Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-13
THREADING OF WATERWORkS OPTION OCCUPIES CONsID-
 ERABLE TIME.
ARRANGEF0RSTREETN NUMBERS
UNINTEREsTING SESSION DE VOTED TO BUSINESS OF RoU-
 TINE CHARACTER.


 Water company, granted Councilman Higdon a permit for the erection of 8 two-story brick building, granted per nit to John Holohan for the building of small structure near Pinal creek, agreed to allow the Silver Belt 10 num- Der the houses in the city, approved about $2700 in bills, turned down tke petition for Improvements in Mesquite street, approved the appointment of Wirt Anderson as a deputy city mar shal and turned down request of the Globe National. bank for a reduction in assessmentn.
 7:30, the change to the new city hall having not yet been made. Mayor Al Kinney presided, with all of the alder men present, with the exception, of Al derman Wint House, who has not yet returned from Rochester, Minn., whith- CT he has taken his wife for treatment.
 It was q humdrum, business meeting, very little new work being brought up for discussion.
 The reading of the option given the city by the Pinal Mountain Water com pany on it's plant, fixing a price of $l60,000 on the property, plus the cost of what Improvements have been put on or may be put on before May 10, next, elicited some discussion as to what the probable cost of these i'm provements might be, and it was sug gested by City Attorney Alfred that it might be wise to have committee appointed to confer with J. N. Porter on the subject.
 Under the head of building permits, Alderman II. L. Higdon, who recently purchased from F, l.. Jones sixty-foot front lot in Oak street, opposite the Majestic theater, was given permission to erect thereon a twostory brick building. Mir. Higdon proposes to build 8 modern livery stable that will be readily accessible from the business dis trict. John Holohan was given per nit to erect one-room building near Pinal creek, adjoining his property near Cedar street.
 The change of the meeting place of the city council to the new city hall at Cedar and Pine streets, was finally decided upon. The building formerly occupied as county hospital has been thoroughly repaired and transformed into convenient quarters for the city administration, the work having been finished three or four weeks ago, and the offices of the city clerk ,and the city marshal were moved at once.
 c. l.. Mckinney of the Silver Belt appeared before the council to urge the granting of the permission to re-num- Der the houses of the city, on data fur nished by the city engineer. This per mission had been given at a previous meeting of the council, but it was sub sequently discovered that the work would call for a revision in the laws now in force, and these changes were agreed upon last night.
 The grading of Mesquite street was turned down after q rather spirited de. bate. Mesquite street residents, some time ago, petitioned the city council Ito grade the street. Subsequently. an other petition, this against the improve mont, was presented by J. Watt Hogue. MT. Hogue explained that number of the signers of the first petition, includ- ing himself, had been brought to a realization that the work would caIl for the moving of houses that would not stand shifting, and that the prop, erty holders did not feel that they could afford the expense entailed. The counter petition presented by Hogue was tabled at last week s meeting, but it was taken up again last night, with the result that the council decided that it would be advisable to leave the work alone for the present.
 Street Superintendent Floyd Blevins appeared before the council and report ed, concerning the resurfacing of streets with limestone, that he had gone over 120 feet of North Broad street, thirty-one feet wide, and that tho total cost to the city, including his own sal ary, had been $5s.40, the rock being laid about eight inches deep. Blew ins was granted another week to con tinue with the experiment, the indica- tions being that the council will decide to adopt this mode of surfacing for the streets of the city.
 Attorney F. J. Elliott presented him self before the council in behalf of the Globe National bank, asking that the assessment on that institution for 1908 be reduced. Elliott stated that the county assessment was 32,000, as com pared with the assessment of $50,000 made by the city, and he argued that this was hardly fair in view of the fact that the bank was closed for some time last year. The matter was debated at length, but the upshot was that tho council decided, on the suggestion Of the city attorney, to leave the assess ment stand.