The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-06-09
Gas works.

&aS WOrES.
As will be perceived By The pro esd
'ngs OF the Common Council, contract
has been made for constructing works for
supplying the City with gas The sub
stance oil The agreement il, that Messrs.
Kilbourne & Herrick are to commence
The construction Of the works within
twenty days. and complete them by tie
LIST ot November next. Ry the same
time they are TO have laid two miles or
leading or street pipe, ana two miles
more are TO be laid by The ist OF juno,
1856.
he arrangements are all Is be made
~ basis of sufficient capacity for a
population Of 100000 The prices Of
gas are TO be the same with those in cities
Similarly situated, but not TO exceed So SO
per 700 feet. Public lamps to be fur
nished with gas, and lighted and exln
gdish-d al price not exceeding $50 each
per Year.
lhe statements IN the Gioty yesterday
morning in relation 10 The letting Of the
contract, &C., We are informed BY mem.
oers OF The Council, are grossly untrue,
as, We may say, en- pasSaft are the state.
n'ents concerning the City Printing,
which It dwells on again at length.
An ordinance in relation to the Gas
Works will he passed, putting the whole
mater Ia precise and egal form.
1sz- The Glory Of Wednesday don't
deny that in giving to the Postmaster a
statement Of their circulation. they included
the entire circulation of the daily and
weekly papers. Indeed. they acknow-
ledge having done So And vet they
knew that the letter list is authorized to
be published in only one paper, and when
The L. NJ. CALLED for statement Of their
circulation, they knew very well that he
wished to know the circulation Of The
daily paper alone Blu, they took techni
cal advantage of the manner in which he
framed his inquiry, (according to their
own sta'ement,) that is, on asking the
number of "our circulation ana in
eluded their entire circulation Of da;lv
and weekly. And Mey can't see why
this swlndling trick isn't all right Per
haps they cant. And perhaps they are
Dot 10 blame If they can't. Habit and
education sometimes sadly dull the moral
perceptions, and ii is charitable TO bear in
mind this fact, which often accounts for
an obllquity or obliyiousness Of vision.
The Glory speaks Of the City circula-
ton OF the Weekly Vino. We are Al
no pans 70 circulate our weekly in the
City. We prefer that in the CITY tho
daily should take lis place But what
It's circulation is, we don't know ourselves.
Tor We never counted and the Glorv nor
nobody else knows, for nobody but our
selves has the means of asccrtaining. II
mas been .fulseiy informed" that is all
- 'ossHI toti patause circulation oil tie
CARR and Glory. we have no more TO
say, than that We know ours has constant.
ly been and still is very much the largest.
But yet, what sort of an affidavit the edi.
tor will make in the matter, We don,
Know. We have no doubt he can beat us
10 affdavits. And they don't lack in
irlckery sufficient TO do what has been
done before, but what we shall never do
IN order TO get the p. Q. patronage, viz
get up fictitious circulation for short
time before the ailidaslts are required, for
the simple purpose Of swearing by.
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