The herald., 1896-05-02
HE WILL REPORT TO GLASS
But II Will Only Be Once Eacn
Week
fhe sewsr Committee and the Health officer
PlnaIly Take Hand to Regulate MAT.
ters In the OIL Territory

EOllCe N1ldSS OhSC ~
The report is in full as follows:
Your sewer committee beg leave to
report in the matter of the oil inspect
or. which was referred to them at prev
ious meeting Of your honoraple pody,
that we have made personal Inspection
through the oil fields and we find that
much of the disturbance and nuisances
complained Of have been remedied. that
the Unnecessary smoke coming from the
smokestack the blowing Off or steam
and the rattle Of machinery at night
have been materially subdued since the
inspector has been in the Held. and
while we believe that In the operation OF
oil wells there will be more or less un-
avoidable deposits Of oil on private prop
erty. vet your committee insists that
there should be the greatest care eX-
ercised and that the inspector Should
see to it that all wells shall be operated
with the greastest care.
We therefore recommend that the in
spector be instructed to see that the FOL
lowing nuisances are remedied:
That the Rex OIL company be prohib-
tied from running water and oil through
the culvert across First street west OF
Belmont street.
from running oil and water down state
street from Tolucca avenue.
Also that Park Place be cleaned up at
the oil tank owned by G. w. Tubbs.
Also that when the Doheney- Common
Owens OIL company load oil on Figueroa
street near Temple street, the same
should be cleaned up.
Also that oil we'll owners be prohibited
from running oil or water down Temple
street cutters. or down any of the streets
We believe that in cases where wells
are not used and are abandoned that the
inspector should see that the law is en-
forced, and the derricks removed.
a
or operators of wells should be compell-
ed to pay their license at the office OF
the city clerk and the city clerk author
lied to collect the same. as great deal
of the time of the inspector Is taken up
collecting these licenses when ne should
be out in the oil district. =,
We further recommend that the OIL
inspector be instructed to report to the
chief of police at least once week as TO
the condition of the oil district.
The health officer yesterday had post
ed in the oil field the following notice:
Ordinance No 2461, new series. Sec
ton lit is hereby declared unlawfui
for any person, firm or corporation,
their officers, agents, servants or en-
ployes, to deposit or place or to suffer
or permit to be deposited or placed. any
oil, petroleum, naptha. the refuse of any
oil well. or any kindred substance, upon
any public street, alley or place of the
(lIX OF LOS AUScltS, VI III dHy HdiJd
irrigating ditch. storm drain or sewer
or upon any private property in said
city In such manner that the same
may run into or upon any public street,
alley or place, or into any zanja, irri-
eating ditch, storm drain or sewer of
the city of Los Angeles.
Section 2 of this ordinance provides
that any violation of the above section
Is a misdemeanor and punishable by
fne and Imprisonment.
After the 5th day of May, 1896, any
person found violating the above or
dinance will be arrested at the instance
of the health department. 1t makes no
of one of the wagons or the agent of the
company buying the oil; he neverthe-
less will be violating the law and will
be dealt with accordingly.
NO ACTION ON HITCHTNG
A large delegation of business men
was before the board of public works
again yesterday to argue for some sort
of legislation which will tend to end the
present monopoly of the principal
streets of the city by the indiscrimi-
nate hitching of horses and the ty-
ing up of wagons. carriages and other
vehicles. The matter was after an eX-
tended argument, referred to the Mer-
chants association and hack and ex-
pressmen most interested on both sides
of the question, to agree among them
selves upon some sort of an ordinance
which the city attorney will later SUBJ
init to the council for adoption.
The board of public works yesterday
acted upon the following:
Recommend that the petition from l.
E. Bolton ct al, asking for the enlarge
lnent of the district within which more
than two cows cannot be kept by one
party be referred to the city attorney
To preDara and rreSepf the papascarxy
ordinance therefor.
Recommend that the petition from w.
c. Harrison in reference to the sidewalk
on the west side of Lake street be filed.
Recommend that petition from Q. r..
johnson ct al. asking that sidewalk
be constructed on the north side of
Orange street between BiXel and Lucas
avenue, and on the west side of Lucas
avenue from Orange to Seventh street,
he granted and the city engineer be in
structed to prepare and present the nee
essary ordinance of intention therefor
Recommend that petition from R. w.
Baker ct al, asking that Bauchet street
from it's eastern terminus to Avila
street be graded. graveled and curbed
with cement curb, be granted and the
city engineer instructed to present the
necessary ordinance of intention there
for
Recommend that petition from r. w.
Baker ct al, asking that Avila street
from Bauchet to Macy street be graded,
Graveled and curbed with cement curb,
re granted and the city engineer in
structed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance of intention there
for
Recommend that petition from George
Zobelein in reference to the condition
or Figueroa street near the south char
Ter boundary. be referred to the street
superintendent to extend the cutters so
t1at the water will run down the street
at this point.
WHO WILL PAY THE TAX?
The city engineers office has finally
inade up the district of assessment
Where the property will have to pay for
tne proposed Broadway tunnel. The
dlstrict will take in both sides of Broad
way from Sand to Tenth streets on the
nortn on Bellevue avenue to Teed street,
tnence northwest, crossing Ord street, to
Aipine, thence on Hill to College street,
u1ence crossing the College Street tract,
tnence west paralleling the Chavez Ra-
vine road for two blocks, thence begin
nlng at the southwest corner of the He
prev cemetery the line turns eastward
10 bernard street, thence north to Gem
etery street, thence east on Cemetery to
the junction Of Bernard and Cemetery
streets north to the northwest corner Of
Calvary cemetery, taking in the north
erly ana >easterly boundaries, thence
along the western boundary Of Buena
VISTA Tact to the westerly boundary of