Little Falls transcript., 1892-06-24
Fridays Daily.
The City Council.


The regular adjourned meeting c
the city council took place last night
all members being present. The oh
ject OF the meeting being primarily t.
receive bids for the sale of the $50,
WW bonds for sewerage purposes
-Four bids were received in writing
One was by A. R. Davidson of Littl
Falls, who offered to take the bonds
running for 80 years, per cent inter
lest, payable semi-annually, interes
and principle payable in gold at New
York City, at par, he to be allowed
$3.50 for handling the money.
That OF Lampricht Bros. & Co., O.
Cleveland, o.. was for the same con
ditions, except the rate would be
per cent. For these they would pay
a premium of $500 and wanted q
commission of $500.
Geo. A. Lewis & Co., Chicago
would take them at par and wanted
$500 commission
| W. L. Hayes & Sons of Cleveland,
o., would take them at par and &C.
crued interest, less commission OF
2 1-l6 per cent.
On motion of AID. Maban, seconded
by Aid: Rider, the bid of A. R.David-
for the preparation Of the bonds.
| ing between the council and the
| officials of the Electric & Water COM
pany regarding the water to be used in
flushing the sewers when put in Mr..
Jno. A. Berkey appeared before the
body and explained the matter. He
said that the company did not
feel like donating such an amount of
water as would be required for flushing
sewers. He did not recall saying that
the contract should have contained a
section requiring this, as alleged by
some of the members, but if
he had made such statement, it could
not certainly hold good under this new
system which the6lty proposed putting
in. While the Warning system Of
sewerage was much cheaper than any
other, the sewers were flushed every
|8, IL or "a hours and taking the
maximum time as a basis it would
require $50 gallons to the tank, and
allowing 8 tanks on the present system,
as proposed, it would take 1,16S,0O0 gall
Ions, or 1922 worth of water every year.
On motion of Aid. Butler. Aid. Rider
was made committee to visit Dayton,
Ohio, and other points to observe the
working Of the marring systim of sewers.
The matter of as to who must pay for
sewers being discussed it was found that
the charter called for the payment Of the
value of the whole improvement by the
abutting property on both sides Of the
streets. 1t was also learned that the
assessment was was made at so much
per front foot without regards to the
value of the property, and it was decid-
p1 that cOma action ShOul6 no taL kan tO
secure the passage at the next session of
the legislature OF an act enabling the
city to collect the value OF an assessment
more.
The City Attorney was instructed to
draft an ordinance, changing the names
of the streets and numbers. The plan
outlined in the Transcript of Wednes-
day will probably be adopted. Oak
street, after being changed to Broadway
will probably be the dividing line be-
tween north and south and the river
east and west. A resolution was adopt
ed authorizing E. z. Weller to make
plats of the city without any expense
and to permit him to number houses.
The city attorney was authorized to
draw an ordinance making it nuisance
to allow cattle to run at large day or
night in the city limits.
The light which had been granted to
the West side some weeks ago was Or
dered placed at the intersection Of First
ave. and II streets, being near Bottom
Bros. store The light at thr paper mill
was ordered removed to near the gate
house, as more centrally located
On motion the council adjourned to
the 3Oth inst.