Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-01-19

.or a so-foo' vIde bridge or Sout
. Commr-cial street, % committee o.
bridges.
Resolution for sewer on Hoo
streets. from Twelfth street 20 river
90 committee o. sewers Adopted
Resolution for siK-,neh main q
Errlevood. Adopted.
Committee on nre and water De-
ported Tor purchase % 500 feet o
hose. ladder and smoke protectors
.doptcd.
Bidc on one block Liberty. Ccitag,
Church and state streets. vth ce-tL
het ohecEs by Warren Construction
Company Referred TO street com.
riuee.
M Grccnhaum asked Tor repair
. % cro,svak az state aud -Four.
teeuth streets Referred 20 com
mitiee on streets.
Nj stockton moved that stree.
committee BE- authorised 20 contrat;
Tor fair grounds road.
Mr Millard moved for erossvalk.
90 i7th and n and 18th and y street.
To committee on streets.
Another ordinAnce for improve.
meat o. streets Read FIRST Anl see-
ond times. To ordinance committee
Fire and water committee author
lied TO prepare plane and specihca.
tions for East salem FIRE department
Ordnance 20 license Junk dealers
Read hrst ard second times. To OF
diuanoe committee.
Petition for Sidewalk from end
street ear line on Twelfth stree
vest on Gross street. n street an
Llnooln street 70 Fairmount nm. Re
ferred TO street COMMITTEES.
Attacked strce, System.
Nj Hofer. Of the seventh varl
offered = resolution that $1,000 p.
81 aside for each o. the three "a
burban wards. the hfth. sixth an
seventh wards. for general stree, re-
pairs. crossValks. drainage. etc.
and that $500 % said sum be II
pended for one malt highway Lead .
ng into city.
Mr.. Hofer stated that the peopl .
In the anburbs were dissatisfied .
'evg so much Of the street funds pail
'y Them In the shape OF a mill and a
lalf tax expended outside % those
wards, and that In some % these su-
'urhs not ten eent7 on the dollar paid
By them Rad been spent there.
The total provision for stree,
unds this year 10 the budget Is SIC.
700 Part oi this money Is from otA-
20 sources The levy OF one mill
ND a half on the property OF the city
PRODUCES Sl2,Sss 6S. Net receipts
rom poll tax siOSl.60 Total a.
sgt taxes on property and people
q civ Sl3,sSie3. This is eQulyaleq.
o about s2ooo e. ward for each 70
De seven ward 90 The city.
The rccosds of the street ttpar,. I
nsnt show that Cor the past two ,
.ears thcrc has been done 2042N I
Laws labor by men aud 6SS. dsv- ,
sork vil nan ana team or maa ,
ma cart OF about 200 days 10 a !
Eari foy two years-
iuder ms sytem the three ~
'urbsn wards have net had $4,000 a
rear each expended uuder the y "a
g street vo-F street work includes
aearing sire ts buldias aad tear.
ns uP crossvalks. repair OF ersdlug
irestt, briiscs, culyerts and severe
Under ne sysiem the three subar- &
'an wards have not had so6 tays
'ach per AZ
The subureen var3s have sunersl
or lack of Improvement. They havs
'ot had ghc Improvements thcy are
.niitled 20, sae ther grovts has
'een hamPerot am nos sayius tsey :
hon4 have mnrh of the Stree,
unds a. The oleeF p1rts u he eiry.
.ni : am ssying they are sntitlea %
q least halt O, What they pay 70 b.
psut IL Their oEu eoaad4riss. II s
) Gals tsee
ne mayor fulod me resolutioa
az of oT ie-. bui Mr. Hotter askes
Aa' q miEhi b. referred 70 tAs siress
onm .ties' and asfel tAat thsT maks