Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-06-21
COUNCIL DISCUSSES DOCK
TRADE WITH NIL WAUKEE
Considers Vacation Of Streets and Alleys
viii Settle Question Tonight

The city council met lhat might for
ne purpose 81 passing ordinances rs-
Iating 10 rho Second street dock and
the vacatlag Or certain streets and
alleys lii Forest Heights addition
The meeting was called 10 order by
w. " sander who pro-
sided because of the absence og
Mayor Hamilton and after the read
Ing 81 the minutes of the previous
meeting BIZ City Clerk TIFFANY the
reading OF the ordinance relating 10
the Second street dock was next taxi
en- up,
The Idaho a Western Railway
company ask that second street bel
declared vacant from the south line
OF what was formerly sand street
and extending TO and Into the lake
and that this city shall deed to the
said company all docks. wharyes.
ling property and riparian rights
to the said property within the honn-
daries described.
Ia exchange Tor this. the railway
company Is to deed the city a strip
OF land forty feet IN width for street
purposes on their land from
Sherman avenue and extending
through the lots on which the Occur
d'Alene candy kitchen stands ex-
lending 70 the Johnson dock and
thence q sixty-foot strip along the
lake and extending one hundred and
twenty-aeyen feet east. As the john
son dock will take up sixty-five Of the
one hundred and twenty-seven feet II
leaves sixty-two feet for the city and
In addition the railroad 10 to give title
to Atty feet Of water which added 20
the sixty-two feet viii give the city
water frontage OF one hundred
and twelve feet and extending oat
into the nayigable water.
The railroad will build a dock for
ty feet In width. joining TO the John
son dock and extending the same
length of that dock into the lake and
costing $4,000. The said dock will
be the same height as the johnson
dock and with slope to the lake on
the far end OF the same. The build
Ing OF this forty-foot dock will leave
seventy-two foot water channel In
front OF the dock. This forty foot
dock and the seyenty-two foot water
channel that fronts II Nv has been
stated Il to be decided to the city b.
the company.
There were many comments
and discussions on the granting of th'
Second street dock and Attorney
La Viene addressed the council IN
behalf Of a number OF the city tax
payers. he said. and protested agains
the passing OF the ordinance beeausl
be said II seemed 10 him that thu
city was donating something to tn
railroad and was not getting valu'
received In return. and he also salt
that the city council had no RICH
to pass such an ordinance and 9ha
was more he questioned the legallt
OF any agreement made By the cit
with the company because the sal
agreement was drawn up BY an agen
Of the company and that 1t could no
be binding for that reason. ~ he ha
no legal authority for drawing up th
same
]. C. White spoke = few words sal
Ing that he thought that the city vi
doing the right thing. but w. !
sfoll Of Spokane. who owns "a
stoil block, thought iust the opposlt
Considerable discussion ensue
J about whether James Walsh. the Nj
! waakee agent. had the legal authO
: ity TO make such an agreement vii
the city. McCiear. Black. ". 7. sto
and chamberiIn Joined IN ths diseu
sion over this point.
Discusses Forent Heights Vacation
The next ordinance to be read VI
for the vacation OF the alley In bio
II. Forest Heights addition. II
railroad owns that entire block.
The petition Of . number Of q
property owners IN that part OF Il
city was then read. II asked n
the railroad company should maj
certain improvements If this ali
was wasted and in addition It's pri