The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-05
About $4,000 Will Be Spent in In
proving It.
THE PLANS ARE ADOPTED
WILL ADD TWO WINGS TO THE
MAIN BUILDING.
The Highland School Road Improve
ments and obstructions-A Far
mers Claim For Damages-Rou-
tine Business Transacted.

After extensively figuring 'on Salt
Lake county's probable income for the
year and calculating the approximate
total expenditures, the board of county
commissioners yesterday concluded that
it was safe without overreaching the
legal debt limit to incur a liability Of
about $1,000 for the improvement of the
county infirmary. The plans and Speci-
fications prepared by Architect Dallas
were again discussed, reviewed and
finally adopted and bids were ordered
solicited for furnishing the materials
and performing the work. 1t is pro-
posed to build two wings on the north
and south ends of the main building,
to put on a new balcony front, install
a new heating plant, change the plumb
ing and sewerage appurtenances, add a
second story TO the annex and TO make
several other betterments to the insti-
tuition. When these improvements are
completed the infirmary will be not
only much better adapted for the pur-
poses intended, but accommodations
viii be at hand 10 care for a larger
number Of inmates without crowding,
county by reason Of having pauper pa
tients cared for and treated at the hos
pitfalls viii be materially lessened
When the infirmary subject was dis
posed of the board directed Architect
Dallas to prepare plans and specifica-
tions for the proposed new jail at Muir
ray.
THE HIGHLAND BOY SCHOOL.
The controversy over the Highland
Boy school in upper Bingham was dis
posed of annicabIy and in short order.
Statements were made by School
Superintendent Van Colt Trustee c.
L
Highland. Boy Mining company and
at the conclusion Of the remarks it was
agreed that the teacher recommended
by the Highland people would be en-
ployed and paid by the trustees of dis
trict No. AZ, the mining company to
provide and equip the school house.
This arrangement was mutually sat
isfactory and the petition of the High
land people for a division of the school
district was withdrawn.
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND OBJ
STRUCTIONS.
On petition of B. F. Fitzgerald and
56 others of Draper and Daniel Densley
and 50 other resident taxpayers OF
RiVerton, the cutting of a new road
over Jordan Hill leading TO Willow
creek bridge and the Riverton station
of the Rio Grande Western railway
was authorized at an expense OF not
exceeding $500, according to a survey
and plat of the required cut and fill TO
be furnished by the county surveyor.
Reporting on the petition of W. B.
Brewster and a large number of tax
payers in Bingham canyon, Who rep
resented that the wagon road from the
Highland Mercantile companys store to
Victoria hill, which has been travelled
a quarter of a century, and upon which
the county has expended funds for, Il
years past, was now INSTRUCTED bv a
low trestle supporting the Old Tele-
graph cOmpany's tramWay, County
Surveyor Wilkes stated that he had as
certained that the county had obtained
no title TO The highway other than by
virtue of authorizing work to be done
upon it. After some discussion the
county surveyor vas directed to nego-
tate with Manager LaYagnino for The
change of the tramway's roadbed SO
that the wagon road can clear the
trestle With safety.
FARMERS CLAIM FOR DAMAGES
George Davis, by Darke & Anderson
his attorneys, presented a claim in
the sum of S549 for compensation for
the appropriation by the county of a
strip of his land, 2 by 49 rods in area
for road purposes, and for damages al
legged to have been sustained by rea-
son of the destruction of his frrigatine
ditch and consequent ruination of his
orchard and straw berry patch. The
claim was fled and, the road sllpervisor
of Halliday district was ordered cited
TO appear before the board next Mon
day and tell what he knows about the
damages alleged.
The board appropriated several ex-
pense claims and adjourned till Thurs
day afternoon