The record-union., 1899-07-15
HOW SHOULD IT Be PAID?
suPERvIsORs DISCUSS COUNTY
ROAD sPRINKLING.
application Made for Some Reduce
tions ON County Assess
ments. a

AZ the meeting of the Board of Su-
pervlsors yesterday morning the ques-
.ion OF sprinkling came up, and Nc
1ausniin said he did not think the
sprlnkifng should be paid for out of
tue General Fund, as the city paid for
It's own sprinkling.
Jenkins argued that the city had
never done anything for the country.
Nlliis agreed with Mclaughlin. He
thought the city had done great
deal to help the country in the mat
ter of roads.
had subscribed, but the city had done
nothing as a city
morrison said the city had been
snarp enough to get the county to
pay one-third of the cost of bridges
across the Thirty-first street canal.
which belongs to the city entirely and
which 1t has to maintain.
mclaughlin and ellis said it drained
the country outside of the city and
the country should help bear the ex-
zpense, but Morrison reminded him
that the country had a natural ease
ment in Burns Slough before it was
filled up, and helped build the canal
for the city. If Burns Slough had been
left open the country would have
been drained all right. The city ac-
knowledged its liability to keep the
ditch and canal in repair by building a
bridge for Mrs. O'Toole.
The matter was then dropped.
w. H. Todhunter appeared for G..
H, W. P. and T. H. Todhunter and
asked reduction on the assessment
on the west twenty feet Of lot 8, J
and K, Front and Second, from $1.35O
on real estate and 81, 500 on improve
ments, to $1,1OO on real estate and
81 200 on improvements, a reduction
of $500. He said it was nearly i'm
possible to rent it and he had offered
to sell it for $4,000
Assessor Berkey said he reduced
the property $500 last year and he
did not think it too high.
L. Neubourg asked a reduction of
81 .165 on personal property from 3d.
4S0 to S2,325. He said the assess
ment was nearly $1,000 higher than
: last year and he had not so much
stock as then.
Assessor Berkey said he did not
think it was assessed for enough last
year.
H. Lagos asked for a reduction from
his assessment on property on the
south forty feet of lot 5, Front and
Second, and o streets, from 5000
on improvements to $3.50.
Assessor Berkey said the property
was assessed for 1850 and was
leased for two years to come, as Mr..
Lagos admitted, at $40 month, which
is a better income than 20 per cent.
of the business property in the city
brings.
H. B. Nelson asked that the assess
ment on the ST. George building be
reduced from $37 900 on the improve
ments. The income is not as great as
two years ago and rents of the offices
have been much reduced. The prop
erty was bringing in about $400, but
the building is an old one and re-
quires repairs.
Morrison stated that the County
Treasurer said that 5000 turned into
the General Fund last year from the
unapportioned fund could safely be
taken from the General Fund and
placed in the Road District Funds. As
there are road bills pending, he moved
that the 5000 be transferred to the
two road district funds in the proper
proportion, to pay the pending claims.
The motion prevailed and several
claims We're allowed.
The board took a recess till this
morning