Milford chronicle., 1891-02-27
Town Meeting.

d Tuesday evening last the adjourned
= meeting of the Board Oe Trade organ
/ izatiOn was held in Dorsey Hall. W..
e A. Humes presented the Constitution
and Bylaws which were read, and a
committee on enrolment appointed.
The meeting then went into the con-
sideration of the advisabiHty of the
town owning water and electric light
plant.
The committee consisting of Hon.
John w. Causey, Frank Richards,
Chas. Tuthill and Theo. Townsend.
which was appointed at a previous
meeting TO gel information, made its |
report through Theo. Townsend, who |
had visited several plants in operation,
and by submitting map of the town
for accurate measurement, had an es-
innate for plant q times the size of
the present plant made by the Thomp-
sOn-HOustOn Company. They pro-
posed to put two so horsepower boilers
and one l30 horsepower engine and
the electric plant complete for SIG, ,925.-
rs. These boilers will furnish all the
steam required by both the water
works and electric light plant, and
consume not over 200 tons of coal C}
So, ,25 per ton.
The report was received and the
committee thanked for its services.
DR.. George Marshall made an esti- \
mate of the cost of maintenance and !
receipts, and showed a clear profit of 1
500 without the town paying one L
cent for water rents t
Or. N. Pratt spoke of the advanta- c
ges the combination of the two works :
would be for the town, and clearly
showed that the works will pay for "a
themselves and replace themselves in v
twenty years, and the tax rate would "
not be increased more than S1.OO on n
lie thousand dollars of assessment. )
John o. Truitt claimed that the u
own must econOmize in its present n
light bill, or raise a special tax to re- n
,air streets. The tax now raised or q
IS per cent Of it, went into the electric n
light treasury, and he thought less d
light and less mud would be more to az
,e desired. cl
TheO. Townsend believed that if the =
own was to ever have water works = =
nd protection from fire, now is the =,
Ime to get it. He was in favor of be-
lg liberal in pricing the present cleo .
ric light plant, aud enlarge 1t so that ...
would be capable of doing the work -
squired. He Heaccepted the statements "
f the owners of the electric plant Int
ow 10 operation, that the works will An
ay handsome revenue on $4,000 on
ilhout the money received from the Flu
'wn for street lighting. and believed in'
lat the revenues from an electric J
ght plant that could take on new Re
,nsumers would soon have private Re, rs,
come of $1,000. He believed that
ater works can be built in conjunc- =
on with the electric light for $685.
0, and in this s. John AbbOtt's \
atement that Salisbury had a plant
at cost only So, 600, bore him out. OF
All the evidence offered was against for
a private company to put clu
lter works into Milford. For the taS
wn to pay a tax Of 40 or 50 cents on are
e hundred dollars annually forever
private company for light aud ing
lier, when it can put it in, and have dis
th for 30 per cent less. would be wa
ly. A resolution was adopted as the an'
lse Of that meeting that the town wa
ouln own both plaRts whenever ligl
ay are put in. The chairman an mo
unced that the election ordered for spr
Iursday was declared Off as the Il
.islatioa had not been passed by the to t
islature 10 time to hold it legally elec
d the meeting adjourned. has