Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09
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LIGHT AND WATER.
THE CITT COUNCIL TAKES a FLING
IT BOTH OF THEM.

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Refused-The Council Chamber wall
to BE C1eaned-squabble Over the Elee
trio Light Bill-More Trouble Borrowe
Upon the Water Question.
At the session OF the City Council las
evening Mayor Hamilton occupied th
chair and there were eleven members pres
emit. The lobby in attendance was no
numerous, although this was the first SEES
sion in three weeks.
A communication was presented from q
N. Miller, the City Engineer OF Helena, offer
ing to make a complete set of plans for tn,
city's intended sewer system for $3.50, hal
the price he had received from the City o
Helena for the Same work. Tabled. such q
work being an impossibility at present IN,
til the city IN in possession OF full map OF
the grades of the streets and alleys, upon
which City Engineer Harper is engaged.
Besides the latter is fully competent to
prepare plans for q sewer system as any
outsider.
Two petitions for gambling license were
presentsd-from Harry Gilbert for a three.
months license and from Williams & Clark,
Ito Main street, for a six-months license
from February 1. Both were tabled as not
being explicit enough in stating what kind
of game they wanted license for. The
Council sat down on both petitions like q
thousand of bricks, and it may as we'll be
understood that petitions for gambling
license must set forth the game proposed
to be run.
Property holders on the lower part of
town, from Arizona to Nevada, complained
that certain streets running east and west
are blocked and traffic impeded in many
places and requested that those portions
Of streets be opened. The petition was re-
to the Street Commissioner to see if
the parties to the petition will give the city
an easement over the streets desired to be
Colonel Sanders, as attorney for the
Northern Pacific and Montana Rail-
road Company, presented apetition setting
'orth that the road is organized under the
avs OF Montana and authorized as such to
railroad from Jefferson City JET
erson County, to Butte, and that it has To-
lated and laid out the same and is engaged
n the construction thereof; that a por.
ion OF the road within and Immediately
to Butte is shown on a plat ac-
the petition, which is a part
II the necessary and proper ground for
urnouts, standing places for cars, depots,
tation houses and other structures re-
Iuired in the construction and operating OF
aid road, and in the judgment OF the Di-
ectors of said corporation it is necessary
o use, occupy and appropriate certain
known as Oregon and Beattie ave-
ues between Platinum and Gold streets.
nd two alleys between those two streets, |
hown on the plaC, and that it is, there
ore, desirable in the public interest that SO
,uch Of said streets and alleys be vacated;
nd the petitioner asks that the terms and
onditions on which it be allowed to occupy
nd use the same be settled BY the Council
Y ordinance.
The map accompanying showed the loca-
on proposed and was examined by the
of the Council. Colonel Sanders
emit on to explain that the location is
east Of Arizona, below the build
,gs now fronting on that street, opposite
ne large sign OF D. j. Hennessy & Co. on
ne road to South Butte, and extends east
eyond the city limits. It shows the loca-
OF the road from the vicinity
| Silver Bow mill and includes a
ght OF way 80 feet wide for half
le distance to Arizona and the balance
tract OF ground 800 feet wide at the mar.
and 500 at the widest which the
desired for tel minal grounds in
le city OF Butte. Colonel Sanders read
ON the statutes authorizing the Coun ell
, direct the terms and conditions On
hich railroad companies may occupy
reefs and alleys, and unless the road and
le Council agree, commissioners may he
ppointed as in other cases. There was
apprehension that the City Charter
inflicted with the statutes, but the Colonel
lowed it did not. In answer to questions,
le Colonel stated that the entire proceed
Igs contemplate, SO far as private inter-
It's are concerned, that the corporation is
,mpelled to pay owners just compensa-
Some doubt was raised by the Colonel as
!, the validity of Hopkins addition which
as plated in 1885, and it was open to
whether the statutory require
ents as to dedication of street and alleys
. said addition had been compiled with,
lere being no certificate on the plan filed
it'll the Recorder.
The chair commended that if the city was
ut properly entitled to the streets and
legs in question it would be un-
to ask the Councils per-
ission to occupy them. The Colonel
i'd he did not want the Council
, make a grant OF what they did not own,
nd only desired provisional authority
ON the Council in case it should turn out
lat the city had proper authority over
lese highways. The court would decide
neither the city had or not. The company
to begin the erection OF buildings
lere of such cost that they desired to take
very p1ecaution. He stated that the road
laid claim to the property on Janu.
" 20, when it's action vas commenced,
lbsequent transfers to that date OF any
art of the ground there set out cut no
,ure.
On motion of Alderman Pinkham the
ayor and City Attorney with a commit.
o OF four were authorized to look up the
gal status OF the city g rights in the ~streets
I'd alleys in question and report at the
,xt meeting OF the Council.
The chair appointed Aldermen Pinkham,
slkins. Monteath and Lynch as such COM
The Clerk then read the following bills
Iat had been o. KID. by the Finance Com
ittee:
Ill OF J. l.. Merrill for taxes improperly
paid to the city on property not in the
city limits....-.."......." Sc 75
I'm Mulville, b~lacksmithing JAN
80 %
~ & Grady, 3 pike poles aud
5Ut
indsor stables, horse keep for
5O w
:. Pinkbam, expenses.--".- 2 90
iners' Lumber Company.... o.
ute Hardware Company...... 90 |,