The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-19
The Proceedings.

A. F. Whitney and others asked that
the taxes against Mrs. Hannah Willard
be RENTED. she being old, infirm and
destitute.
Referred to the city attorney.
Caleb Luker, by his attorneys, aceep-
ted $3.50 in settlement of his claim for
damages to his property on account of
the gravity sewer construction injuring
| 1T.
| Referred to the board of public
works.
The complaint of Carl Mach3ld gainst
DIR. Garrett. the live stock inspector,
the details of which were published in
The Herald of yesterday Was reed.
Referred to the committee on SAN
Iitary rules and quarantine.
Rudolph Aft and others ca"ed the
councils attention to a large Itol of
water which had been formed from the
surplus canal at the point ui l'itersec-
ton with the Redwood load and the
new race track and stated that such
was a menace to life and property.
Committee on Salt Lake and Jordan
canal
THE BUILDING ORDINANCE.
Building Inspector Folsom sem in a
communication recommending that the
Ordinance specifying the material to be
used in erecting buildings wiinin the
Ihibit the erecting of any tent ;,t any
place within the city limits except by
permission of the inspector
| Committee on municipal laws
NEEDS A HORSE.
| Provision Inspector McAllister rep
resented to the council that he found it
impossible to discharge his duties with
lout the use of a horse, and asked that
The be permitted to keep one at the city
! stables.
Committee on sanitary rules and
Quarantine.
GRAVITY SEWER LAND.
| Chairman Doremus, of the board OIL
public works, recommended on be-
half of the board the purchase of
strip Of land one rod wide and forty
rods long at $3.50 per rod along the
gravity sewer between Folsom's and
the Hot Springs.
Adopted.
CITY CREEK WATER POWER.
The city engineer reporting on the
Ipracticability of using the water pow yer
of City Creek for generating power TO
run an electric light plant in accord
Iance with the resolution introduced by
Councilman Mason, stated that accord
ing to measurements made in August,
1890, there were 7,119,40S gallons; in De-
icember of the same year, 4,233 400 gal
lions, while to obtain the full 1ntorma-
ltion desired would involve an eApendl-
iture of about $3.50.
The report was filed.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
Liquor licenses were issued to the
following parties: M. &. Smoot, q.
IL. c. M. l., Salt Lake Brewing COM
Ipany, G. C. Merritt, Riley e Flood, Ho-
lyle Bros, and James Stephenson.
FRANCHISE EXTENDED.
The report of the committee en- NUM-
lcipal laws to whom was referred the
matter of extending the time allowed
the Big Cottonwood Power company to
have equal TO 1000 horse power of cleo
ltricity in the city from October ]. 1894.
Ito October 1, 1895. reported recommend
ing that the extension be granted. The
report was adopted.
THE BILL POSTERS.
The committee to whom was re-
lferred the communication of the West
iern Bill Posting company asking for a
modification of the recently enacted or
ldinance prohibiting the erecting of
Hacked board fences of a greater height
than six feet nearer the sidewalk than
ten feet, reported recommending that
the ordinance be modified so as TO ad-
init of the fences being erected to a
height of ten feet on the line of lots
and next to the sidewalk but with the
restriction that such fences shall be
|subject to the approval of the building
inspector
CITY CREEK POWER AGAIN.
Mason called up his resolution pro-
viding that the city engineer be in
Istructed to make a thorough survey of
Parley's canyon and the waters of the
!creek with view of ascertaining for a
certainty whether there was power
Ienough to run an electric light plant
Ito be used for street lighting. Mr.. Ma
son pleaded earnestly for the passage
of the resolution and thought that $500
FUSED for that r''~-rse would be money