The herald., 1896-02-01
THE YEARS WATER RATES
The Council Will Fix Them
This Month
TO BE CUT JUST ONE-HALF
The Water Company Files Its Annual
Statement
Some Figures Of Interest Are r1ade Public.
Only Little Over $4,000 Was
Really Earned Last Year

The time is approaching when the water
rates for the ensuing year must be fixed.
The council is required to do this at any
meeting during the month of February.
The present rates are to be cut just in half
if Councilman M. p. Snyder, who is very
much interested in the matter. can bring
this about. Snyder is member of the
water supply committee, which will have
the subject in charge, the chairman of the
committee being Councilman Frank Mum
son.
The water company regularly files an
annual statement, showing it's re-
ceipts and expenditures, which state
ment is intended to form the bases
for the rates to be charged to be charged to
the consumer. Then the council adopts
the ordinance fixing the charges for the
public, which is usually observed more
in the breach than in any other manner.
This farce has been en- acted for years, and
the curtain is about 10 be again rung up
for the latest rendition of the play.
The following was officially filed last
evening:
To the council of the city of Los Ange-
les: The undersigned city water company
hereby submits to your honorable body a
detailed statement showing the name of
each water rate payer, his or her place of
residence and the amount paid by each of
water rate payers during the year pre-
ceding the date of this statement, and also
showing all revenue derived from all
sources, and an itemized statement of ex-
penditures made for supplying water dur
ing the time intervening since the last
s atement made by the undersigned TO
your honorable body.
In making this statement the under
signed is not to be held or deemed in any
manner as waiying its rights under its con-
tract or agreement with the city of Los An
geles in relation to he furnishing the in
habitants of the city with water. And it
does now, as it has ever heretofore, assert
and claim that the water rates to be
charged and collected for the supplying of
water are fixed by said contract and not
subject to revision or change by your hon
orable body. But the undersigned is now
and ever has been ready aud willing to fur
nish your honorable body with any infor-
nation that may be necessa ary or
reasonable for /. full understanding
of the business of this company,
and this statement is rendered for the pur-
pose of placing before your honorable
body information as to the facts of the
business of this company, that the under
signed deem reasonable that the city
should know, in view of the rights of the
city under said contract. And the UNDER
signed protests against any use being made
of this report as a basis upon which to fix
the rates that shall be charged and collected
for water furnished to the inhabitants of
the city of Los Angeles. All of which is
respectfully submitted.
The above is signed by S. H. Mot as Sec
retary of the company.
Accompanying the report and part of
it, is {. statement of the water company
for the twelve months from November |,
1894. to October 81, 1895, showing the
following facts:
Receipts Material and labor, $1OS9.12;
service connections, S24 ,0S5.35; rent for
house. SOC; water rents, $500 1886 50 !:
bills payable. $50, 600; making a total of
$492. .9O7.29.
Expendltures-Genera expense account,
SAT ,O07.5l; construction account. $780,
702.Oi; maintenance, $57 ,513.47; inter-
est. $33.S25 "a; bills payable, $4,000:
land, $2429.5O; dividend, SOS, S,52S; max
ing total of $535, ,005.73.
The statement and letter to the council
are embodied in book consisting of 3S2
pages. which gives the name of every rate
payer in the city. The number of families
in Los Angeles, according to the volume, is
nearly $4,000, which does not, of course,
include the persons, families and others
who reside in lodgings or at the numerous
hotels.