Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-24

be covered over. Committee ON Jor.
dan canal and irrigation.
HARRY GOT not.
The recorder submitted bond from
the Salt Lake Stradamant company
guarantee for the proper paving Of
tho intersection OF State and Fiutsouih
streets. lie said It was given To him
by Henry McCallum, secretary Of the
company, who declared ho didn't give
d--n what became Of II IA long as II
WIS made matter OF record. Laid
on lhe table.
BigsoN wII1iDRAws
Wendell Benson sent Ia the follow.
ing communication Withdrawing his
application for gas and electric light
franchise;
Gcnilomon-S Some seven months since
! presented 10 your honorable body
D n itiou asking that u franchise be-
rtautod mo 10 manufacture aud sell gas
900 his city, whereby ] agreed To light no
tiiy buildings froc of charge aud to furn.
ish gas az a per cent not TO exceed sl.15
pr ono thousand foot also
nurpod 10 build Hu extensive
pnnl upon which work should he com.
uiUncod within ninety days, and COM
pie ed within eighteen months amor tho
acceptance Of franchise or same should
tc forfeited.
further verbally agreed to ole bond
iur any reasonable sum Tor tho faithful
Performance 81 the conditions OF snd
franchise, bond TO bo tiod and accepted
Had this franchise been granted 10 mo It
would have resulted In tho expenditure
of some 100000 aud given employment
81 many Of the lido mon Of tho city. 10
would also have saved tho city corpora
ton some 5000 or 5000 per year now
Tnil Tor lighiin tho city buildings aud
would have saved from $4,000 10 $4,000
r1f year to tho consumers " gas.
My petition upon one prctoxt or an
other has been referred 10 various COM
miiico. laid upon tho table aud
put OIL from timo 20 Time up 10 the pros
Ont date. In tho meantime you have
fcon ~ to grant TO foreign corporation
what Il virtually now franchise cover
ing twenty-five years which allows thom
10 charge $50 per one thousand cubic
foct Tor gas, and an oNorhiiant price Tor
electric lights. This franchise aud tho
olty's contract with tho English COM
pany compol- tho city 10 pay thon 500
per month tor lighting tho city buildings
which offered 10 light free.
Any private corporation would have
gladly awaited themselves Of my
proposition a. strictly business ono.
by not granting other franchises YOU
have virtually gwen the present com.
pany monopoly Of the gas and electric
light business In this city, nj an advance
OF twenty-five pcr cont In tho price Of
gus over the price OF which | ulioTOd to
HmTflHh lFtfa d ha
romunny present OF tho amount paid
10y tho city corporation Tor lighting
buildings
You we're elected by tho people OF this
city 10 look after their Interests; do YOU
clutller you have done 20 la this mattor?
loing convinced that cannot rocoivu
ia'r treatment 90 your hands, bog leave
tp Withdraw from the tlcs my applica-
tiun for franchise and allow your con-
sutuonts 90 be- the Judges as TO whether
you have acted for thoir bosi interests or
moi
some OF the councllmen WINGED
v.sibly under Mr.. Bonsou'a aTrhing.
ment aud denied that they had dis.
eliminated ngaintt him. The matter
WIS finally referred to the committee
on municipal laws.
FOR An EsIIMATE As TO COST.
The committee on streets recon-.
monded that the petition OF A. NJ.
Melon and others asking Tor the im.
provement on seventh East street be
referred TO the city engineer for an
estimate OF cost.
sTAdNANT FOND.
IN regard 10 the slagnant pond near
the intersection OF First South street
and Jordan river the COMMITTEES on
sanitary rules aud quarantine fegula.
iious, reported that it WAS not possible
10 drain the pond into the river, and
recommended that 1t be- filled up.
Adopted.
WANT TO INCREASE TIlE TAXES.
Coucilmen Kelly and Beardsley pre-.
Hrnled the following IA members Of |
800 committee on ways and means:
lh the matter OF the nts OF taxation |
TO, mo present year, We would recon. |
"Vtd 90 follows; From the fact IA |
Tao rluniy assossor, In an official com. |
unniraIiuui Informs Us that the az. |
itrtm eht for this year only amounts |
Coo H. 100000, u decrease uf some so
uUU,uuJ from last years asstssment, we |
i.ud that II will he necessary TO raiae |
The rate one mill above last years
ia'e' making fix mills 10 raise the
hluoGut OF our tax receipts TO tue
tmolut rtoliz d last year. We have
consulted several OF our largest prom.
'Ily owners, anu they nf0 VI the
shune opinion az your committee, that
u would be impossible to get along
WIN "A less amount ami carry out
lho contracts already entered into.
ne county ralehs ten mills 0ud with
'ht ciiy's rate cfsix mills, will make
'p'al VI sixteen MILF, tic same rs last
Arnr on loss valuation. We there
r' recommend that tho rate Of taxa.
ou 'or the yeaf 1893 be lxcd by tlns
20 uncil At the rite Of six mills on each
81 M upon thA assessed valuation
"i'h'n the corp1hte limits.
FROM POLAND.
tOland filed thp following minority
lri uri;
81 have not had an opportunity of
NOViinu with the halnnce al M.