The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-09-03
Council Proceedings.

The city council held their regular
meeting Tuesday evening at which
time considerable business was dis
posed of.
Several contracts made 81 tie board
of public works were confirmed.
The board reported the following
contracts incomplete and subject to
forfeiture penalties, varying from s.
to So per day:
J. Schoenborn, Tower avenue side
walk, June l.
Kelver 4 Burke, Catlin avenue grad
| ing, August l.
keiyer 4 Burke, Stinson avenue pay
ing, August Is
Kirkland & Starkey Betknab MATT
J sewer, August 10.
Keiver ( Burke, Lackaw;snna grad
ing, July l.
Wilson 4 Thatcher, North Sixth
paving, August 10.
i C. 5. Barker, Harbor District No. !,
dredgidg, August 1. ;v...
| c. S Barker, uughitt Slip dredgifig,
July l.
{. s. Barker, North Fourth street
grading, August j.
| Keiver s. Burke, North Nineteenth
grading, August l.
! A &. Townsend, fire hall, North
/ Sixth, August Is.
Wolf i King, nineteen catch basins,
July %.
NJ. Dalton. Wisconsin avenue grad
II. c. c. Burke, North Thirteenth
navinr A rrrsf
NJ. C. Burke, North Fourteenth paw
ing, August %.
Report referred to finance commit
tee.
Engineer Cooper having reported
! that Iowa and Ohio avenues could not
be paved without having sewers, AID.
Mcintyre moved that the original Sew
er contracts be let for slS,l7s. These
are for two sewers between Iowa and
Ohio and Ohio and Lackawanna,
emptying into the Belknap main
sewer. Carried.
, u. Il. McGinnis invited the mayor
and council to attend the Grand Forks
convention.
AID. Dundon moved that the mayor
and a committee appointed 10y him ac-
cept the invitation and that 5000 be
appropriated to pay their expenses.
| Capt. Barker'S proposition to pay
$50 for the use of the First street
| dock and be released from all damages
was accepted.
The poundmastcr was directed to
pay over to the city $74 as fees wrong
fully withheld.
AID. Smith requests that all appll-
cations for arc lights be sent in to him
as after September | gas on corners
where there is electricity Will be cut
| off
Engineer Cooper was ordered to sur
vey an extension of n orth Fifth street
to Bay street Aldermen Beglinger,
Bailey and Linnen were, appointed a
committee to decide Whether North
Fifth street should be opened as men
toned.
Alderman Norquist moved that
members of the charter revision com
mittee be paid So per day, but no one
| be permitted to receive more than SO.
| The committee consists of seven mem
bers-totai allowed, $52j. Aid. Dun
i don thought more lawyers might be
put on the committee in place Of mem
bers of the council but no action was
| taken.
AID. Bailey's resolution to pave
SiXtleth street between Tower and
! Cumming WAS passed. The street is
t" be turnpiked, not graded.
The board of public works was or
dered to report the cost of paving West
Twelfth street between OakeS and
John.
| The Western CEion Telegraph com
pany were given the right to put IN
poles SO as to reach the board of trade
with wires for furnishing the market
report.
AID. Barton's resolution for paving
avenue between Bay and West
Seventh streets was passed.
| AID. Bailey's resolution ordering the
street committee to remove all OBJ
structions from the sidewalks in the
city was passed.
Tie board of public works was in
structed to rebuild First street dock
at cost of 5000.
| Francis d Clarke of the CONSOLIDATE
ed Land Company asked the council to
exchange for or sell lot POO at the East
End OF which the old burned lookup
stands He offered 5000 cash or to eX-
| change on terms to be agreed upon.
He asked this because he wanted the
lot at once as part of a site for d
cooper shop for the Daisy, Listman
and Todd mills. Aid. Dundon thought
the price fair and even if it were not
it should be accepted because the land
was wanted for an enterprise and
enterprises were wanted by the people.
Mayor Scott and Clerk Van Week
were empowered to accept the offer
and execute the deed. The lot cost
$50 when purchased by the city.
The usual batch of bills was allowed
The Lake Superior Coal Company
was awarded the contract under bond
to furnish the city with coal as follows:
Egg stove and nut hard ..................6 II
Crate hard ................... 20
Small ,n;, la rd NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. :. .
Iarre D,.; ha rd Observation-Disclosures. 4. 81
Hooking screened lump, soft .............. SO
| SoumiiGrheny soft NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SO
Rrjpr Hill soft w .................. SD
The coal is to be delivered at any
time and any place as desired. The
other bids were from so to 80 cents per
ton higher AMI some of the bidders