The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-08
City Councilman Rush Business In
Good Shape.
BIDS ON SPRINKLING CARTS
SEVERAL FIRMS COMPETING
FOR THE CONTRACT.
The Bicycle Ordinance City May
Sell the Apponya "Hole In the
Ground" For Site For Govern
ment Building = Councilmen Re-
solve to Attend Funeral.

The council made short work of the
once in its history there was an alb
sence of tiresome speeches
The principal matter of Importance
was opening of the bids for sprinkling
carts. and referring them to the COM
mittee or sprinkling. The bids We're as
| follows:
Wimbler Bros. offered twenty-five COO
gallon carts at S334.50 each, delivered in
Salt Lake; 750- gallon at $S45; So extra
| for brakes.
studebaker Bros. Manufacturing
company offered 75o-gallon carts at
1895, and 600-gallon at $315 each.
E. c. Austin offered 750-gallon carts
at 1870 each, and 60O-gallor at $685.
each.
j. H. Griffin offered thirteen 6OO-gal-
| Ion carts, fourteen $50 gallon carts, one
$685. gallon cart for a total of S5,715.
| Oblad & Knight offered ten 600 gallon
carts, with home made sprinkling at
! tachments, at $3.50 e.. III, and with Mil
| Ter patent sprinkling attachments, at
| $410 each.
Heath & Preece offered to furnish
from four to eight wagons, with teams
and drivers, at $50 per month each dur
ing the sprinkling season.
| The Consolidated Implement COM
pany offered fifteen 750-gallon carts for
| 1895. and ten OO-gallon carts for $3.50.
Frank Harigan offered to sell two
carts at $50 each.
The bids were all referred to the COM
mittee on sprinllling.
! The committee on streets, reporting
| the petition of Wheelmen, recommend
| ed that the ordinance be so amended
as to permit bicyclistS to ride on the
following streets from Nov. to March
! 81: South Temple, on the south side,
! from West Temple to State: First
| South, on the south side from West
! Temple to State street; Third South, on
the south side from West Temple to
First West street. The committees
recommendations were adopted.
| A joint resolution from the legisla-
| ture was received, asking the city to
| release all conditions attached TO the
| conveyance for the University square,
and that the same be decided to the
| state. The matter was referred to the
committee on public grounds.
| Diehl offered a resolution instruct
! ing the committee on public grounds to
look into the matter of selling the gov
eminent the lot at the corner of State
and First South for a public building
site Referred to- the committee on
public grounds. This has been known
ever since the city made the excavation
| for its proposed city hall as the "Ap-
ponya hole in the ground" Mr.. APP
ponya being the architect.
On motion of Councilman Morris the
council resolved to attend the funeral
| of eX-City Recorder Emery in a body
on Thursday afternoon
Clerk Diehl of the police court re-
ported as follows: Cases tried during
February. 140: receipts. 81, 1850. Filed.
! Superintendent Caine of the water
works department reported that the
| expenses of his department for Feb
ruary were $2,S4S.23. Filed.
Judge Sawyer, as successor of the
Mountain Ice & Cold Storage company,
/ presented claim for damages, based
upon the statement that the city failed
( to turn sufficient water into certain ice
J ponds last winter for the harvesting of
| ice. Otherwise Judge Sawyer says he
! would have sold ice to the amount of
| So 0O Referred to committee on
| claims.