The record-union., 1895-09-03
ELECTRIC CARS TO WASHINGTON
County Surveyors Report on the
New Hope Bridge.
Prisoners in the County Jail Who
VIII BE Allowed Their
Full Credits.

lar session yesterday morning, Super
visors Morrison, Todd, Curtis, Jenkins
and brennan being present.
y communication was received from
the City Board Of Education, stating that
SlI7, 450 would be needed TO run the gram
mar. primary and kindergarten schools
for the ensuing year, of which S62, 900
would probably come in from the State
fund. leaving $54, 40 Of special tax to be
raised.
Todd, for the Committee on Roads and
Bridges. reported that the committee had
examined the bridge at McConnelPs Sta
ton, and found that two of the caps need
ed immediate replacement.
Curtis reported that some of the cul-
verts and bridges in his district would
need repairing, but there was not a great
deal needed.
! Morrison stated that he had gone with
the County Surveyor to look al the New
| Hope bridge. He had no idea that there
was so much travel over that road as he
found TO be the case. The Surveyor
would make his report in due time. Con-
siderable trestl0 work will have to be
done there. They also examined the
washout along the road by ex-senator
Johnston's. and found, that it needed i'm
|
| Two rows of piers will have to be driven
and filed in with brush, so that when the
river rises the sediment will settle into il
and make il solid.
Below Franklin he found a man at
work with ten horses and road scraper.
! AS no authority for such work had been
given, he ordered him 10 stop, which he
did.
Jenkins said that no work had been
done in his district lately by his author
! ity, the board having decided that IL
should only be done on its order. The
| creamery road Is very important one,
! however.
Morrison said that he was aware of that
fact, but there was money, and the
farmers themselves had objected to hav-
ing work done whom there was no money
in the district funds 10 pay torit. That was
/ the reason the board made the order.
They found all the sixtyfive miles OF
roads Travelled over by Them, he said, i'll
! fine condition, except in two or three
! places, whore they had been plOwed up.
| brennan reported that the work OF re-
pairs on the Courthouse was nearly fin
! ished. The new courtroom was beng
| finished up rapidly, and the interior
would be finished by the time il was
needed for occupation-about the 10Th or
! 17tn inst.
County Surveyor Boyd made report
/ u
! w. Ii. ferguson's place. northwest OF
! Gait, stating that the mudsiiis of the
trestles were in bad condition and nothing
! but piles Tor the trestles would render
them safe. The river washes into it in
! places, and as money TO repairlt 1t is scarce.
| he suggested an eXpedient 10 repair 1t by
! the putting IN OF TWO treStI6s, amounting
| To- thirty-eig leet.
! He also reported on the petition of j.
! NJ. Gladney and others Tor a county road
near Antelope. y petition for the extern
] sion of The road has been presented TO
! the Supervisors of Placer County and the
| report recommends that before final
action be taken the board ascertain what
! disposition be made of the matter by the
! Placer County board. The report was
adopted.
| \ Mr.. Mccormack stated that the
! Placer County board had taken no action
! in the matter.
| The County Surveyor was granted
/ further time to make his reports OF the
New Hope bridge at Benson's Ferry and
the washout along the ievee near Senator
! Johuston's.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
In the afternoon w. ID. Lawton ap-
peared before the board to ask the passage
| of an ordinance allowing the running of
electric cars over The Sacramento River
! bridge, 10 carry passengers between sac
ramento and IoIo County.
Jenkins said that the upper roadway
intended Tor wagons was only eighteen
feet wide and that the hay wagons that
were rugged for two bales wide would
take up ten feet and there would be no
room Tor electric cars. There were other
difficulties in the way. lie understood
that the elevated roadway was for the
purpose OF separating the wagons and
cars.
The matter was referred 10 the District
Attorney tor MS opinion.
message from the Sheriff was read,
giving list OF about twenty-five prison
ers in the County Jail who had complied
with the rules and were therefore entitled
TO credits, and whose terms would ex pire
before the next meeting of the board.
The prisoners were allowed their
credits.