The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24

in the wooden staYe pipe itself they
are placed from u to l2 inches apart
and amply strong because of the fact
that there are 5000 feet of the original
stave pipe doing good service at the
present time, If. as they claim t there
were $4,000 feet of lumber used. tnen
they used 81 feet Of lumber per hneal
foot of pipe repaired.
sNr. Gowans said before tbs invSsti~
eating committee that the city engineer
told him to put the concrete around the
wooden stave pipe under the oregon
Short Line tracks two feet thick. ana
at other places eighteen inches on DOT.
tom, eighteen inches on sides ana
twenty-four inches on top. Gentlemen
they might as well have put 1t twenty
four feet on the top, so the people could
have seen it forever as monumentAI
piece of folly. Mr.. Kelsey said, In the
committee room. that he gave no IN
structions whatever in regard TO this
matter When this bill first came be-
fore the city council and was under
whether he approved of this method or
remedying the defects that had de-
yeloped in the pipe, and he answered;
Homer Read, cost clerk to Mr..
Moran. falling to appear on Saturday
last before the committee, as promised
by Mr.. Gcwans the day before, the COM
mittee adjourned till Monday, and re-
quested Mr.. Rives of the city recorders
office to write Mr.. Moran to kindly
have Mr.. Read appear before the COM
m1fTe6 at y a. M on 1OnQdJs MI ANCetO
still falling to attend, the COMMITTEES
considered the matter under tnveStlga-
tion and unanimously resolved to re-
port to the council that the bill be de-
MED and all the papers in the case
M Raybould, Mr.. Hall and myself
signed the repOrt-Mr. Black and Mr.
Martin apparently experienced change
, of heart and disappeared. Mr.. FernstrOm
was not present al the last two meetings
of the committee. The chair ruled there
was nothing before the house, the report
not being signed by majority OF the
( committee Mr.. Fernstrom, who was pres
( ent, could have signed this report, but did
not, and thus the matter would nave
ended until Mr.. Moran took the matter
! into court, where his witnesses would have
! testified under oath and been subjected
I to cTOss-examinauOn; then Mr. Moran
| and the city as well, would have had
/ what they are both justly entitled gto-a
/ square deal. no more, no lees.
/ 'tSOme seven or eight years ago was
/ a member of the board of public works.
/ There was a contractor who had been
/ awarded q contract and was very anxious
| to proceed with his work. but the board
/ declined to issue the order for the reason
/ there was a standing resolution Of the
council in the way. This resolution read
about as follows: When Is per cent Of
/ the abutters' portion of any improvement
/ has been paid into the city treasury, the
/ city treasurer Will notify the board or
public works, when the board of public
/ tractor to proceed with the work.
"At the next meeting OF the city council
| standing resolution so and so was amend
| ed to read Is per cent instead of 20 per
| cent. The board was then notified by
the treasurer that q per cent mad been
/ paid in. and the order to the contractor
was given. Some time later the condi-
I lions changed. Winter was approaching
and the board of public works was very
! DESTROYS that this same contractor should
proceed with another Job, and issued their
order accordingly. But the contractor
/ was neither ready nor willing TO proceed,
and did not proceed with the work. The
| board urged; the extractor paid no at
/ tentiOn. The council moved that standing
/ resolution so and so be amended to read
] IS per cent instead of p per cent The
board was snubbed and sat upon, as
usual, by the council.
Cottonwood Conduit Case.
Most of you. no doubt. remember the
claim for S9,000 recommended by the city
I council for bonus TO Mr.. Moran for COM
! pieting the Cottonwood conduit ahead of
the time specified in the contract. Err
4 Thompson VINO was mayor at the time,
submitted the proposition to the city at
j toTneys who rendered a decision that Mr..
Moran was entitled to $500. Mr.. Moran
and his friends If the council said $1,000
4 or fight. That Stubborn stalwart hgn-
minded mayor, Ezra Thompson, said 81, 100
or fight. Mr.. Moran went into court, had
a trial and took $500, and seemed to be
satisfied because the case was not ap-
pealed
Some four years or so agony friend
and business associate was still mayor
serving his third term in that office. Bids
were advertised for the paving of State
street to Seventh South. Main street tC
Ninth South and Fourth South t0 Second
East. There were two bids received, ont
from the Barber Asphalt Paving COM
Il Pany, the other from Mr.. Moran The
board of public works recommended to the
Il council that the bid Of the Barber As
phalt Paving company be accepted, and
/ the contract awarded to them.
THE council then discovered there was
something wrong. Their favorite had
been beaten, because his bid was S11 COX
or so higher than his competitor. This
i could not be allowed to pass, so the coun-
Gil ordered the bids rejected and in
struCted the board of public works to re-
| advertise. They did so and Mr.. Moran
was the only bidder. The contract was
approved by the council and forwarded
i to the mayor for his approval. But my
] friend the mayor didn't approve, so the
! politicians got busy and were Informed
that Mr.. Moran, If he wanted the work
would have to sign up for the price the
Barber Asphalt people proposed to do the
work for, or the contract would never BIT
approved by him.
$50, after some further. negotiations or
the subject, Mr.. Moran. came to the may.
or's terms and signed UP; and from tia
time to the present hour there has beer
no competition whatever for the pavins
of the streets Of Salt Lake with asphalt
Mr.. Moran is the only bidder on this
class of work, ard his price is Away.
) very much higher than the engineer s -es
innate.
Moran's High Water Bill.
During the high water season Of tn,
present year, you remember that Sunday
| on North Temple street. Mr.. Hall, cOun
Gilman from the Fourth precinct. saw
4 that the city employees were having NOR
trouble than they could we'll attend to
and went to Mr.. Morans superintendent
and asked him to send four teams and
forty men TO North Temple street to tn
and cOnfine the water in its natural chan
; mel Later the bill was presented to tin
, lcOuncil for something over $500. It wa
Preferred to the street committee, and hai
mot been returned to the council; nor will
1t be returned to the council till afte
the election is over. and probably no
then, because I do not believe the chair
imam Of the street committee can be force
to report favorably upon this Ubiquitous
J dastardly attempt to rob the city of Sal
Lake.
:. rive now come to the intercepting sew
err Since I have been a member of tn
, city council a bill for $4,000 was present
, ed by James Kennedy & Co, the con
! / tractors on this work, for extra pump
irg. After discussing this bill, II wa
Preferred to the city attorney. The at
torney reported TO the council that tn
/, claim was one which the city ought no
! Ito pay The council approved the bill
The mayor vetoed II. The council passes
, it over the mayors veto, and the bill wa
! paid.
'.During the past summer it was dis
? covered that ten of the manholes hal
never had any concrete placed in tn
: bottom of them. In addition TO this, the,
: discovered that there was a part of tn
sewer, some eight or ten feet III length
{ that had no bottom in it. Kennedy
: Co. made the necessary repairs, put con
crete in the bottom Of the manholes an