All right. We take the five thousand cit
- bonds, s per cent, ten to twenty years ~
o. terest PAYABLE semi annually III New ors
% Dc 'ivered in Chicago. subject to LEGALITY. W
S9 paying $4,000 on dellV ry Win optIoh u
% Second S50.0Ou against outside investors.
IS Answer " wiz" NV. HARRIS & co.
; 65
81 To this Mayor Eccles answered as fol
\ ~ lows:
90 N. II. Harris, Esq:
w VIII issue per cent bonds only. Partle
. = O 00 here wishing to negotiate. DO you want
o 90 maze an onet!
200 The following was the answer:
1 90 CHICAGO, June list, 1888.
8 80 David EecEes, MGyor, Ogden, Utah:
y ~ Dear Sir-As we do not care to purcha::
n m your bonds bearing only per cehS. we a.
w not reply. We can do considerably bett'
}, IN than invest in 5 per cent. bonds OF yol
- - ~ ~ cIty However, if you can sell per cen
- 90 bonds of your city az par, we cong ratula
& 90 you AS regards qualify. your pona o are a
II " cont interest let us hear from you ar
70 60 obIige, NJ W. hANnio w.
10 90 Alderman Reeve introduced the sui
30 ~ iect of sewerage and advocated the In
20 M mediate consideration OF the matter,
D. Is he considered it of the most vial int
81 20 EST. He handed in the following con
munication from Mr.. D. @. Adams, r
% oo lating to this subject:
o. 5o SALT LAKE CITY, June7. 1888
Is 90 Mr.. John Reeve:
975 u, a Rooue desires me to say to yo
70 - CITY that if you would put sewer on w,
ID ~ street with capacity 10 take on the CT
drainage, which is to say, construct I
90 M Wall street sewer with capacity 10 1e. ~
~ w other street sewers run into the vail sure
-, ., sewer, and let the latter empty into M
SUI 30 creek, that he would stand a reassnat
- nroportion of the cost so as to secure ofal
age for the depot sgree A tSa Iens
lof the depot and short distance up FIJI
street. he would make all the grounds
front of the depot into beautiful park. VI
fountains, and an iron fence AROUND
whole business. so
Please take this up with the proper pr
ties and write me the result.
Respectfully, D. c. ADAMS
Mr.. Reeve, subsequent to the readi
of the ABOVE letter, said that the ra
road companies would not permit t
city to run sewage across their land
an open sewer.
Much discussion was then evoked
the matter of sewerage generally, a
the sanitary committee were instruct
to take strenuous measures to preVe
the emptylng OF sewage into the Foul
street drain. The committee on pub
bindings were also directed to CO
municare at once with competent
gineers in reference to sewerage for
true CITY, aud to give the matter thorou
con- investigation.
fiscal II was resolved that the paving
/ and Wall Street, referred to in the letter
saio Mr.. D. G. Adams, be left with the co
=, r,ittea on streets to consider, W