The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-17
BUTTE News.
NUMBERING OF HOUSES
Many New Buildings Without
the Necessary Index.
PROVISIONS OF THE LAW
The Owner Must Aft1x Number Within
10 Days After Receiving Notice
From the City Engi-
neer's Office.

A great number of dwelling and bust
ness houses has been built during the
last year; indeed the number of houses
exceeds the number of numbers that
have, under provision of the city ordi-
nance, been placed on the buildings.
In some parts of the city may be seen
several new houses without numbers
posted on them. In most cases, 1t is
believed, the owners have simply ne
elected to put the number on. The or
dinance relating to this matter deals
kindly with the owner, as it only re-
quires that numbers shall be placed
after due notice has been given by the
city engineers office. Several persons
have recently called at the Standard
office to inquire into the law governing
tie NUM-. ring of houses and to ask
where such numbers may be obtained.
In answer to the last question it may
be said that numbers can be obtained
at most of the hardware stores, and
as to the former the matter is ex-
planned in the following extracts, The
city ordinance relating to the number
ing of houses is as follows:
Section l. That all houses and places
of business having an entrance from
any street or alley of this city, shall
be numbered by the owner or agent
of said property within 10 days after
notice so to do by the city engineer, or
other officer authorized by the city
council.
Sec. 2. The initial point for number
ing shall be Park and Main streets, and
all even numbers shall be on the south
side of streets running east and west,
Hf cir
ming north and south, and odd num-
bers shall be on opposite sides of such
streets.
Sec. 5. To each space of Is linear feet
on any street or alley shall be as
signed one house number, the same to
have the prefix of the hundred, as
signed to the block as per official map
refferred to in section of this ordi-
nance, each entrance used for a resi-
dence or place of business shall have
separate number and each stairway
from street shall have a number:
where necessary one-half or one-quar-
ter number may be used i. e., 204B.
1904, etc. All alleys shall take the
same numbering as the street from
which they are named. (Aleys running
east and west shall take the name of
the street south of it. and every alley
running north and south shall take the
name of the street east of it,.
eCt. u All SNAIL DE not less
than three inches long and shall be
placed in conspicuous place, where
the same can be easily seen from the
middle of the street or alley from which
they are The numbers shall be of
metal or painted or worked into
stained glass or otherwise placed upon
a building so as to be durable and con-
spicuous.
Sec. Z. Any owner or agent of any
building who is ordered, in writing. by
the city engineer or his assistant, or
any officer authorized by the city coun-
Gil to perform such duty, to place a
number on his building, on to change
any number which said building may
have, shall do the same within 10 days
after the receipt of said notice.
Sec 8. Any person violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
shall be fined in any sum not less than
81 or more than $50"