The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-12
MADE SHORT WORK OF IT.
The COMMITTEES Urges n Zig Addition to
the City of Butte.

The ways and means committee made
/ short work of reaching conclusion
relative TO the proposal To extend the
city limits by anneXing adjacent terri
tory. The committee met yesterday
afternoon in the persons of Aldermen
Melcher and Bowman, and decided Ia
recommend to the council that propo-
stion be submitted to the voters at the
coming municipal election to annex
territory amounting To about one half
the present area of the city
Prior to the meeting, Mayor Harring-
ton had requested City Engineer Black
ford to prepare an outline of the prop
erty surrounding the city that was
most suitable to be. taken into the in
corporation, and these suggestions
We're before the committee. The two
members looked over the map and. call
ing a hack. drove over the property
embraced in the suggestions accom-
panied by Mayor Harrington and the
city engineer After visiting the vari-
Gus sections they returned TO the city
hall and. summing up their conclusions
prepared their report to the council
That portion of the report designating
the line which will constitute the new
city limits If the report is adopted and
the proposition carries, reads:
Beginning al the present northeast
corner of the city limits near the Silver
Bow mill, thence north quarter of a
mile. thence westward to the south line
Of the right of way of the main line of
the Montana Union hill line thence
west and northwest along the south
line Of the said right of way to the
south line of the Raven addition; thence
west to an intersection with the center
line of May street as produced north:
thence south along said line and the
center line OF said May street produced
south to the south line of section IA
thence eastward to the southeast cor
ner of said section IA. thence south
along the west line of section "a to the
quarter section corner between sections
% ana "a: thence eastward to the CEN
ter of section pa"
The proposition increases the area of
the city by about one-half the present
area. or To "A total of about three square
miles IL VIII be noted that territory
is added on the east. north and west
sides of the city. The territory pro
posed to be- annexed, takes in among
other territory. the Fansett and Tai
bott and Jones additions in the east n
part of Centerville ON the north. and
on the west the following plated addi-
tons and parts of additions The
Homett, Hope. Volunteer Lawlor and
NFhipeI, hehfA, TREAT western. Law
Tor, parts not now i'm of the Emmett,
Excelsior and Neptune. the Stanley,
vanderbilt. Montrose, Homevale parts
OF Montrose No. ,. Fairview, Big Butte
and Western Heights. Besides these
plated additions. there is much other
property included. The proposed ex
tension will greatly increase the taxable
properly of the city as well as the city's
voting population.
The committees report will be type
written and copy furnished the city
attorney from which to draw a res0-
luton To be adopted by the council sub
mlttins the proposition to vote of the
people There is no doubt the council
Will adopt the resolution providing for
the extension as outlined i'm this report.