Arizona silver belt., 1901-02-28
Town Council Proceedings.


 The town council met in regular session on Tuesday night at the office of the clerk of the district court An the members, the clerk, city attorney and marshal were present.
 A profile of the grade of Broad street, made by City Engineer PendIe- ton, was accepted and his bill of s5 for making the same, was allowed.
 The following bills were presented and allowed; F. L. Jones for ceme- tery work, slO; Silver Belt for print ing, Sl1.75: lumber bills, sl9Os: o. D.. Com. Co. for tools S3.775. The conSid- erdtinn Of the monthly bills was post poned until Friday morning March l. Only one bid was received for the con tract to remove the garbage from the city, and the council decided not to consider that matter until after the marshal had had the city thoroughly cleaned once. and then they would be better able to decide how much it was worth per month to keep it clean The mayor stated that the town had but one contract on it's hands at the present time. which is the one for sprinkling the streets for sl45 per month, which expires in June.
 The question of disincorporation was then brought up. The mayor stated that he was well satisfied with what he and the council had done while in office; that they had all done the best they could do, for the town 's and tax payerS' interests, and hoped that dis incorporation would not prevail, as he believed 1t was d step backwards; for all towns had more or less difficulty before they could pro perly and sue ceSsfully carry on city or town gov ernment, yet there were many towns in the territory, at the present time, not as large as Globe, which is the fourth or fifth town in the territory, that had passed the stage of trouble, such as We are having, and are now in "a prosperous condition, and he thought Globe in time would surely be as good, if not better than, many of them, if it was not disincorporated now: besides such action would look bId to people on the outside, from a business and commercial standpoint, aS Gila county now had the reputation Of being slow and not as progreSsiy c to be. Personally, he said he very much regretted having had anything to do with the town organization, and would nave resigned long since, and would do so at any time, if he could dU so hOnorably, for since he has been in that office, his feelings have been much and frequently hurt, by re- marks made in his hearing; he has lost friends and business on that ac- count: that people said the council were a mutual admiration sOcieuy;n besides making many dlSparaging re- marks about the council collectively aud sin9ly, which he felt they were not justified in making He hoped that when the matter was brought before the supervisors, that both sides of the ques tion would be fully dis cuSsed and understood before any haSty action was taken and suggested that it might be d good idea to em- ploy addtiOna counsel to assist the city attorney in fairly presenting the matter before the supervisors; how ever, he was ready at any time to abide by the will of a majority of the people. He also regretted the stand taken by the press in this matter.
 The other members expressed them selves as feeling very much as the mayor does about the situation, al- though, possibly, more forcibe lan- guage was used in defining their posi- tions, yet they are all willing to abide by the will of the majority. After app inting a committee to look into the matter of employing additional counsel, the council adjourned to meet on Friday at 10 a. m.