The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-13

report to the council upon what terms 1t
would put in 200 electric street lights, as
needed by the city.
PREPARING FOR THE STORM.
Mainland offered the following:
That the city recorder be directed to ascer-
tain by correspondence and report to thecoun-
Gil statement showing the basis of valuations
and rate Of taxation for 1892 in the cities OF
Seattle. Tacoma. Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Denver ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Sioux
City, Omaha, Kansas City and twenty other
western cities.
He said he knew there would be howl
from the minority when the taxes for 1892
were levied, and he wanted to prepare for
ito cast an anchor to the windward.
Adopted.
NEW sPRINKLINe DISTRICT.
| An ordinance, introduced by Ewing,
making a new sprinkling dis trict, was re-
| ferred to the special street sprinkling COM
mittee.
TO HAUL GARBAGE.
A contract with the Rio Grande Western
for the hauling of the garbage OF the city
at the rate of $40 for the first car daily and
$40 for each additional car was read. The
contract provided that the company should
! be paid $40 per day whether anything was
hauled or not. The mayor was authorized
to sign the contract, to exist for period
of ninety days, provided that the company
did not charge for Mondays, when no cars
would be sent out.
PETITIONS TO BE NUMBERED.
| Hardy offered a resolution providing that
| all petitions shall be numbered and then
come up in their order. He said too many
petitions had been pigeonholed. Adopted.
BRIGHAM YOUNG TRUST COMPANY.
POLAND offered the following:
Resolved, That the assessor and collector be
instructed to relieve the Brigham Young Trust
company from the street and sidewalk taxes
assessed against said company for the paving,
curplng and guttering taxes OF ffty-SlX llneal
feet on State street and for 1fty-SiX lineal feet
on Commercial street, upon receiving from
SAID company O duly executed deed satisfactory
10 the city attorney TO the city, for the use OF IT'D
inhabitants, of street f1fty-siX feet wide, eX-
tending from State TO Commercial street, said
deed to be made subject TO leases now existing
on the south twenty-five feet of said proposed
street, and reserving to the said Brigham
Young Trust company the right to collect and
use the rents on said leased premises until the
expiration OF the term.
BIG INCREASE FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The report Of the committee on fire de-
| partment, increasing the expenses about
S3I5 per month, came up.
POLAND opposed it, and he, Hardy,
Simondi and Beardsley voted against the
GREEN STREET AND PROSPECT PARK.
The committee on streets recommended
that the petition asking that Green street
be opened be referred to the city engineer
for report. Adopted.
| That the plat of Prospect Park be &C
cepted and the city engineer authorized to
approve the same. Adopted.
AS TO REPAIRING STREETS
The same committee recommended that
the following be adopted
We recommend that 1t be declared the gen.
eral policy of this council that the cost
of bringing streets to permanent grade and i'm
| proving the same shall be on the assessment
plan according TO the law now in force covering
the work OF paving and other Improvements.
Rich objected to the adoption of the re-
port of the committee, because he thought
II was unjust to the people livingin the out
skirts
POLAND also registered vigorous kick.
Wantland championed his pet scheme,
and Horn said me too."
The report-Was finally adopted.
THE BOYS MUST TRAMP.
The committee on police submitted the
following:
Whereas, There are only eight regular police
officers on each Shift and Shift is eight hours,
and
Whereas. The peace and good order of the
city largely depends on the constant presence
and vigilance OF the Police, therefore be it
Resolved That the city marshal belnstructed
10 require each officer to be in constant march
over his beat, except At such times the duties
OF his Office require his services in other ways.
Ewing moved to lay the resolution on
the table, but his motion failed, and after
some little discussion the mayor said he
would certainly see that the police did
their duty, whether the resolution passed
or not.
POLAND called the attention of the mayor
, to the fact that the city attorney had de-
, cided that the mayor had no right to dis
charge policeman.
The Mayor Well, 1 think have and
shall certainly exercise that power, until l
hear further. If have not the power now
, l will have after the 1st Of May.
Rich-The resolution simply tells the
policemen that the council is working in
, harmony with the marshal.
The resolution was adopted, Ewing alone
voting no.
BRIGHAM STREET GRADE.
The committee on streets recommended
that, in accordance with the petition of M.
c. Fox, the south side of Brigham street
: be graded tina: Brigham street, between
: State and Fifth East, be brought to per-
manent grade, and a retaining wall con-
structed as soon IS the property owners
r signify their Willingness to pay the pro-
portion of expense usual in such cases.
Adopted
D LAMP POSTS FOR STREET SIGNS.
The committee on improvements recon-
mended that in the matter OF placing street
, signs the gas lamp posts be used on the
principal streets. On all business streets
the signs are to be places on diagonal cor
ners, and the distance 10 be covered is as
5 follows: From Eighth West street to the
=: reservation on the east, from Fifth North
TO Ninth South, plat d, Seventh street tc
: the reservation.
: Adopted.
REPAIRING CANAL.
, The committee on Jordan canal reported
r on the matter of the Brighton and NORTH
S Point canal company and recommended
9 that the question OF repairing the same be
= referred 10 the watermaster and city en-
3 gineer TO report the approximate cost.
e Adopted.
y wANTLAND AFTER THE CANAL AGAIN.
e Wantland offered the following, which
: was adopted:
l. That the city engineer, watermaster and su.
o perintendent OF waterworks be requested to &C
= as a special committee and report to the coun
Q Gil the work and expense necessary to secure
: the additional water supply which will enable
the city to disco tinue the of the Salt LAKE
and jordan canal north of Ninth South street