The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-02
WATER FIGHT IN OGDEN.
CITY COUNCIL TAKES UP THE
MATTER IN EARNEST.
Nine Tasks Provided For the Water
Commission and Mayor-Street
Grading and Other Matters.

Especial 10 The Herald.)
Ogden, June lat the session of the
city council tonight. the fight against
the waterwOrks company was carried
8 forward along several different lines.
Four desperate resolutions, designed
| TO secure vantage against the COM
pany, were introduced and passed.
Conroy introduced one providing that
the water commission. with the mayor
and auditor, visit the water company
and secure facts as TO the original COS.
of the system, and have the result of
their Investigations published in the
daily papers. This is in accordance
with the terms of the franchise, which
gave the city the right to such informal
ton. 1t carried.
Pierce introduced a resolution in
structing the city attorney to notify
the company after June so until the
title to the system is settled, and that
the attorney be instructed to begin
proceedings in court 10 quiet the title.
This also passed.
NJ l. Jones resolution provided nine
tasks for the water commission and the
mayor. They are TO ascertain: % the
amount of water now owned by Ogden
and the means whereby the city can
acquire more; 90 the estimated cost CT
the new proposed system; 60 the
amount of interest Der year The bonds
would neceSSitate, and the amount OF
operating expenses of the new system;
(4) the amount Ogden city IL now ray-
ing the water company for hydrantS;
60 the amount paid by residents and
taxpayers to the company per year;
60 the estimated cost of maintaining
the present system, exclusive of Mr..
Rowe's salary; Cd amount of cash sent
out each year to this foreign syndicate;
(S) the condition of the present svs-
tenn and. 90 the proposed reduction OF
rates and brief outline of methods
and results of other cities owning
water systems.
The commission is furthermore
charged with calling a mass meeting
and providing speakers to explain the
proposition TO the meeting. Browning
resolution provided that the city engi-
neer report to the water committee all
information in his possession as 10
plans and cost of the proposed new
system and other necessary available
data. Conroy presided in the absence
of the president.
The street committee reports against
grading Nye avenue and Jackson ave-
nue. near Thirtieth were adopted. Nun
roe avenue between Twenty-first and
Twenty was ordered graded
and Seventeenth street below Wash
ingtOn avenue was ordered graded, so
as to permit the laying of street car
rails TO the race track.
The recorder reported having sent a
letter to the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company notifying them
that the city had passed an ordinance
requiring them to take out license and
report the number of Instruments, but
the letter had not been answered This
was referred to an executive commit
tee.
A large amount of routine business
was transacted before going into ex-
ecutive session.
When the committee of the whole |
arose. it reported that the recorder be |
instructed 10 enforce the telephone or
dinance and to notify the street rail- /
way company TO repair their paving on /
TWenty-fifth street. so as to protect /
the city's paving The matter of |
whether tax deed for the street rail /
way line on Twenty-fifth street should I
be taken by reason of its delinquent !
paving tax was referred TO the city at 7
torney.
Mr.. Bannister was formally invited I
to meet today with the Fourth of July |
committee to consult as TO the pro-
posed celebration of the completion of /
the power plant.
Two hundred and fifty dollars was
to the mayors contingent
fund.