Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-23
STANDING OFF II N. P.
THE COUNCIL HAGGLING OYER
THE RIGHT OF WAY.

Colonel Sanders Tries to Persuade thu
Members to Give Up Oregon Avenue
in Hopkins A~ddition-The Electri,
Light Company Comes in For q Blast
The City Council met Wednesday, will
Aldermen Calkins, Evans, Lynch, Lewis
Mahoney, M~oateatb, Mulville, Olson, Pink
ham, Sergeant aud Wynne present, an
Mayor Hamilton in the chair.
The petition Of Williams & Clark. Lie
Main street, for a faro gambling license
for three months, from February 1. was
granted.
A copy Of the city directory OF R. L.
Polk & Co., was ordered.
The Butte Es ctric Light Co., put in a bid
for lighting the streets in answer to adver-
tisement. They offered a contract to put
in twenty-six electric lights, 1000 candle
power, on 3O-foot poles for SIS IA mouti.
each. If more wanted to be paid for at
Same rate. Lights to be maintained all
through the month except on nights when
moon shining bscured. The agree
nent to take effect March l and run one
year. There were no other bids.
MonteAth moved that the city be author-
lied to contract with the company at lis
offer.
Sergeant asked what ass urance wa
there that such q contract would be any
better observed by the Electric Light Com
pany than the present arrangement with
it. He thought some provision should be
made that if the lights are not kept burn
ing as per agreement, they should not b.
paid for.
Monteath said the difference between the
price Low being paid by the city and that
asked is 1928 per lamp.
Lynch wanted the bid laid on the table.
Monteath objected that they could not
take the responsibility of leaving the city
in darkness. He thought the suggestion OF
Sergeant should be incorporated in the
agreement.
Lynch objected to paying more than they
were now. 1t was encouraging monopoly.
Monteath revived his suggestion OF d
contract drawn up so as to guard against
it's non-fulfllment. The Council mad done
the utmost it could, and this is the best it
can do.
Pinkham objected to binding the city to
take tWenty-six lights. 1t would bar out
any other company coming in here. The
company was undertaking a bigger job
than it could carry out. It can't furnish
that number of lights regularly and keep
Them burning. He suggested contracting
for ten or twelve lights, and as many more
as they find necessary. 1t was the outside
lights which were unsatisfactory. The
merchants in the central part of town kept
the streets lit. He would ask if the con
pauy intended to increase it's plant. mo
respOnse.)
Sergeant suggested they make a counter
proposition. Let the City Attorney draw
a contract to take such lights as the city
needs, and insert a provision by which the
city would be protected from the inefficient
light service it has suffered from in the
past.
Monteath, the chair and Pinkham sug- |
gested one proposition after another on
which no action was taken. The City
Clerk reported the information he received
by inquiry of other cities from Portland to
St. Joe where there were different agree
ments with their street-lighting companies
that no light could be shed on the subject. |
The cost raj from $1S to $50 per lamp.
The result of a long and profitless dis
CuSSlOu tt6 UudU UuO "dUGcT "h6 IOlCEICu
10 the Committee on Light to report at the
next meeting OF the Council.
The Clerk read the report OF the Police
Magistrate for two weeks past showing the
collection of $31 one week and SIS an
other with the Treasurer's receipt for the
same. Referred to the Finance Committee.
Also the following bills o. KID by the
Finance Committee for which warrants
were ordered drawn on the Treasurer:
Bonner Mercantile Co., linoleum
and blankets, two bills...."..-".$129 10
H. s. Blume, acknowledgements. IA 90
A. C. White, building repairs at
City 20 w
g. H. Tatem, special police service ID 35
E. Simonton, cleaning fues."... 4 SO
James bryan. repairing iron cage. 3 80
". Litzen, cleaning paper OF court
IL on
II. A. D'AcheuI, medicine".""...". 1 90
E. Evans, special police service..". Ii 30
Pinkham made a verbal report in vindi-
cation Of what the city had lone in the
way of street improvements with two
carts and the team and wagon. He re-
hearsed the work done on East Park,
which he described as a heavy job, with the
small means at their disposal. One cart
was kept at work on the cleaning OF streets
and alleys, but it made slow Roadway with
frozen offal. As soon as the thaw comes
the carts and teams would all be put at this
work. The filling done this win
ter was with rock from the
dumps that made a rough
road. He was having a basement dug and
he donated the dirt taken out to the city
as top-dressing. He had approached sew
eral other parties with the same object in
view. No city team or prisoner had been
doing any work for him-this in his own
vindication as it had been intimated that
he was having the city employees working
for him. He hired mel to dig the cellar.
He spoke of the work that had been done
on Main street bringing it to grade.
As to the petition for a street in the
southeastern part of the city, he had in
vestigated and found that no property
owner had signed the petition. The only
way to get it was by buying the right
Of way. If the people there wanted
"a street let them buy the way.
On motion OF Lgnch, in compliance w!th
several property owners west nf GeOff
l. wells the CITY Engineer is instructed tn
establish the grade Immediately On West
Park street to the city limits.
The City Attorney reported on the plat
OF Hopkins addition that 10 spite OF some
informalities it was liz all respects legal.
As to an ordinance to regulate the sup
of water by the Silver Bow Water
company, referred to him aud Monteath
at last council meeting, he reported it i'm
~practica BILE to tackle at the present time.
Pinkham, as a special committee oa the
Northern Pacific right of way over Oregon
avenue and two alleys in Hopkins addi-
ton reported a resolution instructing the
City Attorney to draw up
an ordinance granting the road
right OF way over Oregon avenue, aud
giving it d deed ia fee to the alleys. The
street should be Lett open to traffic, and it
would be no Inconvenience to make their
track conform to the grade OF the street.