Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-26
CITY COUNCIL.
Gas Stock to be sOId.-City Scarenger
and Engineer.

The City Council met in reeula
session last evening, Mayor Scot
presiding. Three quarters Of an houl
We're spent in reading the minutes
L. NJ. Earl and Others petitioned
for an extension OF the water main,
on F Street Referred to the com,
mittee on waterworks.
A. Bonheim asked permission tc
erect fruit stand on the Cunning.
ton corner. Hall objected to the
granting Of this and like requests
without the written consent Of the
owner and occupant Of the property,
and so moved. Carried.
]. a. Groesbeck and a. Miner
represented that the bridge across
the .culvert on North Temple Street
WIS unsafe and too narrow to accom-
modate the traffic, and asked to have
a new and wider bridge placed there.
Pembroke moved to refer the mat
ter to the street supervisor, with in
structions TO build the bridge at
once. Lost and the matter referred
to the committee on streets.
II. Stringham and others petition
ed to have the grade on South
Temple Street established from
East Temple to Third East. Re-
ferred to the committee on streets.
i. q. Bywater represented that he
had been Seriously injured by the
falling ola bank at the city gravel
beds, and asked for $3.50 as
damages. Referred to the COM
mittee on claims.
e. 5. Wilkes and others represent
ed that the canal on Seventh East
Street, between Second and Thinl
South, was in dangerous condition,
and asked that it lie funnel. Re
ferred to the committee on Salt
Lake & Jordan Canal.
C.S. Wilkes petitiOned for leave
10 fiume the canal where il passes
through n lot on which he is about
TO build. Referred to the same
committee.
Catherine Morris represented
that she was n poor widow, So years
old, and unable to pay the water
tax assessed against her, and that a |
notice had been posted on her prop |
erty that it would be sold March q
unless the tax was paid. She asked |
that the tax be remitted. Referred
10 the committee on watergorks.
The Rio Grande Western, by w.
II. Bancroft, superintendent, petit
toned for the permanent use for
tricks OF n portion Of Sixth West
Street, between Second and Fourth
South, and proposed 10 grade and
gravel Seventh West and several
other streets in that neighborhoOd,
on condition that the petition be
granted. Accompanying this pc
tition were the signatures Of all
owners who, il was claimed,
were directly interested in tine mat
ter; also n diagram of the streets in
that locality. Referred to a special
OF five 10 be named later
1y the Mayor.
l.. P. Kelsey, W. s. Mccormick
and J. f. Dooley petitioned to have
the sidewalks on a numher Of streets
Inf and near theN business centre
paved. Referred TO the committee
On improvements.
a number of residents of Canyon
Road and vicinity asked 10 have
more electric lights put up in that
locality. Referred 20 the same COM
nittee.
Newton Leonard petitioned that
garbage wagons be provided 10 make
regular trips through the streets.
refuse, etc. Tabled.
4 Mrs. Williams asked for a new
Iced to correct an error in n previ-
1us one. Referred to the committee
On public grounds
w. ]. Newman asked to be al
Owed to purchase a piece Of land on
Eleventh West Street, between I
South Temple and Second North
Referred 10 the same committee.
George a. Lowe aud others petit
Toned to have paving districts
bounded as set forth in
he petition, under the provisions OF
Ak[4GAASA 4
% the committee on improvements.
l.. q. Hanty and A. G. Young
iskeI to have Fifth South Street :
opened, between Tenth and Elev-
enth East, which they represented
was improperly closed. Referred TO
he committee on streets.
a petition signed by all or nearly
III the green-grOcers in town asked
he removal Of all fruit stands from ,
he streets, and that only farmers
who sell what they raise themselves
,e allowed to peddle green groceries {
n the city. Referred to the com
nittee on license. 4 motion to re- ,
er the matter TO the committee on
treets was resisted by Mr.. James,
Who said that committee had already
n hand all the work it could do for I
eveTal weeks.
Several merchants asked leave 10
ay stone walk across Main Street
opposite the Hooper & Eldredge
Granted.
The Salt Lake Literal Band AS :
eciation. per NJ. II. Evans, man. ,
yer, asked leave TO give sacred con- :
,erts on Sunday evenings, and TO !
'haTge therefor admission fees Of !
s cents and 50 cents. Referred TO ,
he committee on municipal laws.
o. A. Woolley and "a others Pc !
itioned against tho leasing Of
Square to anyone. Ia
iled, for the reason that the COM
nit:ee on public grounds have in
land two other like petitions.
G. +. PomerOy and eleven Others
.sked that Vine Street he improved,
Ind distractions removed from it. !
Referred to the committee On :
treets.
James Hegney and Others repre- :
ented that certain sidewalks in the
Of the X. G. w. depot /
we're impossible, and asked that {
hey be improved. Referred TO the Z
on streets. !
*. z. Schroeder asked that an |
be given him TO COM
'ete in furnishing electric lights TO {
he city. Referred 10 the commit I
ee on improvements.
+. IL. Dyer and others asked that
first West Street between Seventh I
nd Eighth South be improved. Re :
erred 10 the committee on streets.
+. ID. Kelly and others asked
rave TO lay private water pipes to :
heir residences. Referred to the a
on waterworks.
The city attorney reported on the :
natter of the grading Of railroad c
racks in the streets, putting down ,
'lank crossings over them, etc., /
the conditions in regard to d
his matter under which different :
had been given to the S. q
!. 4 F. ID. r. r. He had been I'M y
bic to find any record Of a franchise l
wen 10 or agreement made with =
he Utah Genital or Union Pacific, n
he Utah & Nevada or the r. CIV. c
Under the contract with the first y
AIMED it could hecompelled to put :
nd keep its tracks in order, and the
,ouncil had power 10 compel all Il