The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-07


cd and the appoIntment confirmed by
the city council last evening. The
ordinance fixes the salary of the food
inspector at 500 and the adoption
of the communication last night made
q further allowance OF $40 per month
for horse hire, and incidental expens-
| es as purchasing agent Mr. Hoyt
will be required TO attend to the du
ties of both food Inspector aud pur
chasing agent on the same salary
BY consolidating the offices the city
is virtually being saved 500 per
month.
The mayors communication. veto
ing that part Of the pay roll of the
sanitary department providing for the
payment OF the salary OF Nels Nc
Carty. an assistant in the health de
partment. was received and the veto
was not sustained. The vote being
z TO l against the veto. as follows:
For the veto-Dana.
Against the Veto-BrowniDg. Aus
tin, Flygare, Peery, Wilson. Dickson,
Barker
Larson and Humphris being absent
The reasons given by the mayor
for exercising the veto power In this
instance were that he did not con-
slider it proper charge against the
city. but matter belonging purely
TO the health department After the
action in passing the salary over the
veto. the council. by a unanimous
vote. referred the question to the
sanitary committee for investigation
The recommendation of the mayor
to take up $1,000 worth of outstand-
ing improvement bonds each year.
rather than creating a sinking fund
for that purpose. was unanimously
adopted by the council ana II was au-
thorlzed that three bonds offered for
sale by u. Joseph without premium
be purchased at once, This will re-
duce the interest on the bonds and
remove the money from the banks.
Upon the recommendation OF the
police committee. 1t was unanimously
declared that beginning June 1st. the
patrolmen of the city he paid $40 per
month instead of $50 The police
mon pctitioned for the raise In their
salaries some time ago hui the COM
mittee did not report until last nIght
communication was received from
the mayor. stating, that his life had
recently been made burdensome be-
cause of complaints from citizens
over the street sprinkling and he
urged that some definite action be
taken to remedy the present defects
The mayor recommended that the city
be divided into sprinllling districts,
in charge of competent persons Tho
communication was ordered filed, but
later on In the proceedings the rec
| II ih. tt,-a
were incorporated in provision that
the street supervisor take charge OF
the sDrinkllng of the streets
Contracts for city Improvement
work aggregatne $l3.296, were award
ed 10 the Moran Contracting company
by the city council last night These
improvements consist Of the install
alton OF sewer extension in Dis
trict l03. comprising Moffatts lane
and Capitol avenue, the paving of
Canal avenue In District 101. and a
sewer extension in District 104, which
comprises a portion of Harrison ave
nue and yIcinltyuo
The Moran company's bid was the
lowest received The following bids
were opened and read by the city re-
corder; Sewer District l03. Moran
Contracting company, $3.50: J. p
O'Neill Construction company. 1880:
Wheelwright Construction company.
$i5S5. This work Will be completed
In 40 days. The bids for the work in
sewer district l04 were: Moran Con
tracing company. s6297: Wheelwright
Construction company. S779450; ]. P.
| ONeill Construction company, sS210.
The contract requires the work TO
be finished in Go days.
For the Work in paving district 1O1.
the bids were Moran Contracting
company, s3439; ]. P. O'NeiD Con
struction company. S3920 Wheel
wright Construction company, 5000.
The work TO be completed In sixty
days
The conference held with the of.
iicials of the Utah Light and Railway
company by the city officials last week
looking TO reduction OF the present
excessive lighting rates il Ogden did
not bear fruit. as evidenced at the
city council meeting last night when
on motion of Councilman Austin an
adjournment was ordered until tonight
when the members OF the council
with the mayor and city attorney. will
meet for the purpose of discussing 4
proposed ordinance to be prepared by
which the rates can be adjusted
Buy Spraying Apparatus.
II was decided last night upon the
recommendation of ]. w. F. Volker
and F NJ, briggs of the board of park
! commissioners TO purchase a spraying
apparatus TO be used on the lawns and
trees of the city parks for the deStruc
uon OF insects An appropriation 1f
$500 was ordered for this purpose
Councilman Austin and Barker voted
against the appropriation,
A committee composed of Oscar d
Madison and A. l. Brewer. appointed
to handle tho financial end Of the G.
a II. encampment held several months
ago reported that all claims and ac-
counts had been paid and that there
| remains $272.46 This was ordered
turned back into the city treasury on
motion OF Councilman Flygare.
Create SprinkIino Districts.
! How To best handle the sprinluiag
of the streets OF Ogden city was the
occasion for considerable debate A
communication was reod from the ma
yor recommending that the city be
divided into sprlnkling districts. Coun-
| Gilman Flygare expressed himself In
favor Of the old sysi@m aud the en-
| ployment of a sprinkling superintend-
| ent to look after the work. The
| sprinkling OF the city streets costs
| $1,000 every month. yet tDere nave
been numerous complaints iatoly that
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