The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-21

that the petition be granted, and it was
SO ordered.
GAS FRANCHISE
GRANTED.
The bill for an ordinance granting a
franchise to the new American Natural
Gas and Fuel company was taken UP
as amended by the committee and pub
lished in The Herald of yesterday. The
ordinance was read the requisite num-
Der of times and passed.
CEMETERY AFFAIRS.
The city sex .oa submitted rain sug-
gestions to facilitate the operations of
the cemetery department and to- make
the city.
The suggestions We're that
the reservoirs be connected
with the high pipe line on Eleventh
East street TO improve the irrigation
system 1t was pointed out that 600
lots have besn sold above the water
line at $12 per lot, while lots within
the water district have advanced
from $15 and $40 to $50 and $780, and
that there are other lots which might
be plated out which would net $4,000
extra to the city. The communication
stated the outlay would be merely nom
inal, and Incidentally mentioned that
the department was i'm need of another
horse, as one of the two they had was
no longer capable of doing the work
required of it. Referred to the COM
mittee on cemetery.
OWING BY THE COUNTY.
From Auditor Raybould the following
was received:
Il beg to inform you that there is
oil l,1
assessment of 1893 for tax sales $7,195.64
that your honorable body take some
action to recover the same"
Committee on finance.
The board of public works, in the
matter of the petition Of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company for
permission to lay cross walks opposite
their new building on State street,
recommend that the petition be not
granted, but that the pavement be re-
placed as it was originally intended,
as per agreement with the Telephone
company.
Adopted.
FROM THE POLICE AND FIRE
COMMISSIONERS.
The Police and Fire Commissioners
called attention to the absence of a
suitable building in which to keep the
police patrol wagon, horses, hay, grain.
ETC., for use in the police depa rtment,
and suggested that the board be auth
orized to replace the present inadequate
lumber building with a brick structure
to cost $500.
Referred to the committee on police
and fire.
The Board of Police and Fire Com
missioners stated that the room in the
cd city hall to be used as the Office
of the commission is practically with
out desks or furnishings and asked
whether the necessary articles should
be purchased by the board or whether
the furniture ordered for the use of the
board of police and fire commissioners
for the new city hall is subject to the
order of the board.
Referred to the committee on police
and fire departments.
WATER MAINS EXTENSIONS.
The committee on waterworks recon,
mended that the petition of H. ]. Riv,
ers and others for an extension Of
water mains on Seventh West street
south from Cannon street to the soutf
line of lot 81, be granted. Adopted.
The same committee recommends
that the water mains at U and FRS
streets be extended ten rods on FRS
street Adopted.
The same committee recommends
that Superintendent of Water works
Daley be authorized to cover, so as tC
protect from frost, 11S5 feet of water
pipes. Adopted.
LIQUOR LICENSES.
Liquor licenses were granted to Do
nninico Plescio, NJ. Fitzgerald, jaime:
| Hegney and W. H. Hofheimer.
ATTENDED TO.
The committee on sewerage STATED
| that the petition of Mrs. Wach. pray
| ing for a removal of rubbish from th
digging of the gravity sewer in from
of her store. was being attended to bl
the board of public works and the cit.
engineer. Similar requests were made
in regard to the petitions of Moore
! Benson and othreS.
SIDEWALK ASSESSMENTS.
The committee on finance recon-