, 1892-02-06
THE LAND SOLD,
Blanchard's Syndicate I o Get the
Designated CITY PROPERTY.

blduCndIQgt SIuulCdtc 10 Sel the
Designated CITY Property.
A special meeting of the city council
was held last evening with Mayor
Bresnahen in the chair. There were
present Messrs. Bond, Heilman, Bristol,
Riner and Talbot.
l. Greentree presented to the council
the petition Of $50 taxpayers in regard to
the city land and also the resolution with
regard to the same adopted by the citi-
zen's mass meeting held in the opera
house.
Councilman Riner then presented the
following which was unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS. Ben Blanchard and asso-
clates have made a proposition to the
city of Cheyenne to purchase from it GER
tain real estate now belonging to said city,
to-wit: Eighty acres in section 30,
township IA north. range 66 west of tie
sixth principal meridian, more ~particu-
larly described as lying In W of e ! Of
sec. 80, and to pay therefor the sum OF
81. so per acre, and
WHEREAS. The citizens and tax payers
OF the said city of Cheyenne in mass
meeting assembled, on the evening of
Thursday, the 4th day of February, A. D.
1892, fixed the valuation on said lands at
81. so per acre, and
WHEREAS, At the mass meeting afore-
said the citizens and taxpayers of said
city unanimously adopted the following
resolutions:
Resoiued. BY the citizens and tax
payers of the City of Cheyenne in mass
meeting assembled, that it is the sense OF
this meeting that the city should sell to
Ben Blanchard eighty acres of and out of
section 30. township IA north. of range &c
west, at the government price of 50. so
per acre.
RESOLVED. That the honorable mayor
and members of the city council be and
they are hereby respectfully requested to
sell said land. And,
WHEREAS, The said Ben Blanchard
agrees to cause to be built and operated a
smelter. in or near the City of Cheyenne,
for the reduction of precious metals, and
employ not less than 300 men; said
smelter or building to cost at least three
hundred ard sevcuty-ive thousand
dollars 1915, 000. 00). The buildings to
include az much room as the Grant
smelters in Denver, to be built either of
brick, stone or corrugated iron. The
capacity to be not so great in all respects
a. the Grant smelter. The work to be
commenced upon said buildings within
sixty days from the date of contract for
building of smelter and to he pushed to
completion as soon as practicable. There.
fore, be it
ResoiUed. BY the city council of the
city of Cheyenne that the aforesaid PROMO
sition of the said Ben Blanchard and his
associates be accepted and that the said
land he sold to the said Ben Blanchard
and associates upon the following terms
and conditions. VIZ: That the said Ben
Blanchard or his associates shall pay to
the said city of Cheyenne as soon as good
and sufficient deed ia made out and de-
livered to the said Ben Blanchard or his
associates the sun of 80. so per acre.
Second, That said Ben Blanchard and
associates shall complete the said smelter
WV ahk w hio pkiSOHhOht 40 dDONO btt
forth. And be it further
Resolued, That the deed by said city to
said Ben Blanchard and his associates for
said property shall not be delivered to
said Ben Blanchard and his associates IN
til the material for the erection and con-
struction of the said smelter is upon the
ground and tho work commenced upon
the said buildings; said material to be free
from all liens and membranes; and not
until the said Ben Blanchard and his as
s%ociates shall give a good and sufficient
bond in the sun of 5000. 900 that said
smelter shall be completed as above set
forth; said bond to be given to a person
or persons to be hereafter designated.
And be it further
Resolued. That the aforesaid deed to
to said property shall be made out and
placed in escrow in the hands of such
person or committee as NAV be designated
! by the executive committee of the Board
of trade Of the city of Cheyenne. and to
be delivered to said Ben Blanchard or his
associates upon his complying with the
aforesaid terms and conditions.