Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-10
The Council Votes TO Buy
$4,000 Of Real Estate,
NEW SYSTEM OF BROKERAGE.
The Money Realized 10 be Used 10
Making Up tha Bonus 10
the COPPER PLANT PROTECTORS
A Lengthy aud wordy session Last
Night. a Bricf aud Busiuess.
like one Thia Morning.

There was n special meeting OF the
City Council held last night In re-
sponse TO u call which had been made
late In the afternoon. IL was held to
consider the question whether or not
the City Council could appropriate
$4,000 to the copper plant fund. Tho
eouucilmen present were: Rich, Fol-
land, Hardy, Horn, Bell, Lawson,
Evans, ssimondi, wantlasd, Helss.
The busiress men In attendance were:
Wendell Benson, John T. Donnellan,
J. IL. Gillespie, w. II. Rowe, J. IL.
Bacon, l.. l.. Terry, NJ. l.. Cummings,
G. T.. Mason, Jacob Moritg, w. 9. u.
Allen. Fred Heath, Frank Harris, W.
J. Lynch. Dr.. Hssbrouck, w. Il.
Hubb,rd, V. NJ. Meloy. II. w. Law.
renee, Frank Knox, IL. NJ. Wells, j.
Il. Calne, Il. l.. Kinney. j. W.
Whitehead, Jr., J. NJ. Ricketts,, Elch.
olas Treweek, Ell u. Kelsey, Gus
Holmes.
PRESIDENT LooFpoURow
called the meeting to order as follows:
conference.-the Is n sor, Of in'
,o,,ol ns.tiny of the CIV Council
asd certain other business mon TO dis.
tuss certain propositions which are
agitsting the public mind, the nature
OF which you know perhaps fully as
rh.
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meeunR VIII hot - upoh 'o'"'" IN
regular session. / now await your
,t,.as,,,.
Lawfon-I move tDat 'he on"lfrnhh
Of the special committee OF tho copper
.Ii,,od ia .,,J,os.us
phn. oe ".o"o" 'o"''
Colonel DOnnellAn-As chairman OF
,h. rhnmber of Conmerce committee
.,,,. 1870,
hrst pes Ien'e W 's"' '"o '"''V"i"s'
Whereaa. An effort IL being mndc by
tho entsrnriainp business men and citi-
yens of Salt Lake city to raiso tho sum
of slOO 900 by personal subscription, bo-
sides sum sufficient to purchase 1850 acres
OF lRnd-all to bo donated to parties pro-
posing to locate copper reduction works
IN or near our city, and
Whereas, said works Will cost not less
than sj0J,O0l, and VIII givc employment
To not less than 500 skilled operatives,
faid plant to ipclndo a copper snellor, u
separate cslabllshfnont Tor fchnlug cop
per matlo which Will DO drawn from
Butte, Mont, Durango, col., anu other
points. Also an establishment Tor tho
parting OF gold ana silver from the baser
metals and Tor tue manufacture OF copper
wire and sheet copper, Due Vitrlos anu
other chemicals; aud
our ely VIII necessarily leau 10 numerous
other connected industries ana WIN nave
controlling influence ~ masking OF Sal1
Lake Olty great manufacturing center,
thereby inhurihg inc iutufe prosperity OF
our city ana increasing It's taxable
wealth. therefore 20 re-.
msrce most earnestly recommend to tho
thnt an REORGANIZATION OF money bo made
ont Of the city treasury from monies not
otherwise appropriated, sum sufficient
to make good any deficiency that The
committee having said matter IN charge
may DO unable 10 secure from private
subscriptions Aforesaid.
II has boon suggested 20 this chamber
ina said appropriation mny not 90 Strict
~ conformity 20 uho nc. OF Iongress
anphg "u npp'op, ,.,s VI p"u,. ,,,
M hff,tts ihat lba sl4fn \ IN
nj this Industry m our midst would be in
the nature of a great and lasting public
Improvement. In this connection the
chamber ould most respectfully call tho
attention OF your honorable body TO the
fact that ono OF our neighooring cities has
recently appropriated Soo,VVOo i inc pupiic
inhds TO certain rallfosu company and
naIopy seouiuu ,ae ioua.o" W iurge nnu
nr5 ,nia ohamhar ba,,pvos ,h., sa,i
council aoIod wisely and for Tho hes,
interests OF their city. notwithstandinr
that their action may have been tech.
nically illegal, aud we urge their action
In the PROMISES rs commendablo and a
worthy example to DO followed by your
honorable body In the present case.
L. n. BACON
iaid that Tor four days he Ind been
WORKING most earnestly with other
business men to raise funds to secure
The s5OO,u00 copper plant. The city
had been canvassed from north TO
toutb, east and and " est, and they had
raised the sum of 500, 900. Ther, re-.
ntneu uenciehcy VI s1u,VUV. Uh'
front with s8o. O jO OF this sum hs knew
iull well that Salt Lake could not
teoure the plant. The entsrprise should
he made succ,seluI. Mormon ami
Gentle had been working TO that emu