The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-25
CITY LIBRARY
TO BE built
Council Authorizes Purchase of
The BGnOit Lots
STREET PAVING AS
SESSMENT ROLL ORDERED.
Council VIII Grant Right to Oregon
Short Line to Change Switches Tn
der Certain Conditions.

The council Friday night authorized
the library board to close the deal for
the Benoit lots on which the option
would expire August 1, and the first
payment Of $1,000 will be made on the
purchase price at once, the remaining
$1,000 to be paid Immediately after
wards when the funds provided for in
the budget become available The
board have already taken the matter
up with the Carnagie Library board in
order that work may begin as soon as
the deal is secured The council at
the same meeting instructed City En-
gineer Bybee to prepare an assess
ment schedule for the Shoshone street
paving, of fifty twenty-five, fifteen
and ten per cent of the cost on lots,
depending on their proximity to the
paving, to be reported to meeting
later; ordered the city clerk to notify
holders of franchises which are sub
jcct to revocation to tell why they
should not be cancelled; ordered City
Attorney Herriott to make a code OF
the city ordinances and talked about
the Sixth street ditch and minor mat
ters.
The ShoshOne street paving may &c
to the supreme court for determine
ton if anyone cares to make a tes
case to find out what the last legis.
lature meant by the paving law. The
law says that all property fronting
on, abutting on, contiguous to or tri-
butary to any street which shall be
paved, if the part of the city be map
ped off in blocks, shall be taxed to
the middle of the block, or if in lots
to the middle of the lot Now the
lots affected by the Shoshone paving
district front on the avenues, so that
! if the tax should be levied literally tC
the middle of the lot it would simply
tax all the cost of the paving to the
half lot lying alongside the paving
City Attorney HarriOtt held, and the
the opinion was cOncurred in by May
or Sweeley and acted on by the coun.
ell, that in this case the law woulC
levy the tax to the middle of the block
as any other construction would be
confiscatory and therefore unconsti
tutional. 1t is conceded that there Il
would so hold but as the statut,
makes sense in the way in which they
interpret, and would be quite consti
/ JullOHdl, Iuty Say ludJ lne pfODdDllll.
is that it would be so construed by
the courts. When the assessment hai
been made up, time for hearing pro
tests will be set and notice thereo
published, after which the council viii
proceed to dispose of it subject to ap
peal to the courts. The council de
cided to grant the railroad compan!
the right to change it's switches, pro
vided that the Oregon Short Linz
would conform to proper regulation
relative to paving and the like.
Mayor Sweeley said that he ha,
been informed that cars had ceased t.
run on the electric railway and tha
according to the terms of its fran
chise the cessation of the running o
cars for one day would mean for
feiture of charter, provided that tn
city would declare such forfeiture. H
had heard that the failure to run wa
due to repairs and had no desire t.
be unreasonable, but felt that the cit,
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