The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-10
GagateI!iqen1en
Gas Question.

L As to.mSrt6w might VIII 8eB ths
regular meeting 81 euEl City Council
| would desire 10 call the attention
Of the members of council, and
citizens generally to the enormous bill
made out BY the City gaS eohpdBy and
presentedt6 cou1dil at thsrs hst meeting
as for thepfice they would SELF their gas
works and fixtures at How this com.
pany can make such a bill can only DO
accounted Hf1r presume from the long
usage and Lost conscience they have had
in mAklng on unjust gas, service pipe
and meter attachment bills. That they
leel right making out Iany kind pth bill
they think best But we can tell them
this time, that they are mistaken, we now
have eqfhn hghts with uthom. They
can't shut of the gas II VIC don't accept
pndpsythis hilLt as vol sR ia
he What desire at thlsf time ,toleal NE
attention ol The city, council 70 IS, the
enormous prices they hive put 10 some o.
the QSadihE itemSI ms their Ibill Il l6ail
only conceive the object in doing so was
to try and blind some Of our citizens In
the way Of a scare in the amount Of money
u Ig9uld takeat0 ipqrehASe these Gas
WORKS I THEY certainly Gpipst have
thought our people were an Ignorant set
upon the cost Of S9as.B Works q ThaEprices
Pt6 thf'bilI' ate ~ least 100 per cent Above
|theyalue. 4 ! will say but little in regard
to the real estate; that we all know Is at
lessb6 per cent lshoVe Yhfuslbht via
pass 70 The next items enathe, bill Gas
cludihS eistern, " hieb & Believe Is 40 foot
diameter faia neglect deep, they put
al ui$9,0Q0lI (which can be built
and, put up complete for 5000. Cas-
holder No. 2, which believe Is 80 feet in
diameter, they place at $4,000, which l
know can be built and pnt there new for
$1,000. Contracts ofthis description have
been made In the last two years to my
knowledge, and eau be done to-day. Next
we will take the eight benches OF retorts,
which they'haYe put down, where three
fetorR are ID one bench, St $3.50 and
$4,000, which can DO contracted for and
put up newIRith retorts, pipes, hydraulic
main, brick and iron work, all complete,
for 81 200 per bench, which Is nearly two.
thirds less than tho price they put for
d.lshi9nql benches, With relofts half
burnt Aout, (which to-day could inot be
appraised a BY ,lSpy . Z EssB0psIBle ,..g AZ
Jrh9he& b6hcllsok these ifet6Fts Is worth
not exceeding 81 200. The. difference we
make in tho S3st i6f thess few a6iRs Alone
amountsto $4,000. Il That tisbetweaf the
construction efy al neY and the prifsthey
put the old gas loId erst and retort benches
at. An honest appraBement 81 tliese arti.
Giles and the same tak6Y ff0nt he l6hi6unts
footed up in their bill, would amount to
not less than $4,000. l have not time,
mol, do | desire TO trouble the, printer with
t6olldhg ahaticle In fhhhihe this bill clear
through, for tho whole bill Is OF the same
character Therefore We will stop for the
present. But we would urge upon the
City Council 10 be carotid In tic DIP.
pointment, Of IN arbitrator for the fixing
OF these pipes. It should be one
Of iouEqwp Gitfzpw of JhighchatacterRnd
standing one, too, who Is known to be
MONEY ahd eoSfpoSate 99onopol poll s'I are
without souls, and do not feel responsible
ever. TO their God tor what they may do;
and this Gas Company cannot be placed
above Cesars wife. q, Therefore. we would
say, look well, stand firm, and not be
scdred'by this oneegrand monopoly, that
has. used more power for the last twenty
years than the Pope Of Rome. We hope
their reign Is about at IN end. l''t
f,1,S,Isa Ioe,s7, CITIZEN