CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-03-08


terested citizens, petitioned the alder
men to require future additions to
the city to turn over to the munici-
pality sufficient water stock to safe
guard the interests of purchasers of
| lots and lands.
Mr.. Rockafellow called the attention
OF the council to the rapid growth of
the city and the necessity of num-
ber of additions that would soon ask
admission into the corporate limits.
He said that in this section at the
present time water was becoming very
valuable and that landholders were
frequently tempted to dispose of their
water rights. In one case the own
ers of trac: of some twentysix acres
had disposed of the rights and when
the time comes for it to be taken into
the city it would have to be received
without any provision for irrigation
unless the council should take steps
to compel the owners to provide water
when the tract was plated.
The admission of plats without wa
ter rights would be to the detriment of
the city. Under the big ditch the
shares had been so apportioned that
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land. The cost par value of these
shares was 81, making the value of
the water stock So per acre This
stock was now selling as high as $50
an acre and in the near future there
was a possibility of the value becom
ing much greater
The prestige the present city has |
in its old water rights, dating back to
1868, should te continued and enlarg- Z
ed to the future city.
Mayor Coulter said that the last
council had passed resolution refus-
ing to accept plats unless the water
stock was turned over to the city.
Councilman Arthur undoubtedly voic-
ed the sentiments of a large number
of citizens when he suggested the wis
dom of making a city ordinance re-
quiring water stock with plats.
A committee from the Civic I'm
provement League-Messrs. ID. Il. Glib
son, T. NJ. Harding, G. w. Bethel, A.
H. Seely, Richard Houle, ]. +. Marr,
F. p Smith, c. G. Durkee and A. G.
Dickinson, appeared before the coun-
Gil. Mr.. Gibson speaking in behalf of
the committee asked the benefits of
the law whereby the convicts might
be worked on the public streets. Mr.
Gibson said that il was the under
standing that such an order had once
passed the council. but requisition had
never been made and there had been
no work done, Mayor Coulter said
that such an order had passed the
council but it had made no one re-
sponsible: that the resolution did not
designate any one to make the re-
quest. and no one had taken the re-
sponsibility.
Mr.. Marr addressed the council, say
ing that when the resolution was pass
ed there had been some discussion
about the convict labor law interfering
with the laborers employed by the
city, thus depriving them of a livli-
hood He said that he had taken some
pains to investigate the feeling of the
laboring classes in this regard and it
was his belief that they now under
stood that the use of the convicts in
no way interfered with their employ
ment
The laboring element realized that
the work done by the convicts could
not be done by paid labor. because of
the limitations of the city funds. That
work was in the nature OF extra work
which the city had no means to en-
ploy laborers for, and IL the convict
labor was not used under the law It
would not be done at all.
Mr.. Gibson said that the peniten-
tiary authorities were anxious to have
the prisoners employed; that 1t was
much more easy to maintain discir.
line; that the prisoners were anxious
to work. as their good time was very
materially increased, and their terms
of servitude thereby materially less
ened.
Mr.. Harding urged the council to
take the necessary action, asking that
the county commissioners make reQui-
sition upon Warden Cleghorn for from
twenty to forty men. On motion of
Alderman Orme the mayor was in
structed to appear before the commits
sioners urging their action and the
committee arranged to accompany the
mayor when he makes the request.
Petitions requesting the extension of
of a fourinch water main on Ninth
street to Harding's addition and on
Seventh street to Adams court were
referred to the proper committee. The
petitioners guaranteed that they would
use sufficient water to pay for the
extension during the next ten years.
DR.. p. A. Wade asked the council to
furnish lumber to place railing on
the bridge corner of Eighth and Pine
streets. He offered to do the work II
the city would furnish the material.
The attention of the council was
called to the fact that the light con-
tract expired with the present month. |
Mayor Coulter submitted the proposi-
tions of the cofnpany-one for five