MTLlg1.xml Guide to the Helena (Mont.) City Clerk records 1881-1918 Helena (Mont.) City Clerk records Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 1999 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Montana Historical Society 2006 Finding aid encoded by Ellie Arguimbau with assistance by Cuadra Associates 2006 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on APPM (Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts : A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries) Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives LG 1 Helena (Mont.). City Clerk. Helena (Mont.) City Clerk records 1881-1918 6.2 linear feet of shelf space This collection consists of records (1883-1915) filed with the City Clerk of the City of Helena, Montana. The largest segment of the records consist of monthly reports of city officials and committees. In addition there are correspondence, employee records, financial records, legal documents, specifications, subject files, etc. The strength of the collection is in documenting the development of the infastructure of Helena. 51:1-1; Oversize 33:5-5, 33:8-5; 57:2-5 English

Although Helena, Montana, was settled in 1864, it did not become a formal city until 1881. Prior to that, public functions were handled by the Lewis and Clark County government and by the Helena Board of Trade. Attempts to incorporate the city repeatedly failed in general elections. Faced with increasing needs for improved streets, fire protection, and sanitation, the electorate finally approved city incorporation on March 3, 1881. Subsequent amendments to the incorporation were passed in February 1883, January 1885, and March 1885. These were formalized as the City Charter, published in 1887.

The city was headed by an elected mayor and city council. The mayor was initially authorized to appoint a city attorney, who also served as city clerk; a city marshal; one or more policemen; two night-watchman; a street commissioner; a city engineer/surveyor; and a fire chief. The city clerk served as the custodian of city records, recorder of city council meetings, and counter-signer of all city warrants. Because he was official city record keeper, all reports by city officials were filed with him. The City Clerk also maintained files of all correspondence directed to the city.

The functions of the office stayed essentially the same until the commission form of government was adopted around 1912.

Records of the Helena City Clerk consist primarily of records filed with the clerk, not records produced by the clerk. Incoming correspondence (1884-1918) is filed by year. Within each year the correspondence is separated into "communications" (complaints, information, informal requests, etc.) and "petitions" (formal requests for specific action). Topics include public works requests, complaints about nuisances, and a wide variety of other topics. Court papers (1881-1917) include affidavits, several cases in which the City of Helena was a party, and "John Doe" cases concerning stray animals. Employee records include civil service applications; payrolls for the Fire Department, Police Department, and Street Commissioner; and letters of resignation. Financial records include a financial report (1911) and inventories (1891, 1894) of equipment in city offices. Legal documents (1884-1913) consist primarily of bids and contracts for work on streets, sewers, sidewalks, and other public works. There are also opinions of the City Attorney.

The largest series in this collection is Reports. Each city officer filed monthly reports on operations and finances with the city clerk. Included are reports of the Accountant (1907-1908), Auditorium Janitor (1910-1912), Board of Health (1884-1915), Building Inspector (1890-1914), City Assessor (1894), City Attorney (1888-1915), City Clerk (1888-1910), City Engineer (1887-1915), City Marshal (1888-1895), Examining and Trial Board of the Police Department (1912), Fire Marshal (1888-1914), Free Employment Agency (1912), Inspector of Milk, Food, etc. (1892-1894), Inspector of Weights and Measures (1890-1915), Library Board of Directors/Librarian (1888-1915), Light Inspector (1913), Mayor (1896-1914), Police Chief (1895-1914), Police Magistrate/Judge (1886-1912), Poundmaster (1906-1915), Street Commissioner (1887-1899), Superintendent of Garbage (1897-1899), Superintendent of Sewers/Sewer Inspector (1888-1914), Treasurer (1888-1899), and Water Department (1913).

There are also reports for various city committees, including Affairs of City of Helena (1890), Auditing (1893-1898, 1910), Building Licenses (1898), Fire Department (1888, 1898, 1908), Judiciary (1886, 1898), Library (1898), Police (1898), Public Buildings (1898), Sewerage (1886, 1898), Special Committee on City Clerk's Records (1898), Street Grades (1898), Streets and Alleys (1898, 1910), Taxes and Licenses (1884, 1898), and Ways and Means (1898). There are also reports on specific topics, including the sewer system, the water system, and the removal of a police officer.

Subject Files include the city water system, the sewer system, investigations of Police Judge Lincoln Working and the dismissal of four policemen (1910-1912), and street paving projects (1890-1897).

Miscellany (1880s-1910s) consists primarily of specifications for public works projects.

The collection is arranged by series.

Collection is open for research.

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana Historical Society Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search under these terms.

Chinese--Montana--Helena. Courts--Montana--Helena. Fire-departments--Montana--Helena. Law enforcement--Montana--Helena. Municipal government--Montana--Helena. Municipal water supply--Montana--Helena. Prisoners--Montana--Helena. Prostitution--Montana--Helena. Public +health--Montana--Helena. Public utilities--Montana--Helena. Public works--Montana--Helena. Roads--Design and construction--Montana--Helena. Sewage disposal--Montana--Helena. Street-railroads--Montana--Helena. Street lighting--Montana--Helena. Voter registration--Montana--Helena. Water-supply--Montana--Helena. Helena (Mont.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Helena (Mont.)--Economic conditions Helena (Mont.)--Libraries, museums, and theaters Helena (Mont.)--Medical care Helena (Mont.)--Politics and government Helena (Mont.)--Population Helena (Mont.)--Voting registers Montana Helena City Planning Water and Water Rights Detailed Description of the Collection Incoming Correspondence 1 / 1 "Communications" (correspondents include W.H. Ulm, Richard Lockey, Wadsworth Post No. 8, G.A.R., John A. Quirk, Curtis and Booker, James M. Ryan, W.P. Gleason, Jacob Switzer, Matt Carroll, A.C. Van Doren, Houston T. Reeder, Charles H. Snell) 1883-1884 1 / 2-4 "Petitions" (re street grading, sidewalks, flumes, sewers, police officers, street railroads, care of destitute, private bridges, Chinese laundry) 1884 1 / 5 "Communications" (correspondents include William Doran, Erastus D. Edgerton, Dutton and O'Brien, Walter W. DeLacy, George B. Foote, George W. Keeler, Western Union Telegraph Company, T.C. Power, George W. Storey, S.C. Ashby, A.C. Botkin, George K. Reeder, Fisk J. Shaffer, C.W. Turner, Lewis and Clark Clerk and Recorder re new cemetery, J. Crouch, George Booker fire marshal, John W. Wade, Helena Steam Power and Lighting Company, Andrew J. Fisk, L.W. Frary) 1886-1887 1 / 6-10 "Petitions" (re streets, sidewalks, sewers, street lights, water mains, business licenses, building permits, policemen, appointment of fire marshal, discharge of firearms, taxes, standard time, toboggan run, job wagon stand, street obstructions, Chaucer Street reservoir, militia, water mains, pawnbroker, Villard Addition) 1886-1887 1 / 11 "Communications" (correspondents include First National Bank; Helena Water Company; William Harrison; Mayor Thomas Fuller; W.P. McMannamy; John G. Rumney; Don Davenport; Bishop John B. Brondel; Porter, Muth, and Cox; Robert E. Fisk; George B. Worley; S.F. Porter; Burke and Fitzgerald; George Woolston; R.H. Kleinschmidt, Helena Gas Light and Coke Company; Gamewell Fire-Alarm Telegraph Company; E. Sutphin; J.J. Palmer; Erastus D. Edgerton; Knights of Labor) 1889 1 / 12-13 "Petitions" (re applications for business licenses, building permits, streets, sidewalks, water mains, etc.) 1889 1 / 14 "Petitions" (re nuisances and complaints: street and alley blockage by wagons and street railways, proposed streetcar line on Madison, condition of sidewalks, city dump, Chinese laundry, escape of exhaust gas, driving of cows on streets, police behavior, fireworks, proposed Villard and Hershfield Additions, low wages on sewer construction, unprotected prospect hole filled with refuse, Chessman ditch, price of cemetery lot, electric light wires, hack stands) 1889 1 / 15 "Petitions" (re proposals for gas street lights, granite crosswalks, electric fire alarms, cleaning water closets, street railway line) 1889 1 / 16 "Communications" (correspondents include T.H. Clewell, Pat Gallagher, H.B. Palmer, City Board of Health, City Treasurer, American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company, O.W. Jackson, Municipal Guaranty Company, First National Bank, James B. Walker, L. Bevridge, Charles T. Perry and Company, Trans-Mississippi Congress, John Abel, J.D. Thompson, Helena Electric Company) 1890-1893 1 / 17 "Petitions" (re streets, congestion of Main Street, crosswalks) 1890 1 / 18-20 "Petitions" (re budget reductions during Panic of 1893, request by W.C.T.U. for removal of houses of prostitution from Clore Street, use of auditorium, police, building permits) 1893 2 / 1 "Petitions" (re sidewalk) 1894 2 / 2 "Communications" (correspondents include Toole and Wallace, Helena Power and Light Company, National Children's Home Society, H.B. Palmer, City Treasurer H.F. Tilton, Buchanan Dillard, City Attorney Massena Bullard, R.G. Williams, Richard Hoback, F.J. Edwards, A.T. Newbury, Montana Central Railway Company) 1895 2 / 3 "Petitions" (re building repairs, use of auditorium, use of city rock crusher, bicycles on sidewalks, herding of cattle, boys hanging out at opera house, telegraph lines, garbage collection) 1895 2 / 4 "Communications" (correspondents include Charles S. Muffly, J.M. Clements, Henry N. Blake re grand juries, Richard Lockey, James Mauldin re cesspool, C.B. Sperry re "Old Cemetery" fence, Order of the Sons of Hermann, James Holleran, T.E. Crutcher, Peter Winne, A.M. Holter and Brother) 1896 2 / 5-6 "Petitions" (re streets; sidewalks; taxes; Merchants National Bank; prospecting in First Street; appointment of Isaac Hayes as policeman, signed by 55 African American voters of Helena; building permits; bonds; public library funding; use of auditorium; appointment of City Impounder; licensing musicians) 1896 2 / 7 "Communications" (correspondents include H.B. Palmer, Richard Lockey, John Wendel, E.D. Edgerton, Helena Power and Light Company, W.E. Cullen, H.R. Lovett and Company) 1897 2 / 8-9 "Petitions" (re streets, sidewalks, water lines, sewer, building permits, taxes, revision of city ordinances, Salvation Army Rescue Home and open air meetings, advertising banners, warrants) 1897 2 / 10 "Communications" (correspondents include City Attorney Massena Bullard, H.B. Palmer and Company investments, Sol Poznanski, W.H. Sutherlin, Helena Improvement Society, Helena Consolidated Water Company, International Mining Congress, League of American Municipalities, Attorney General C.B. Nolan, John W. Thompson, Lewis and Clark County Commissioners, A.H. Wieber, Police Judge Ed S. Walker, Labor Protective Union, Judiciary Committee, Charles W. Helmick, Northern Pacific Railway Company, J.L. Perkins) 1898 2 / 11-12 "Petitions" (re streets, sidewalks, sewer lines, water, warrants, taxes, lime kiln smoke, business licenses, building permits and repairs, use of auditorium, mining at Mountain Home Cemetery, proposed street railway line to East Helena, transportation of materials for construction of State Capitol) 1898 2 / 13 "Communications" (correspondents include League of American Municipalities, Helena Water and Electric Power Company, H.B. Palmer and Company investments, City Treasurer H.F. Tilton, Carl Kleinschmidt Jr., W.F. Darlington, State Capitol Building Commission, Helena Power and Light Company, Richard Lockey, City Attorney Edward Horsky, Helena Board of Education, A.M. Holter Hardware Company, Union Bank and Trust Company) 1899 2 / 14-16 "Petitions" (re proposed railroad to haul limestone and passengers to East Helena by Helena Power and Light Company, streets, sidewalks, sewers, electric street lights, use of auditorium, steam heat, building permits and repairs) 1899 2 / 17 "Communications" (correspondents include League of American Municipalities, D.R.K. Central Verein von NordAmerika, International Mining Congress, City Treasurer H.F. Tilton, Helena Power and Light Company, Massena Bullard, Gans and Klein, Helena Water and Electric Power Company, Building Laborers' Union #4, Richard Lockey, retiring city councilmen, Lewis and Clark County Commissioners, U.S. Census Office, R.S. Hale, Mary A. Cruse, Helena Board of Education, First National Bank receivership, J. Karatofsky, Arthur J. Craven, E.A. Carleton, A. McDonald and Company, Charles W. Hellmick, E.R. Tandy, Helena Water Works Company) 1900 2 / 18-19 "Petitions" (re streets; sidewalks; taxes; limestone quarry; building permits, repairs and removals; impounded stock; prospecting; warrants; rent of city road machine) 1900 2 / 20 "Communications" (correspondents include E.A. Macrum, Main Street property owners, J. Wendel, Helena District Telegraph Company, Richard Lockey, retiring city councilmen, Montana Medical Association, Helena Board of Education) 1901 2 / 21 "Petitions" (re relief from taxes, building permits, sewers, street repairs) 1901-1902 2 / 22 "Petitions" (re applications for licenses, building permits, etc.) 1905-1906 3 / 1-2 "Petitions" (re streets, sidewalks, sewers, alley abandonment for building of St. Helena Cathedral, firemen's wages, property line dispute on Howie and Ming Streets, use of auditorium, protest against allowing saloons on Park Avenue, taxation of church property, collection of city taxes by county) 1905-1906 3 / 3 "Communications" (correspondents include William T. Pigott re special improvement districts, Richard Lockey, Helena Water Works Company, livery stable on Park Avenue, League of American Municipalities, Helena Trades and Labor Assembly, Montana Independent Telephone Company, Butte Electric Supply Company, J. Miller Smith, Mayor F.J. Edwards, Judge J.M. Clement re grand juries) 1909 3 / 4-7 "Petitions" (re removal of prostitutes from Clore Street to Wood Street, saloon licenses, streets, sidewalks, sewers, storm flumes, plats, closing of alley, bill board on Rodney and State, dog license, underground telephone cables, building permits and repairs, use of auditorium) 1909 3 / 8 "Communications" (correspondents include William T. Pigott, Burns and McDonnell re appraisal of water works, T.J. Walsh, Massena Bullard, Helena Trades and Labor Assembly, Helena Light and Railway Company, City Engineer Charles W. Helmick, Board of Park Commissioners, Police Judge Lincoln Working, Mary E. McNamara) 1910 3 / 9-11 "Petitions" (re saloon licences, streets, sidewalks, sewers, taxes, use of auditorium, automobile garage, removal of stable, plumbing license) 1910 3 / 12 "Communications" (correspondents include Helena Water Works Company receiver, Helena Base Ball Company, Helena Light and Railway Company, City Engineer Charles Helmick, United States Public Buildings Office of Custodian, Mayor Edward Horsky) 1911 3 / 13-15 "Petitions" (re Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, commission form of government, saloon licenses, water meters, garbage men's salaries, use of auditorium, city purchase of water works plant, sidewalks, sewers, underpass to Fairgrounds, Catholic Hill privies, warrants) 1911-1912 3 / 16 "Communications" (correspondents include City Engineer William Jordan, City Treasurer E. Fischl) 1913-1914 3 / 17 "Petitions" (re city owned coal and wood yard) 1918 Court Papers 3 / 18 Affidavits 1896-1899 3 / 19 City of Helena vs. Galen Estate Company, et al. (re alley between Main and Park streets) 1916-1917 3 / 20 City of Helena vs. Thomas Granger 1890 3 / 21 John Doe cases (re stray livestock impoundment) 1881-1882 3 / 22 Clara McCormick vs. City of Helena (re injury) 1913-1914 3 / 24 James S. Smith vs. City of Helena (re water rights on Beaver Creek; includes abstract of title, 1866-1900) 1913-1914 3 / 25 Nora E. Wear vs. City of Helena (re damage to property by street grading) 1914-1915 3 / 26 Miscellaneous (includes complaint of I.L Israel; R.H. Kleinschmidt vs. City of Helena; City of Helena vs. Jacob Bihn) 1886-1890 Employment Records 4 / 1 Civil Service Commission (includes applications) 1916-1917 4 / 2-4 Payrolls: Fire Department 1888-1891 4 / 5 Payrolls: Police Department 1888-1891 4 / 6 Payrolls: Street Department 1888-1889 OvBx / 1 Payrolls: Street Department 1890-1891 4 / 7 Resignations from office (some in protest) 1887-1914, undated 4 / 8 Salary reductions 1896 Financial Records 4 / 9 Delinquent tax list 1882-1883 4 / 10 Financial statements 1896, 1911 4 / 11 Inventory: Fire Department 1891 4 / 12 Inventory: city offices 1894 4 / 13 Inventory: tools turned over to J.L. Koontz 1895 Legal Documents 4 / 14 Applications for building permits 1887, 1889, 1901 4 / 15 Applications for erection of frame buildings 1900 4 / 16 Applications for alteration of frame and brick buildings 1900 4 / 17 Bids: Lyndale Bridge 1887 4 / 18 Bids: supplying cordwood 1887 4 / 19 Business license stubs 1891 4 / 20 Claims against city 1886-1887, 1897 4 / 21 Contracts: auditorium repair and use 1898-1904 4 / 22 Contracts: bonds 1886-1899 4 / 23 Contracts: city hall repair 1887, 1904 4 / 24 Contracts: electrical street lights 1884-1898 4 / 25 Contracts: garbage removal (includes bids) 1891-1894 4 / 26 Contracts: hose houses, towers and wagons for Fire Department (includes bids and specifications) 1887-1901 4 / 27 Contracts: hospital and quarantine house of detention 1902 4 / 28 Contracts: jail prisoner board 1893-1901 4 / 29 Contracts: lumber 1892-1899 5 / 1-3 Contracts: sewer system (includes bids, specifications, contract with Gustavus N. Miller for whole system) 1888-1903 5 / 4 Contracts: sidewalks and crosswalks 1901 5 / 5-6 Contracts: street grading, repairs, etc. (includes bids) 1887, 1898-1906 5 / 7 Contracts: water system 1898-1901 5 / 8 Contracts: miscellaneous (includes census taking, flume, office rental, quarry, printing, copying lot books, repairing crematorium, telephones, rock, mining, searching tax roles) 1886-1913 5 / 9 Opinions of City Attorney 1890-1911 5 / 10 Ordinances (re incorporation of city and granting of fanchises to Helena District Telegraph Company and Rocky Mountain Telegraph Company) 1888-1913, undated 5 / 11 Resolutions of City Council 1884-1897, undated Reports 5 / 12 Monthly reports of city officials: Accountant 1907-1908 5 / 13 Monthly reports of city officials: Auditorium Janitor 1910-1912 5 / 14-19 Monthly reports of city officials: Board of Health (1891 includes weather statistics) 1884, 1889-1896, 1906-1915 5 / 20-22 Monthly reports of city officials: Building Inspector 1890-1899, 1907-1914 6 / 1 Monthly reports of city officials: City Assessor 1894 6 / 2-4 Monthly reports of city officials: City Attorney 1888-1896, 1909-1915 6 / 5-7 Monthly reports of city officials: City Clerk 1888-1893, 1899, 1906-1910 6 / 8-12 Monthly reports of city officials: City Engineer 1887-1894, 1898-1900, 1906-1915 6 / 13-15 Monthly reports of city officials: City Marshal 1888-1895 6 / 16 Monthly reports of city officials: Examining and Trial Board of Police Dept. 1912 6 / 17-19 Monthly reports of city officials: Fire Marshal 1888-1896 7 / 1-2 Monthly reports of city officials: Fire Marshal and Fire Department 1897-1899, 1906-1914 7 / 3 Monthly reports of city officials: Free Employment Bureau 1912 7 / 4 Monthly reports of city officials: Inspector of Milk, Food, etc. 1892-1894 7 / 5-9 Monthly reports of city officials: Inspector of Weights and Measures (1890-1891 includes inspection of milk and wood) 1890-1893, 1907-1915 7 / 10-13 Monthly reports of city officials: Librarian / Library Board of Directors 1888-1898, 1906-1915 8 / 1 Monthly reports of city officials: Light Inspector 1913 8 / 2 Monthly reports of city officials: Mayor 1896, 1912, 1914 8 / 3-6 Monthly reports of city officials: Police Chief (includes statistics on number of people arrested for violation of city ordinances and of state laws, number of people provided with housing, and money taken in for dog licenses, impounded stock, etc.) 1895-1899, 1906-1914 OvBx / 1 Monthly reports of city officials: Police Magistrate (includes lists of people brought before city court for misdemeanors, primarily drunk, disorderly conduct, and prostitution) 1886-1887 OvBx / 2 Monthly reports of city officials: Police Magistrate (includes lists of people brought before city court for misdemeanors, primarily drunk, disorderly conduct, and prostitution) 1888-1892 OvBx / 3 Monthly reports of city officials: Police Magistrate / Police Judge (includes lists of people brought before city court for misdemeanors, primarily drunk, disorderly conduct, and prostitution) 1893-1897, 1901-1902, 1904-1905 OvBx / 4 Monthly reports of city officials: Police Judge (includes lists of people brought before city court for misdemeanors, primarily drunk, disorderly conduct, and prostitution) 1906-1912 9 / 1-2 Monthly reports of city officials: Pound Master (includes lists of stray horses and cows; some months included with Board of Health report) 1906-1915 9 / 3-6 Monthly reports of city officials: Street Commissioner (includes lists of streets graded, gutters, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. built; some years also include flumes) 1887-1899 OvBx / 4 Monthly reports of city officials: Street Commissioner (includes lists of streets graded, gutters, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. built; some years also include flumes) 1906-1911 9 / 7 Monthly reports of city officials: Superintendent of Garbage 1897-1899 9 / 8 Monthly reports of city officials: Superintendent of Sewers / Sewer Inspector / Plumbing and Sewer Inspector 1888-1889, 1899, 1906-1914 9 / 9 Monthly reports of city officials: Treasurer (includes City Clerk, 1899) 1888-1899 9 / 10 Monthly reports of city officials: Water Department 1913 9 / 11 Monthly reports of city committees: Affairs of City of Helena Committee (includes audit report) 1890 9 / 12 Monthly reports of city committees: Auditing Committee 1893, 1897, 1898, 1910 9 / 13 Monthly reports of city committees: Building License Committee 1898 9 / 14 Monthly reports of city committees: Fire Department Committee 1888, 1898, 1909 9 / 15 Monthly reports of city committees: Judiciary Committee 1888, 1898, 1909 9 / 16 Monthly reports of city committees: Library Committee 1898 9 / 17 Monthly reports of city committees: Police Committee 1898 9 / 18 Monthly reports of city committees: Public Buildings Committee 1898 9 / 19 Monthly reports of city committees: Sewerage Committee (includes samples of 1890 sewage bonds) 1886, 1898 9 / 20 Monthly reports of city committees: Special Committee on City Clerk's records 1898 9 / 21 Monthly reports of city committees: Street Grades Committee 1898 9 / 22 Monthly reports of city committees: Streets and Alleys Committee 1898, 1910 9 / 23 Monthly reports of city committees: Taxes and Licenses Committee 1884, 1898 9 / 24 Monthly reports of city committees: Ways and Means Committee 1898 9 / 25 Monthly reports of city committees: re Brett warrants against Street Fund 1897 9 / 26 Monthly reports of city committees: miscellaneous (includes Committee on Ordinances, Relief Committee, Sanitation and Garbage Committee, Committee on Electric Lights, special ad hoc committees) 1888, 1898, 1911 9 / 27 "Last Chance Gulch Storm Sewer," by Gustavus N. Miller 1888 9 / 28 Mayor Frank F.P. Lindsay report to City Council 1906 9 / 29 Mayor Edwards recommendations re Water Company judgement 1901 9 / 30 Mayor's report on old and new water plants 1911 9 / 31 Mayor's veto message (re procedure for removal of police officer) 1890 9 / 32 Report of Emil Starz to Special Gas Committee 1907 9 / 33 Report on Oro Fino Gulch water diversion to Hale Ditch 1889 9 / 34 "Report on Sewerage System," by Gustavus N. Miller (plans and maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER) 1888 9 / 35 Miscellaneous items filed in "Reports" box (includes telegram of sympathy to City of San Francisco after earthquake, veto of ordinance for appointment of Milk and Meat Inspector, resolution re telephone controversy, list of water pipes overflowing sidewalks, notice of special meeting of Council concerning death of Police Judge John J. Grogan) 1906 Subject Files 10 / 1 Elections (includes poll books for 2nd Ward, 1884; 4th Ward, 1886; and 7th Ward, undated) 1884-1893, undated 10 / 2 Helena Consolidated Water Company 1896-1899 10 / 3 Helena Water Works Company (includes receivership) 1901, 1911 10 / 4 Investigation of Police Judge Lincoln Working 1910-1912 10 / 5 Edward Jordan property (re transfer to city for street railway line) 1892 10 / 6 Municipal bonds and warrants 1895,1899, 1905-1908 10 / 7 Police Department (re case of dismissal of four policemen) 1910-1912 10 / 8 Standard Engineering Corporation franchise special election (for building electric system) 1913-1914 10 / 9 Street paving: Main Street 1890-1892 10 / 10 Street paving: Sixth Avenue 1897 10 / 11 Street railways 1884 Miscellany 10 / 12 Lawrence Street assessment roll (lists residents, property description, frontage, and assessment) undated 10 / 13 SB 45 for meat and milk inspectors 1901 10 / 14 Specifications: City Hall plumbing undated 10 / 15 Specifications: fire engine 1913 10 / 16 Specifications: flume from Cutler Street to Edwards Street (plans in OVERSIZE FOLDER) circa 1884 10 / 17 Specifications: lamp posts 1913 10 / 18 Specifications: LeGrande Cannon Boulevard circa 1907 10 / 19 Specifications: residential gas and plumbing hookups 1886 10 / 20 Specifications: sewer system (plans in OVERSIZE FOLDER) 1889, 1908, undated 10 / 21 Specifications: street grading, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. 1902, 1908, undated 10 / 22 Statements of County Attorney R.R. Purcell and Police Chief William H. McCann re conflict between them 1896 10 / 23-24 "Miscellaneous papers" (includes releases of liability, claims) 1887-1910, undated