The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-22
COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION
CREATING NEW DISTRICT.
TENDER FOR NORTH PARK
Billings Fair Association Makes Bid
on Ground Now Occupied
BY 1t.

Unless the c:sy council can be
Showed" ewe district No. z will
yet find a place on the official map
of the city, but it will not embrace
the terirtory which it was intended
originally to include in the district.
Instead Of being on the north side
it will be on the south side. Such
is the conclusion contained in a
resolution adopted under a suspen-
sion of the rules at the councils meet
ing last Tuesday night.
Officially the proposed district will
be KNOWN AIS special Improvement
district No. z and its boundaries, as
now outlined, are as follows:
From South Twenty eighth street
and the alley running east and west
in block 1911; thence in a southerly
direction along the center of South
Twenty-eighth street to the i~ntersec-
tion of Fourth avenue, south; thence
in a westerly direction along the cen
ter of Fourth avenue ito its intersec-
ton with South Twenty-ninth street;
thence in a northerly directions along
THE center of South Twenty-ninth
street to the intersection of the alley
first named and then easterly to the
place of beginning.
All parts of the city contained in
blocks 1853, 165, 139 and the south
half of block 1911, according to the
official plat Of the city on file in the
office of the county clerk and recor-
der, are contained in the area above
described. The proposed sewer is to
be constructed of eightinch pipe, in
side measurement, and the estimated
cost of the proposed system will be
$2,450. The cost of construction is
to be taxed to the abutting property
and collection of the special tax levied
for that purpose will be extended
over a period Of three years, exclusive
of the year in which it is placed on
the tax roll.
Objections will be heard by the
council at the first meeting in Febru-
airy, which happens to fall on the End
O. the month.
~ Wants to Buy Park.
= City Attorney Matheson made a
verbal report to the council that he
had conferred with the officers of the
Billings Fair association! in reference
ito the matter of renewing the lease
on North park, title to the property
now being vested in the city, which
ment of the litigation between the
city and the Minnesota & Montana
Land and improvement company. He
said that instead of wishing to lease,
the association had made IN offer ito
buy the ground and fixed $1,000 as
the amount it was prepared ito pay
for it.
Every alderman at M declared
himself as against acceptance of the
offer, saying that at $4,000 or $4,000
it would prove a good investment.
The tract contains 144 building lots
and even at the small valuation of
$25 a lot it would be worth So, 600.
After some informal discussion the
question was referred to the finance
committee and city attorney with in
structions to see the associations
officers at once and consult with them
furthern in regard ITO a lease.
To Collect Delinquent Taxes.
The city attorney reported that he
had looked into the matter Of the
delinquent taxes due the city and
found that the list was a large n
and that to compile it would require
considerable amount of work. The
matter was talked over and the mayor
instructed Aldermen Berky and Will
liams ITO make arrangements for the
preparation of a delinquent list and
turn it over to the city attorney. At
ter this shall have been done that
official will take the necessary steps
to enforce collection, either by sale
or such other way as may seem best
to him.
Must Remove Shack.
Alderman Beninghof called atten-
tion of the council to the delinquency
of the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany in the matter of keeping it's
promise ito the city. He said that the
time given the company in which to
construct and maintain the corrugated
iron shanty near the passenger sta
tion as a temporary baggage room had
expired. Notwithstanding such expi-
ration. the was m~anifestinp