The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-04
CONSIDERED BID 4 !
TRIFLE Low
Offer of $25 for Street Railway
Franchise Held By Council For
One Week, Seeking a Slight .

One week, Seeking a Slight
Raise.
Bids for the sale of the street
car franchise in the proposed Hib-
bling Gilbert circuit, were opened
by the Virginia council Tuesday
evening, the only proposal sub
mitted being that of the Mesaba
Railroad Company, Oscar Mitchell
president, in which the munif-
cent offer of $25 was made for the
right to enter the city and traverse
certain streets.
This offer was looked upon by
the members of the council as a
mere trifie below par, being insult
icient to pay for the necessary
cost of publication of the fran
chise, and the granting of the
franchise was laid over for one
week, the clerk being instructed to
correspond with the company in
the meantime to ascertain if the
price could not be raised to a GER
tain extent.
The council at this meeting &C.
cepted a report made by Alder
man Kimball, chairman of the
light and water company to install
an arc lamp at the corner of Ash
and Mesaba and at the corner of
Fourth and Fifth, Fifth and Sixth
and Sixth and Seventh in the
North Side Addition, and n.y.
drants at the corner Of Spruce and
Railroad and at the west end of
blocks 7 and IL, Pillsbury Addi-
ton. This latter innovation is
greatly needed by the residents in
the new addition to the city, which
IS well built up and where the only
available water supply at this time
is taken from hydrants in the
North Side Addition.
An opinion filed by the city at
torney upon the validity of the re-
quest of the special county attor-
ney for the liquidation of ten per
cent Of the liquor license fees COL
lected by the city from January l,
1910, to date, was read, the at
torney's opinion that Virginia be-
came recognized as a city of the
third class and therefore exempt
from such assessment on January
LIST, last. Under the law, as sus-
tanned by the supreme court, the
city was liable for the ten per cent
for portion of the year 1910, and
city warrant in the sum of $4,000
was ordered drawn in favor of the
county in payment of the claim
The money thus collected, under
the law, goes for the sustenance of
an inebriate asylum, and the
ranges are certainly entitled to
pay their share for such a place.
The building line ordinance on
Maple street came up for it's Sec
ond reading, but was temporarily
laid on the table owing to certain
errors discovered in the original
draft, and the attorney was in
structed to draw a new ordinance
taking in only property abutting
on Maple street proper. The val
idity of such an ordinance has
been questioned by some, but as
to whether or not it would "hold
water' is a matter for the courts
to decide should a test ever be
made.
The municipal court showed it
had not become affected by any
lizard times' as yet by turning in
report of $247. 40 as the receipts
for the past week, and business in
prospect being still better.
A. c. Emmons was granted a
liquor license for the new Shaned-
ling building on west Chestnut.
and number of petitions for sew
er service and sidewalk improve
ments were referred to proper com
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