The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-25

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
NO. L, 1890.
a RESOLUTION
Authorizing the execution of contract be-
tween Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City
Gas company and the Salt Lake City Power.
Light and Heating company, for lighting
the streets OF Salt Lake city.
Be it Resolved by the City Council of
Salt Lake city, That the mayor of said city
be and is hereby authorized and directed to
sign and execute the following contract on
the part of Salt Lake city, and the recorder
of said city is hereby authorized to attest
the same with his signature and the corpo-
rate seal of said city, and to deliver the
same whenever it is properly executed by
all the parties thereto. Said agreement to
read as follows:
This agreement, made in triplicate, and
entered into by and between Salt Lake
city, a municipal corporation within the
county of Salt Lake, in Utah territory, and
the Salt Lake City Gas company, corpo-
ration existing under the laws of said ter
ritory, with its principal place of business
in said city, county and territory, and the
Salt Lake Power, Light and Heating com
pany, corporation existing under the
laws aforesaid, with its principal place of
business in the city, county and territory
aforesaid, witnesseth.
That Whereas, said city and said Gas
company did mutually enter into con-
tract on or about February s. 1887, by the
terms of which it was mutually agreed that
said company should furnish gas, and
light, extinguish and keep in repair GER
tain of the city street lamps, for lighting
the streets of said city at certain specified
prices, and that said city should pay the
said specified prices for said services for
the whole period embraced in said con
tract. to-wit: from January /, 1887 to
March s, 1898: and,
Whereas said Gas company has hereto
fore, in communication is said city dated
April II. 1889, offered to waive part Of
said contract to-wit: the uneXpired term
thereof, which relates to lighting the city
street lamps of said city, without claim for
costs or damages against said city; pro-
vided said city would make an agreement
with the Salt Lake Power, Light and
Heating company to substitute an electric
arc light at the intersection of the large
blocks, over the area lighted by gas street
lamps, at the same cost price over the same
area as was then paid to said Gas COM
pany for said gas lamps and in lieu of said
gas lamps, the said Gas company confirms
said waiver by the signing of this agree
ment: and
Whereas. On the 18th of April, 1889, said
Salt Lake Power, Light and Heating COM
pany, petitioned said city to allow it to sub
stitute said arc lights for street lighting as
aforesaid in lieu of the said gas lamps over
the same area, also to furnish the poles
wire, arc lamps, and all other apparatus fol
the streets necessary to operate said cleo
trio lights at its own expense, provided the
city would make a contract with said Sail
Lake Power, Light and Heating company
to continue said lighting service ION &C
count of the heavy outlay necessary. for
period of ten (i0) years. Whereupon, the
city council of said city, at it's session o
April %, 1889, granted said petition.
In pursuance of which grant said Sal
Lake Power, Light and Heating company
has built the necessary additional works
purchased and set up the necessary line o
poles, set the wire, cross arms, and ar
lamps dynamos and all the apparatus re
quired for the successful operating an
burning of said arc lights, has covered tn
area aforesaid with arc lamps which ar
now, and have been for some weeks in sue
cessful operation, and has added such othe
lines of electric street lighting as hav
been ordered by SAID city, covering in all
at the present time, an area OF street
lighted thereby Of about twenty-five pc
cent. more than the area formerly lighte
by the gas lamps said area being coTere
with fifty-fve (55) arc lamps, which, wit
fifteen addition lamps already ordered
makes total of seventy arc lamps.
Now, therefore. in consideration of tn
premises, and Of the power Of the city [
contract for street lighting being Unite
by law to term of three years, and i
consideration of the sum of 81 to each @
the said parties hereto. it is hereb
mutually agreed by and between said Sal
Lake city and said Salt Lake Power, Ligh
and Heating company, that said city
within thirty days from the date hereo1
will order the erection and running c
:. thirty additional arc lamps, making on
A. hundred arc lamps in all, which shall nc
- be required to be over seven hundred an
ninety two feet apart, the distance herett
fore adopted, and said Salt Lake Powe
Light and Heating company is hereby Ell
gagged to furnish, operate and ~
\ said one hundred arc lights fl
~ the full period of three year
nj from and after January !, 1890, and sal
o city agrees to pas SAID Salt Lake Powe
NJ Light and Heating company, fifteen (sl5.0I
~ dollars per month for each and every or
:, of said are lamps during the whole peric
ar of three years aforesaid, and in consider
ct ton of the premises, the said Salt LAX
L. Power, Light and Heating company pro1
"A Uses aud agrees with said city that it wi
IL erect and maintain the said arc lamps,
al above provided, during the full periC
r aforesaid, for the consideration and amour
es hereinbefore stated: said lights to be ke
burning during the hours annually printt
in the Philadelphia moon schedule f
lighting streets, except on dark clouC
a nights, when said lamps shall invariab
~ be lighted at the usual hour for lighting
IS, the dark of the moon.
er- In witness whereof, the said Salt Lal
n city has caused its corporate name to
Oh hereunto attached by its mayor and its &C
ey porate seal to be hereunto affixed by its 1
tie corder, and the said Salt Lake Powe
cir Light and Heating company has caused
L. corporate name to be hereunto attached
its president, and its corporate seal to
hereunto affixed by It's secretary. and t
said Salt Lake City Gas company b
caused its corporate name to be hereun
. attached by its president, and its corpo
:. ate seal to be hereunto affixed by its seer
m tary, this -- day of -- A.
M. 1890.
m Adopted January 81, A. d. 1890.
m. FRANCIS ARMSTRONG,
m. Aftacf. Mavor