The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-16

The fling of annual reports with the
mayor began yesterday, the treasurer,
city sexton. supervisor and city engineer
getting theirs in ere the time limit ex-
pired, while the city recorder, health de-
pertinent and others are coming up"
The report of the engineer and street
supervisor are the most exhaustive. as
will be seen.
The finances of the city are as set or
in the following:
Trensurer's Report. no a n
Balance Jan. l. 1891. 67
Recedpts per statement. 237 e6l 70 a N
Total. ....................sl 81, pa, 88S SO p n
Disbursements. ................ 1O22 641 ga q m
Balance Jan. /, 1S95........$ 221, 6g7 o. p N
Poll tax collections for the year have n
peen quite extensive as shown by the
report of the
Street Supervisor.
| Poll Tax
P Pa5d in in G 5a6or $,s ss9 Z
c,,. Total; Sass %
Cost OF collection. ................ 1858 So
Available for use. .sl8,621 s.
Cash paid in street work. 81 1S9 %
| Cash on hand. ........... 2173 40
! To collect this, suits were entered
aga1nst SS1 persons TOR non-payment, OF
which S315 was collected, while S375 is
now pending in judgments. Sixty-one
cases are pending while As have been
! Concluding his report on poll tax Mr..
4hulloy announces his intent9Cn TO begin
the work OF collection this year at a.
much earlier date than last.
| Street Department Statement.
| Receipts and Expenditures
/ Pay roll for labor. .......- roo 5aQ On
| Material .'....'..........,........ 5,57S OIL
Total. .........................s2 S,gn q
Pol tax in labor. Il, 800 90
| Water works. ....,.................. GAS 90
Liberty Park. ...................... 2l2 20
Grand total. II
Credits from all sources. 6.135 n
Net expenditure. OFT 10
| In the matter of suggestions the su-
| perVdsor recommends that South Temple
First and Second South leading to the
opinion that stone blocks are the best
material while. admitting that macad-
am is very good. AS a means of lessen
! ing me burdens of property owners who
/ v cul5 nave to pay for this paving by
tha front foot the supervisor suggests
centralizing poll tax labor upon these
streets, which would lessen the amount
| by about $4,000.
charging the department with prison Ia
Dor at 81 per day per head irrespective
Nuloy lays stress upon his omission Of
! this item from his report and says he
! will not include it without strong pro-
The supervisor recommends the paving
! OF Third South and South Temple be
| district IS not complete without 1t.
City sexton.
The annual report of C. Z. Angel, city
sexton, shows receipts from the city
cemetery for the year amounting to So,
OILS; Disbursements, $2,34952. The dam
gers to life and property heretofore at
I tending the descent from elevated plats,
continues the report, have been over
! come by the grading of a. new road; an
unsghtly ravine has been filled and 9TH
7 er improvements made. The report rec
omrnen1s additional facilities Tor irriga-
/ ton, eco lots having been SOLD above the
I present water line; lots under irriga ton
have advanced from $50 to $50, and from
$50 to $50. To realize all That the csTne-
terry offers the water supply must be i'm
I City Engineer.
! The city engineers report as very ex-
haustiYe and accordingly voluIn5nous.
The total expenditures OF the depart
cost of operating it S1619S.4 This is
followed by tables containing detailed
statements of public works carried or a
under the direction of the department.
( and in no month has the amount appor-
/ toned for its maintenance been eX-
! During the year the report shows that
! 1908 linear feet of sidewalk pavementS
were laid; prior to that time 196.075.4,
making total ON January /, 1895, OF
113S25.7 or Piss miles
! During the year permits were issued
for the setting of no poles upon the
lows: Electric light: 81; edectrict rail-
| way, g.; telephone, 81.
The work on the gravity sewer is re-
| viewed. the engineer pronoTncing most
( of it in good condition. as is also the
extension, maintenance and conditions Of
the pipe sewer system the working OF
which Inspector Evans pronounced high
! ly satisfactory. Of this latter 34S7 feet
were constructed during the year at a
cost of $4SS2 IS. The engineers report
concludes with long list of recon-
/ nentla,tions, among which are that sew
! tract under the board of public works;
I that public urinalS and toilet rooms be
provided at suitable locations through
out tine city; that the hauling Of gravel,
etc, over the streets be prohibited. and
that to protect the paved streets the
| width of wagon tires be regulated; that
an ordinance be adopted fixing the
| Width Of sidewalks; that steps be taken
| the city lead by putting In a preventing
device at the joint building; that the
city purchase at once all the railroad
lands living within the watersheds of
in tributary canyons; that the proposed
exchange of Jordan canal water for Big
/ Cottonwood water be c0nsunmated at
once, and that when this latter is Sc
cured that steps be taken to exchange
] Big Cottonwood and Jordan canal water
for MIN Creek water, and that
| gtneeTs library be Started with q small
appropriation.
WITHDRAWALS OF GOLD.
Washington, Jan. 15.-Adyices from
New York state the gold withdrawals