Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-25
CITY TRUSTEES.
BIDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF o
STREET OPENED.
A Sewer in Bad Condition-Protest
Against Suburban Grog-Shop
Other Matters,

The City Board of Trustees met yester.
day morning. Present-Mayor Comstock
and Trustees Mclaughlin and Wolf
The Chief Engineer of the Water Works
reported that last week 23,o53 600 gallons
OF water were pumped, the Holly pump
running sixty. one hours and the Stevens
pump eight hours.
petition was received, signed by prop
erty-owners on L street, from Fifteenth to
Twenty-eighth, demonstrating against the
grading of the street. Laid over one week.
The following bonds were received and
approved: Bond of Fire Commissioner
William Beckman in the sum of $4,000,
with David Johnston, j. L. Huntoon, A. l..
Hart and John Watt as sureties; bond of
Fire Commissioner M. Howard in the sum
OF $4,000, with William Mitchell, Lee
Stanley, Phil Herzog and Michael Fav as
sureties; bond of City Attorney E. c. Hart
in the sum of $50 000 with c. c. Brown, H.
A. Hornlein, George Newman and Peter
Newman as bondsmen.
A petition was received asking that the
proposed improvement and grading of o
street, from Tenth TO Twenty first, be post.
poned until the new street improvement
company shall be organized and ready for
business. The names of the signers to the
petition were read, and d. A. Lindley, who
happened to be present, remarked that if
the property-owners were so anxious that
the new company should start in business,
they had better sign their names and
become members. He had noticed only
two names of persons on the petition who
had taken any interest in the matter of
forming the proposed company for the i'm
provement of the streets.
The petition was ordered on file.
Bids were then opened for improving o
street, from Tenth to Twenty first. The
contractors submitting bids were z. A. Mil
Ter, H. G. Ewing and Bassett G. Touhey
The awarding of the contract was deferred
until next Monday. The lowest bid was
that OF II. G. Ewing, which was as follows:
Scraper work, 10 cents per cubic yard; ex-
cavations, 10 cents; gravel, 81 20 per yard
curbing. Is cents per foot; round corners,
81 so each; paving, II cents per square
loot; cross walks ~ cents per ineal foot;
culyerts and aprons, S2S per 900 feet;
catch basins, $35 each; inch pipe, so cents
per lineal foot.
Bids for grading the alley in the blocks
bounded by Second and Third, L and NJ
streets, and and X, Fifth and Sixth streets,
were opened, and the awarding of the con-
tract laid over one week.
There were two bids on the Mayors table
for furnishing coal for the Water Works.
Trustee Mclaughlin moved that they be
not opened for one week, and that the ad-
vertisement be continued in the papers, in
order that more bids might be received
So ordered.
Nm. Denton appeared before the Board
ana in behalf of the people living on P
street. between Twenty-fifth and Twenty
sixth, asked that the license granted to the
party running a saloon on the corner of
Twenty sixth and P street be revoked and
the place closed.
Trustee Mclaughlin suggested that the
matter be referred to the Chief of Police,
with instructions to report to The Board
next Monday.
]. Devine asked that the Board order the
sewer repaired in the alley between X and
L, Seventh and Eighth streets. He stated
that in its present condition the water was
backed up, causing considerable damage to
adjoining property. The matter was re-
ferred to Trustee Mclaughlin.
No further business appearing the Board
adjourned.