Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-03


Messrs. Andrews, Delgado, Dominguez,
Holmes and Sena answered to roll call.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
The city treasurer reported as follows
Cash on hand Aug. 1...................S 6O4 %
Received from city clerk; :; ......... 2s0 g
I" = county collector ...... FOB Is
Total .......;.........'' l'9 oe o oi
Warrants paid in August. ...,....,'S SO 81 81
Balance on hand Observation-Disclosures. 100 50
Warrants outstanding. .$1O'6SO AZ
The city CLERK reported Licenses collect
ed during August amounting to $230'75.
Both reports were referred to the finance
committee.
The monthly reports of the city mar
shall and police magistrate were received
and referred to the finance and police
committees.
The marshal reported fines collected
1928, and that he had paid out for feed,
ETC., 1915.
He also reported that he had on hand
1913 collected on account of road taxes in
the 1st and I'd wards.
He made verbal report as ex-officio
street commissioner that he had completed
the work in the 1st and I'd wards as far
as he could with the labor and resources
at his command and was now ready to
begin work in the Sd and 4th wards. He
also SAID that he had consulted Contractor
Monier regarding the cost of building a
stone gutter on San Francisco street
| from the Arcade corner to the narrow
gauge railroad track, between 800 and
900 feet, and that Mr.. Monier would not
do the work, material being furnished,
| for less than cents foot.
The marshal was thereupon instructed
by the mayor to submit his future re-
ports as street commissioner in writing.
On motion of Mr.. Delgado, the mayor
was requested to designate some one to
act as city attorney during the absence of
Mr.. Ortiz, and the mayor accordingly
named Mr.. A. B. Renehan.
The finance committee reported that it
had had under consideration the resolu-
ton of the board of education making a
special tax levy of mills for school pur-
poses, and recommended that the levy
proposed be reduced to 2 mills on the
dollar.
Mr.. Lutz, of the board of education,
being present, announced that the board
had held no meeting that evening, quo
rum not being present, but expected to
hold meeting on Saturday evening.
1t was then decided TO take no action
on the matter of the special school tax
| he pf odn
being apprised of the recommendation
of the finance committee, held another
meeting.
Referring to the bills of Sheriff Gun.
bingham for feeding city prisoners and
several other matters referred to the com
mittee, Chairman Garcia announced fol
the benefit of all concerned that THE
finance committee would hold meeting
at Firemen's hall at 4 O'Clock this after
noon for the consideration of all matters
before it.
The mayor suggested that the commit
tee at that time give careful considera-
tion to the matter of employing counsel
to protect the interests of the city in the
matter OF the appeal of the Santa Fe
grant case to the U. s. supreme court.
The board of health submitted report
recommending that measures be taken
to insure the purity of the milk sold in
the city, particularly with reference to
guarding against tuberculosis. The re-
port was referred to the committee on
licenses and ordinances.
| Mr.. Renehan, acting city attorney, was
requested at once to confer with the
committee on streets and bridges respect
ing the opening of certain streets.
DR.. Andrews, chairman of the commit
tee on streets, bridges and sprinkling,
submitted the following written report:
| To the honorable mayor aud city coun-
Gil of the city of Santa Fe.
| Gentlemen: In making my report as
chairman of the committee on streets,
bridges and sprinkling, it is report not
of the committee on their work, but
on the work as completed Cor uncomplet-
ed) in wards Nos. and 2 by the marshal,
acting in the capacity of ex-officio street
commissioner.
| find that from the commencement of
the work up to the present time, the work
on the main ira, eled thoroughfares has
been done in very superficial manner,
or not at all; and the main work has been
done on side streets or those having but
little traffic, and the greatest amount of
work done has been done in manner far
from economical in work or material,
trans porting filling material from much
greater distances than necessary, and
filling where no filling was required
As only one instance of the many, ]
would respectfully refer you to the work
done on Don Gaspar avenue, a street
about fifty feet in width, left with an ir'
regular road but of about twenty five feet
the balance taken up with an irregular
gutter or excavation of from five to sever
feet in width on theseast side, and one o
five feet on the west, and the balance side
walk, and the east bank left very steep
making it dangerous in turning or t.