Arizona republican., 1901-03-06
THE CITY COUNCIL
Considerable Business Attended to at
 tho Adiournod Meeting.

The city council held an adjourned meeting last night at which a. number of important minor affairs were attend ed to, though nothing of startling in- terest occurred.
 The minutes of the last three months were read and approved after which J. T. Dennis es''t l that a water right in tho col. Rivel Valley canal which he t r,.ed over to i''e city in 1887. be re- turned. The ma pr said the records showed that the \ ter right was given to the mayor. and his successor in office. and he had ~efused to give It back to Mir. Dennis .il the council so instructed him. It WAS first given into the keeping of the mayor at time when MT. Dennis was away from home, in order that those holding city lots under thic' water right could have ac- cess to it when they made their annual purchase of water. The matter was re- ferred to the city attorney with in- structions to report at the next meet ing.
 Peter Leroy was given permission to move a building on his lot in the south part of town to another place on the same Tot.
 MT. Dennis also had another matter to bring up. Some years ago Mir. Dem his had given permission for the erec- ton of the Yucatec hose house on one of his lots on Monroe street He an nounced that he had sold the lot and requested that the hose house be moved off at once, as the purchaser desires to build. This brought up lot of talk about auxiliary fire companies. It was brought out that the city has a stand ing offer to turn the Yucatec and other apparatus over to Churchilrs addition, OF rather to establish a small fire house whenever the residents of that addi- tion present to the council evidence of a properly organized fire company. F. M. Mognett has also agreed to fur nish the ground on which su,h build ing may be erected subject to removal of building on sale. Thus far no company has been or ganized, though number of boys l made an effort in that direction once. which was laudable. but failed for the reason that members of the depart ment must be twenty-one years old or over.
 It Is therefore very probable that Ch,.rchill's addition will be given good fire protection just as soon as dozen mature residents get a move on them- selves in the right direction. The mat ter of the Yucatec hose house was re- ferred to the street and alley committee with power to act.
 Some time ago a council committee was instructed to take steps toward | the planting of from 800 to 1000 ash shade trees in the city. to be divided between the four wards, and las. night bids for that work were received from | q. H. Clayson, Chase l.. Purdy and Frank Wagner, for furnishing and planting. prices ranging from fifteen to thirty cents. according to the size of | the trees. The matter was left with the street and alley committee with | power to act
 Building permits were granted to Walter Talbot. Smith and Millay, John Dewitt and Chris Duhring Reports of the city corral and pound keeper for February were received and | filed.
 Councilman McNeil stated that in
 order to prosecute economically the
 work of street sprlnkling 1t would be necessary to erect stand-pipes for the
 use of the sprnklers on South Seventh
 avenue. North Seventh avenue and North Center street near Simm's addi- | ton. The work was ordered done. The matter of seeing that the cross walks in the business part of town ! were kept in order by the city railway
 was referred to the city attorney. and
 a plan to straighten the route of the fire alarm wires on West Monroe street
 and vicinity, was referred to the street
 and alley committee.
 The council then went into a sort of a
 committee of the whole to consider the
 proposed ordinance granting a fran
 chise to NJ. F.. Collins for a street rail-
 way along Jefferson street.
 Another meeting will probably be held next Monday night. |