The Dickinson press., 1907-09-14
CITY COUNCIL
N e Well Sta DIS t h e
Test and Pipes Will be
Laid atOnce. ore
Sidewalks, .

A special meeting of the city council
was held at the city hall Friday evening.
The object of the meeting was to hear
the report in regard to the testing of the
new city we'll.
The new we'll made an excellent show.
ing for the two days test, giving a flow of
70 gallons of extra fine water every min.
ute for 48 hours and the 81 feet of water.
at the high mark, could be lowered only
3 feet, still leaving 48 feet of water in the
we'll.
According to the above report every.
thing seemed favorable, and the council
voted to have an eight-inch pipe laid
from the we'll to the tower and instructed
the committee to 60 on with the neces-
sary work to get the water for the city.
The council instructed the city attor-
ney to draw up an ordinance to estab-
lish the tax levy for the ensuing year.
The matter of opening up the street on
the east side of block $, and block E in
South Dickinson was referred to a COM
mittee, who will do everything in reason
to make a settlement with John McDon-
ough for the land necessary for a street,
without instituting legal condemnation
proceedings. The committee appointed
by Acting Mayor kim consists Of Alder.
men Johnson, Richards and Roquette.
The city attorney was instructed to
draw up an ordinance, making uniform
rates for connections with the water and
sewer systems.
The council voted to present William
Littlehales with a check for $50 in part
payment for valuable services to the CITY,
for which no bill had been rendered,
Auditor Osborn's semiannual report
for the period ending August 81, ioo7,
was read, adopted and ordered placed on
record as follows:
Receipts-Cash on hand March I, 1907,
$33lo.16; fines, 4485.2o; taxes; S4846.I4;
license, 1898; poll tax, S127.25; dog tax,
S82; interest on deposits, $4o.I4; miscel-
l%aneous, $4o.87; state auditor, account
fire department., $32I.47; sale of bonds,
$4o,o4I.o7; sidewalk assessment, $soy61:
total, $63,5oI.oI.
Payments-General fund warrants,
$7683.Io; waterworks warrants, $36,17o.2o;
interest on bonds, $II5o; cash on hand
Sept. 1, 1907, $18, 8 .s7; total, $63,soI.o1.
Assets of city at close of business Sep
TENDER l., I9o7-Uncollected taxes, $3.50.
20; city buildings, 5000; fire apparatus,
5000; road machinery, $I75; real estate,
$500; pump, air compressor,J air line,
ETC., 5000; water mains and tower, ST..
600; cash on hand. all funds, sI8,5 $3.50;
grand total, $78, 1892
Liabilities of the city in detail at close
of business September Ist-Due on water.
works contract, $35oI; general fund war
rants outstanding, $783.51; water works
bonds outstanding, $4,000; sewer war.
rants outstanding, 5000; total, $58,784.
Cash On hand, different funds-General
fund, $3,667.65; water works fund, $I3,.
77o.87; sinking fund, sligo; total in ali
funds, $I8,588.52.
The petition from the residents whose
property fronts on Broadway in South
Dickinson for sidewalks was granted,
and the walks have been ordered put in
along the north side of blocks I, 2, 3, a
and $. The same resolution orders that
sidewalks on the north side be con.
structed on Cakes street along and adj
joining the north side of lot "a in block 4,
and on Barney street along and adjoin.
ing the north side of block 10 and in
front OF lots !, 2, 3, Il, SO, 2, 8, 9, 10, IL
and, IL, in said block.
The petition of the Heaton Lumber
Co. for permission to put in hay scales
on Willard street near the lumber office
was granted by the council.
The meeting adjourned subject to the
call of the mayor.
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