The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-02
OGDEN COUNCIL
IS BUSY BODY
Large Amount of Routine Bust
ness Transacted by the
SOlOns.
RAPID TRANSIT PEOPLE
MUST CONFORM TO GRADE
City Prisoners Are Now to Be
Fed Oh Twelye-Cent
Meals.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 Inc tribune.
OGDEN. Aug. IA large amount of
routine business engaged the attention
of the Ogden city council this evening,
which has stood adjourned for the past
two weeks. In a communication from
City Engineer w. M. Bostaph. the ccun-
ell was informed that the Utah Light
and Railway company has been laying
gus mains in the city, which are not
projected with curb switches, making
il impossible to cut off gas from resi-
dences in case OF fire or other emer-
gencies. The city engineer pointed
out the dangers of such methods,
and suggested that an ordinance be
drafted which will require the proper
fittings for gas mains. The matter was
referred back TO the engineer, with in
structlons TO draft an ordinance cover
ing the matter.
The engineer also reported that the
drain pipes at the city cemetery have
become c!ogged with vegetable matter
TO such IN extent that the graves at
The cemetery are covered with water.
II may be necessary to remove the en-
tire drain and upon recommendation oJ
the engineer bids for the work will be
asked for.
As to Water Rights.
In a communication from Mayor
Glasmann the council was Informed that
the Ogden Bench Canal company, at a
recent directors meeting had passed a
number of resolutions effecting the
city's water rights IN the canal The
company requests that the city make a
detailed statement of lot of shares
held by the municipality at once, a
resolution was also passed by which the
city will be allowed to take its water
from any point along the canal deemed
feasible An offer was made TO lease
three cubic feet of water less than the
city's present holdings at the same
rate paid by the former holders of the
water works system. The resolution OF
The canal company was approved by the
council and the mayor S communication
adopted in its entirety.
In another communication the mayor
suggested that the light and telephone
poles on Seventeenth street, which the
city ordered removed week ago, be
removed under the direction OF the city
engineer without the usual fee of 81
per pole. as fins is the second time the
light and telephone companies have
been required to make a change Of 10
cation. The communication was adopted,
Must Conform to Grade.
Upon motion of Councilman Horace
Peery. of the railroad committee, the
city recorder was instructed TO inform
the Ogden Rapid Transit company 10
place its tracks at grade on Twenty
second street Immediately.
The matter Of having the paving DIS
tlict on north Washington avenue to
the Ogden river bridge added TO the
district recently created on Hutchinson
avenue was the subject of an extended
discussion. Some of the councllmen
wanted the Washington avenue paving
postponed until spring. 1T was finally
decided TO make one district OF the two
improvements and the city engineer
was Instructed TO advertise for bids
The engineer was also instructed TO
advertise for bids for the laying Of IN,
tersections on Washington avenue and
Twenty.third, Twenty fourth and
Twenty. fifth streets,
Upon recommendation of Chief or
Police Browning the amount formerly
allowed for meals for prisoners at the
city Jail was increased to u cents
Ordinances creating sewer DISTRICT
lO5 and lo6 and sidewalk district lo9
passed the second reading and were re-
ierred to the law committee and city
attorney