The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-07
BUSINESS
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SPEEDILY.
CITY COUNCIL DROVE
THROUGH IMPORT
ANT MEASURES
CALVERT CAN FILL
UP A BAD HOLE
Paving Matters Occupied Greater
Portion Of Time Of All
City Officials

Depositing OF city funds, plans Tor
storm sewers, resolutions of intention
to pave, paving contracts and pro-
tests on various abuses featured the
city council meeting last night. There
| were many kicks and council started
its year by buckling down to straight
en- things out.
Two bids were received from banks
proposing to handle the city funds.
The money directly involved is that
from bond sales. At p! esent a fund
Of $4,000 is set aside for paying for
the fire apparatus. This money has
nearly three months to lie in banks
and the banks were requested to bid.
Heretofore the funds have generally
been kept in one bank The Guthrie
State bank has offered to handle the
money and pay IL per cent on daily
balances. The National Bank OF
Commerce Offered 2 l-2 on monthly
balances. Morrison made a speech
The Fifth warder said that the city
is practically giving away $500 a
month by allowing money to lie idle
In a bank when it could just as well
draw interest The bids were all re-
fel'red to the finance committee.
Citizens on West Warner avenue,
between Ninth and Fourth, protested
against heavy assessments and pgo
posed to avoid paying the assessment
for the storm sewer They said they
owned lots not worth more than $l25
each and were already paying $40
each on them. The council considered
proposition to break the storm sew
er at Ninth and run it on Ninth to-
Noble and assess the cost to drain
age distict This was referred to the
public improvements committee and
the engineer and city attorney.
The contract for the big West Sid
storm sewer Was let to W. r. Power
for S11 900 other bids were from r..
r. Kirby, 500 higher and an Okla
homa City firm $500 higher.
Kicked AS to Grades.
City Engineef Hooker put in kick
on the practice OF securing sidewalk
grades and never building walks He
also wished to know the policy ol
council as to giving grades of streets
People in many parts of town have re-
ceived different gracvs; they build
and improve on one and then some
body comes along aud cuts the street
Spurlock joined in the protest.
Sought information.
The city engineer also wished to
know what the city wished to do
about storm sewers and surface drain
age. Some people want one and some
the other and he was at loss to
know how to put a pipe line in one
block and raise ii to the curb in the
next one,
Paving of the Santa Fe right Of
way across Noble and Warner ave
nues was taken up. Mayor Farquhar
son and City Attorney Green we
told to take up the matter with the
road
Preparing to Pave.
The first resolution OF intention to
pave Logan avenue from Vine tc
Broad was passed. This is to be forty
feet in width and of sheet asphalt.
Notice OF final intention to pave
was given as TO Division street from
Cleveland to Washington.
Further resolutions were passed Oh
the proposed paving of Vine street
from Oklahoma avenue to Warner
avenue. Assessments haven't yet
been fixed.
Grade ordinances covering several
streets were read and laid over
Filing Up Low Lots.
One of the egular West Side rack
cts came up over motion To ALLOW
j. l.. Calvert to gradn part OF Set
euteenth street and use the dirt in
filling low lots. 4 he mayor said this
had caused trouble and he favored
keeping all the dirt. Morrison then
had one of his golden opportunities
for an oratlon and he grabbed 1t. He
said he and Calve.t t and Others had
been beautifully abused for trying to
improve the town; that lots the city
gets 81 taxes on are filed and I'm
proved so that the city gets SIS OF
$40. yet people yell that some folks
are stealing from the city" He IA
yorcd favoring the man who puts up
his money for paving and who builds
houses as against the man over on
the other side who doesn't pay any
thing.
Morrsons side won and Calvert
was given pc mission to remove the
hump in Seventeenth aud smooth out
the other section Durham, In his
first speech, took occasion TO line up
with the town builders.
W. Open a Street.
Purchase of land for the opening OF
Seventeenth street was ordered
There are several lots belonging to
Houghton and Carlin and they are
needed for the street. They should
belong TO the city by iglnal dediea'
tion, says the mayor, but the acqui.
sition was neglected and now there
is nothing to do bat pay for them. The
city is to confess judgment for 500
on each of the lots. The price is said
to be very low one.
April bills were approved The