Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-06-02
CITY COUNCIL MEETS
r ca ira nges STREET Light-Civic
Improvement Idea Dominant.

A regular meeting Of the council
was held this Thursday evening. The
report Of the committee on lights,
signed by Uouncilmen RaDdie and
Cass was read and the recommends
tion as to changes in lights were
adopted. The committee was ordered
to confer with the Southern Pacific in
regard to the Company installing an
arc light at the depot to replace the
present incandesct mt, which the city
will remove The report of the com
mittee herewith published gives the
number of arc and incandescent street
lights now in use and the number
and location of the new lights that
are to be installed:
Commi ttee inspected the new arc
system on the night of May 20, 1905
and found nine arc lights located at the
intersection OF the following streets,
viz: Sixth and A, Sixth and G, Sixth
and E, Sixth and II, Sixth and j. Sixth
and L, Fourth and G, G and Maine,
Fifth and alley between G and II.
Said nine lights arc installed accord
ing to contract and were giving
satisfactory service. The arc lights
take the place of the following 10
80 C. D incandescents which can bo
taken out. viz: Situated on Sixth
and A, Sixth and b, Sixth and @,
Sixth and d. Sixth and Il, Sixth and
f, sixth and G, Sixth and II, Sixth
and /, Sixth and j, Sixth and l., Fifth
and G, Fifth and i. Fifth and G..
Fifth and II, Seventh and e. Fourth
and G, Third and G, and G and Main
and n. Main. There are now rs
32c. D lamps in service. The removal
of 10 leaves 80. In addition 10 these
80 now in service, four new 32i
have been ordered on Iowa Ave. and
two ON North Fifth street and two
have been petitioned for on Ninth
street.
We recommend that 32 C. p. incan.
descent lights be installed at the fol-
lowing places, viz: Fifth and j,
Fifth and b, Fifth and d, Seventh
and f, Fourth and +, Tenth and M.
Ninth and |, and Ninth and j, and
Ninth and NJ, Ninth and 1, and Ninth
and ]. These eight lights with the
80 now in service and the six order
cd but not installed, will make ~
80 c. p. incandescents We further
recommend that the nine arc lights
be accepted.
We also recommend that the incan'
descent at Seventh and j be trans
ferred to Seventh aud / and that the
one at Fourth and f, be transferred
to Fifth and +.
The matter Of the two arcs to be
maintained by the Southern Pacitic
Railroad Company should now be
urged as the need Of more lights
about the depot is very apparent.
The ordinance prohibiting the leav-
ing of bicycles ON sidewalks ard IN
halls and stairways was defeated on
is last reading.
Ordinances were passed providing
for granite sidewalk Gu the east
side of Eighth street from r. e
Meade street and on both sides of /
street, in Railroad addition from
Eighth to West h street
Councilman Williams called atten'
tion to the fact that garbage was
being dumped into creeks that flow
through the city, and also being
dumped ON vacant property. As
there is an ordinance against the
dumping Of garbage in streams, and
on streets and vacant property the
marshal and street commissioner were
ordered TO be- on the lookout for viola.
tors of the ordinance and to have
them arrested. Each of the council
men volunteered TO report any viola
tion that came to their notice, SO
there isa likelihood of the ordinance
being inlorced aud the city treasury
enriched by several dollars. Council