Basis Proposed for Settlement
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c. J New Wellington High-Ciaus Coal .'c-b Printing is the best ROGERS & BLACK I] Lines Sole Agents Ptinu ttnwl VOLUME 1 Published Twice a Week PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1910. Price, Five Cents NO. 26. RATES ARE REDUCED REPORTS ON STREETS BASIS PROPOSED SEWER PIPE TESTS HISSED THE MAYOR Railway Commission Makes a Ruling City Engineer is Opposed to Granting FOR SETTLEMENT Vancouver Considers the Question of the Chief Kagistrate of Victoria Frustrated Against the White Pass Many Petitions of Relative Values of ln Attempt to Dismiss the Company Citizens. Them. City Engiiiter Board of Trade Endorses Recommendation Made By There Must lie No Discrimination in Reasons For Doing so Given by Special Committee Which Went Into the Whole Clay And Cement .Are Considered 'ublic Crowded Chamber And Show* Favor of One Concern Over Col. Davis in Each And Matters Referred to city ed Disapproval of • ourse He Another Case Subject of the G.T.P. Assessment on Engineer Was Pursuing Railway Lands (Special to The Journal) Quite a number of recommenda The city engineer of Vancouver re i Special to The Journal) porting to the board of works on the Vancouver, Sept. 13.—The railway tions were received in the matter of Victoria, Sept. 13—Mayor Morley's roadways, etc., from the city en sewer pipe tenders referred to iiiiti repealed attempts to oust City En commission has ordered a reduction gineer last evening by the council. Length Width and a'so on the relative porosite of gineer Smith came to a head lust in freight rates on the White Pass Present Proposed These were based on petitions re in feet in feet Assessment Assessment clay and cement sewer pipe gives night when tbe mayor recommended railway. This applies to rates on out ferred to him. Waterfront Block A 5,400 250 $1,000,000* $10,000 some information that Is of interest tiie dismissal of the official from No bound ore and concentrates bound in Prince Rupert at this time, when The engineer reported against the Waterfront Block C 2,000 25(1,000 25,000 vember 30. to smelters in British Columbia and sewer pipes are to be purchased. putting of a plank roadway on Waterfront Block E 5,100 300 3,000,000 1,000,000 In the lace of strong opposition, Washington. The old rate of $3.ii0 Fourth avenue betweer McBride Section 2, Block E 1,400 225 500,000 50,000 The bids for straight pipe, to be the mayor crawled and agreed to has been reduced to $1.75 a ton to street and Hays Cove Circle without Section 1, Block G 2,100 700 1,000,000 500,000 delivered in four months' time were give the engineer a chance to defend as follows: Evans, Coleman & Evans, tide-water at Skagway, and shippers proper grading farther than Young Section 7, Block G 4,600 • 300 1,000,000 50,000 himself against the alleged charges. clay, $19,315; Dominion Glazed Ce are to be entitled to the best ocean street. The rough grading of the Section 6, Block G 1,000 25,000 25,000 It was pointed out thai no charges ment Pipe company, cement, $24,- rate the railway has hitherto ob whole section should be done if it Section 7, Block 1 1,400 300 500,000 50,000 bad ever been made and last night were to be planked. 500; Gardiner Johnson company, tained for friends. The company Section S, Block 1 1,700 700 5,000 5,000 Mr. Smith's enemies took pains to clay, $26,265. Tbe fight for the Aid. Pattullo said that as there Section 6, R2 2,500 2,500 say that they never made any against must cease discrimination in favor award was between the first two con were some good houses going up here Section S, R2 1,000 1,000 him. of the Atlas Mining Company. cerns and the committee after hear it would be advisable to have the Section 1, Rl 3,000 3,000 The public had crowded the coun The case was based on a charge of ing the relative merits of c'ay and petitioners confer with the commit 5,000 cil chamber and hissed the mayor J. H. Conrad, who alleged that ex Section 2, Rl 5,000 tee of the council In the matter. cement sewer pipe debated from Al when he made the attempt to have cessive freight rates were imposed The planking of Seventh street be pha to Omega came to the conclu the official dismissed. on ores from Carcross to Skagway, $7,291,500 $1,726,500 * tween First and Second avenues was sion that the only thing to be done The city engineer has not been and on mining machinery and camp adversely reported upon by the en was to have tests made by the city long in office in Victoria, and from supplies from Skagway to Carcross. gineer. The report was adopted. engineer. The latter stated that the tiie first Mayor Morley has attempt This case also covered that of the At a meeting of the Board of in value. It was evidently a very cost of concreting the day pipe It was decided to adopt the report ed to belittle him. He was not the board of trade of Dawson City and Trade held last evening the report heavy assessment that had been would be in the neighborhood of of the engineer against grading Park mayor's choice for the position in the White Horse, both bodies joining in of the special committee that took up struck. $8,050, but against this there was avenue and Eleventh street. fp'st place Co bitter did the mayor making a complaint of the freight the .question of the G. T. P. assess Incidental to the settlement of the the extra expense of hauling and Tbe city engineer reported against become oi late in his criticism of the charges prevailing. ment was endorsed without a dis question of the assessment the com handling the heavied cement pip. planking from Ninth avenue to Hays official that he objected to the time senting voice. The basis upon which mittee will recommend that the G. T. Porosity tests had been made with During the proceedings Judge Cove owing to the fact that the grad that Ihe engineer took In conversing it is proposed the city might proceed P. be required also to grant the the result that the clay pipe was Mabee threw out the bombshell that ing was soon to be done. The re with the newspaper reporters of the in fixing the assessment is set forth necessary conveyance of park lands, shown to have retained 96 per cent the evidence adduced showed that port was adopted. city. the railroad had committed an il in the table given above. The various etc., to the city and make a settle and 99 per cent of water, while the The engineer reported against tha legality by allowing preferential rate blocks of land held by the railway ment in the matter of all outstanding cement pipe samples only retained petition for a roadway on Alfred legality by allowing preferential in the city are given with the water questions in dispute. 47 per cent, and 50 per cent. Ce street between Eleventh avenue and rates to one firm and also by not front measurement, the width, the The members of the committee ex- ment pipe which had been soaked in Hays Cove avenue. He recommend NOTED VISITORS HERE having placed a' tariff on the file in present assessment and the proposed • pressed their willingness to alter the iwater for three days held 75 .per ed a walk from .NMnih avenue to Hays accordance with the clauses contain cent and S7 per cent. The engineer Cove avenue. assessment. proposed basis for settlement in any ed in the railway act. particular If it could be shown that had not yet held tests for crushing Aid. Hildltch said that if houses The committee, which consisted of Prince Rupert Had Important',',Party it was not properly struck. and bursting resistance. Mr. S. H. Graves, solicitor, who Is were to be built on the cheaper lots A. J. Morris, Thomas Dunn, P. I. Pal Pay Short Call in', the President Morris urged that any also a big shareholder in the com plank ways must be provided. mer, P. to. Scott and E. E. Clarke, The representative of the clay pipe City pany, and who held the brief in its had gone very fully into the whole one who had any suggestions to make Aid. Mobley sugegsted that this be agents made the claim that as the behalf, pleaded ignorance of the i,ui-stion and gave reasons fit the should do so so that there might be referred back to the committee with other pipe did not come to the poro clause in question, but maintained meeting for their fixing of the pro no misunderstanding later. the opportunity of conferring with sity specifications the contract could Sir .Mackenzie Howell, .1. S. WllliSon, that under the circumstances which posed assessment and the radical re No one present had any proposal the petitioners. not go that way. On the other hand an I G. G. S. Lindsay Were De he cited, the railway was justified ductions proposed. In this work it to make altering the figures and Aid. Pattullo thought that plank the representative of the Dominion lighted With Place In making a special rate where the was explained that the committee without dissent the recommendation roadways should be allowed wherever Glazed Cement company stated that traffic was continuous.