The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-01
published by Authority
mo. 10-1SS9.l
A RESOLUTION
Granting Certain Privileges to the Salt Lake
CITY Gas Compauy

City Gas Company.
Section BE it resolved by the City
Council of Salt Lake City: That the Salt
Lake City Gas company, a corporation
existing under the laws of the Territory
of Utah, its successors and assigns, be and
it is hereby vested with the right and privi-
lege of using the streets, lanes and alleys
of Salt Lake city for the purposes of con
veying gas to the users thereof, by means
of suitable pipes laid or to be laid below
the surface of the ground in said city, for
the term of twenty-five (25) years
from and after the passage of
this resolution; Provided, The Salt Lake
City Gas company, during the period afore-
said, shall furnish gas to the citizens of said
city at price not exceeding So per thousand
cubic feet, and to said city for price not
to exceed -. 80 per thousand cubic feet, and
shall supply the street lamps of said
| city with six feet burners and gas at price
not to exceed S35 per annum, for each
lamp, which amount shall include the light
| ing, eXtinguishing, cleaning and keeping
said lamps in proper order and repair-the
city paying for ali necessary service pipes
| from the mains to the city lamp posts. The
quality of Illuminating gas furnished by said
company to be not less than sixteen candle
power, and the same to be subject from
| time to time, under the direction of the
city council, to such test as shall determine
its quality; the gas to be furnished in such
quantity as the council may require for
public lamps and for public use, and as
| shall be sufficient to meet the reasonable
demands of the citizens Of said city; and
the pipes shall be extended and such gas
distributed on any and all streets in the
city, as fast as there may be any reason
able demand for the same on such streets.
Sec. 2.-The said SaltLake City Gas com
pany shall file with the city recorder
plot, showing the location of all the main
gas pipes laid within the city by said COM
pany, who shall have the right during the
| term aforesaid, to dig and open trenches
| from the surface of the ground down to said
main gas pipes, for the purpose of maintain
| ing them in good order and repair; and to
enable said company to have access to said
main gas pipes; no railroad track or ties, or
any part thereof, or any like obstruction
shall be laid over said gas mains, or nearer
than one foot in the clear, from the bell
Joints of said gas mains, when measured
| by a vertical line except where it is neeces-
sary for a railroad to cross said gas mains.
And no gas pipes shall be laid nearer than
four feet to any water main or service pipe,
except where the pipes cross each other,
nor shall any such gas pipes interfere with
any future sewerage or other public i'm
provements in said streets, lanes and alleys,
but said company shall have the right to
extend said pipes and box the same across
any and all sewers, subject to the hmlta-
lions aforesaid.
Sec. 3-All streets, lanes and alleys
opened for the aforesaid purposes shall be
repaired by the said company to the salts
faction of saidcity council, within a reason
able time, and said streets, lanes and alleys
shall not be unnecessarily obstructed at
any time; all excavations for gas pipes
shall be made under the direction of the su
pervisor of streets, and the said gas com
pany shall, at all times, be controlled and
governed by the ordinances of the city then
in force relating to the manner of laying
distributing pipes, and of making and
guarding excavations therefor.
Sec 4. Said Salt Lake City Gas COM
pany, its successors and assigns, shall be
responsible for any damage, either to per-
son or property, resulting from any act or
negligence of the company, or its officers,
agents or employees, which may accrue by
reason of the exercise of any of the privi-
leges herein granted.
Sec. 5.-UnlesS a written acceptance of
this resolution, with the conditions restric-
tions and limitations therein contained, is
filed by the Salt Lake City Gas company
with the city recorder of Salt Lake city
within sixty days from the date of the pas
sage thereof, this resolution, and the fran
chise hereby granted, shall be void and of
no effect.
Passed August 80, 1889.
Francis ARMSTRONG, Mayer.
Attest: HEBER M. WELLS,
SEAL City Recorder.
TERRITORY OF UTAH, &c
SALT LAKE CITY.
/, Heber NJ Wells, recorder of Salt Lake
city, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is full, true and correct copy of "a reso-
luton granting certain privileges to the
Salt Lake City Gas company passed by the
city council of Salt Lake city, August 80,
1889, as appears of record in my office.
In testimony whereof, l have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the corporate
GsEAL. seal of Salt Lake city, this 3lst day
of August, A. d. 1880
HEBER M. WELLS,