The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-12
WANT ACTION DEFERRED
The Directors Committee Inter
views the Mayor.
FRANK STATEMENT MADE

for the Consideration of the New
Administration They
Will Petition.
Night before last a meeting was held
in the State Savings bank. 1t was a
meeting of DIRECTORS to the proposition
of paving parts of Wyoming, Arizona,
Granite, Academy, Montana, Broad
way and parts of alleys embraced in the
four improvement districts recently Gre
ated by the city council. There were
about 80 DIRECTORS, all owners of prop
erty that will be affected by the paving
resolutions adopted at the last meeting
of the council These objectors appoint
ed Patrick Tallant and D. Dorais COM
mittee to wait upon Mayor Harrington
to obtain his views in regard to the
probability of the council reconsidering
its action in the paving matter. At the
last meeting of the council the protes-
tors were invited to be present and offer
their reasons for combating the resolu-
ton. No one of them arose to make a
protest, and accordingly the council
passed the resolution to pave and there
the matter rests.
Mr.. Tallant was spokesman yesterday
and he told the mayor what had been
done in the matter of the objection. He
said that while the DIRECTORS expressed
the unanimous sentiment of disappro-
val of the councils action, they did not
wish to rush into the courts with the
matter. but rather preferred to have the
council defer action until May |. How
, ever. if the council directed the work to
be done just SO soon as the first clOd of
dirt was turned the city would he en-
! Joined from prosecuting the work and
, complying with the order of the coun-
, Gil. The mayors reply is embodied in a
public statement, which he made last
, | evening, as follows:
owing to the great amount Of dissat-
/ isfaction of property owners in the ter
e ritory comprised in the special improve
l ment districts. created by the resolu-
v tons passed at the last meeting of the
e council for paving the streets and al
leyS in those districts, I deem il adVis-
able to make a brief but candid eX-
! PLANTATION of the matter at issue, both
. for the benefit Of the people who are
r directly interested and the general pub
l lie.
l THE object Of making different ar,
7, engagements for paving these streets and
G alleys to the plan followed out for the
l last two years was to enable the owners
of property to pay the assessment iI
1 four installments within a period OF
g three years instead of paying the whole
V cost Of the work in one lump sum imme.
i diately after its completion
:, THE necessity for adopting this plar
4 was suggested by the fact that larg
2 portion of the property in those districts
4
| sequently not as conducive to brnt
), large rentals to the owners as the prop
!. critics on the streets already paved. al
of which are occupied for business anC
A enable the occupants to pay the high
l est rents for the premises.
THE paving committee of the coun
?, Gil, together with the city attorney anc
y. city engineer deliberated on this matte
; for some time before the resolutions de
claring the Citys intention to do TIL
!, work were prepared and submitted t
;. the city council, and that body. having
been irreVocably committed to the max
. ing of street Improvements on a perma
: nent plan, decided without a dissenting
= voice to pass the resolutions, subject t
the approval of a majority of the own
:, ers of AUDITING and contiguous prop
erty in these districts.
- THE law relating to the making O
improvements in this way provides tina
= the resolutions declaring the ctys in
tentiOn to do the work must first b
, adopted by the council and publishe
, for five days in a newspaper publishe
: in the city. describe the boundaries o
the district and designate the number o
. the district and the character of the i'm
provements which are to be made. a
approximate estimate of the cost thereo
:, and the time when the council will hea
| objections to It's final adoption.
'All Of the above conditions havinl
- been rigidly complied with and none O
the owners Of property in those district
= having appeared, either personally CT b
counsel, as required by law. at the tim
;, stated in the resolutions the city coun
- ell unanimously and finally adopte
= those resolutions and thereby acquire
a jurisdiction to do the work.
q But the city authorities stop rigf
Is here and so does the further progres
Il of paving until the city council shall oil
# der the work to be done
& Il have stated to the gentlemen VIII
f. waited upon me to-day that I believ
n this council will very likely defer fur
N Their action on this matter till the 1st {
J., May, which will be the beginning
n the fiscal year and the term of the ne>
. city administration, and as the new az
ministration will have charge of and /
IS held responsible for the constructio
ell ana uurapllltS OF the WORK, tnsy ShOu'
Re be accorded the privilege Of ordering II
J. making of the improvements and |,
st the contracts for doing the work.
lie The committee representing the Of
jectors to the paving expressed them
IS selves as satisfied with my views on III
h present status Of this matter and as
Y sured me that their protest to the cit
y council a its next meeting would be
: the shape Of a request to defer furthe
action until May l. or after the mat
t guration of the next city admnistrs
r ton"
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