The record-union., 1897-03-02


Mayor and President of the board be
authorized to employ an expert to es-
innate the cost.
| ToZer said the city should not ad-
vertise the fact that it had to run it's
| electricity by steam. 1t should figure
on the cost of lines, buy a dynamo and
! then advertise for bids for power and
it could get it from the existing compa-
nies
/ Pennish said that he had figured up
the cost of the plant for help alone
and it amounted to S16,50O year
alone. He did not see where the city
could save so much as has been said
DeVlne said the present engineer of
the city could furnish the steam for
the electric plant without extra cost.
Bentley asked Mr. Ridley to address
the board in relation to the cost of
electricity by steam, and the latter
said that the cost depended on the
class of machinery used The water
power here had cost $4,000, 600 and in
| terest must be made by the company
on that amount. He had installed a
plant in San Francisco with wires un-
derground in which he furnished arc
lights at 81 20 each a week till Il
o'clock, or - % a week for all night
Light could be furnished at one cent an
hour, not counting investment, interest
and deterioration of plant.
Leonard said the board was not here
TO take care of the interests of any
company that is established here, but
should look after the interests of the
city, and he believed the people were
in favor of the city's doing it's own
! lighting. There should be expert ex-
animation that would estimate the cost
of a plant.
Kent said he had a communication
from two large companies agreeing to
| furnish complete plant for not more
than $50, 600
The motion to employ an expert was
carried.
A petition to improve NJ street, from
TWenty-ninth to Thirty first. with
macadam, the city to pay half the cost
and the property owners to pay the re-
mainder, was read.
Street Superintendent Croly said the
two blocks were impossible and the
citizens were unable to improve the
street and several business firms had
promised to contribute
! The matter was referred to the Street
Committee
MISCELLANEOUS.
B. Labs asked ninety days more time
! in which to complete his contract on
the alley between L and NJ, Seventh
and Eighth, and it was granted
Kent asked that the Superintendent
of Streets be instructed not to accept
| Twelfth street until it has been in
/ spected by the board, as the center is
! as Hat as pancake and will be lower
than the sides in a year or two; Nine
teenth street is in the same condition.
| He did not like the new way of grad
ing streets. The motion was carried.
On motion of Pennish the City Sur
Veyor was requested to meet with the
board next week and consult with it
in relation to grades on new macadam-
lied streets
CITY OFFICIALS REPORTS.
City Collector Robertson reported
| collections for February as follows:
Water rates, S5,059 %; taps, $50; city
| licenses, $2,214 30; saloon licenses, 81
| 900; dog licenses, SO 30; cemetery
! dues, SOD; harbor dues, $125 %: city
| taxes, Sl,6O6 O2; rent Of roller, $40
| sale of cinders, 81 so; total, ST. 1863 80.
City Treasurer Carmichael reported
| balance on hand February 1st, $685.
S63 81; receipts during month, $50
S2S %; total, $3.50, 691 ~: warrants
paid, S33, 165 As; coupons paid, $50, 9S2:
total disbursements, $6G. 147 As; bal
ance March 1st, 1923, ,543 a.
Superintendent Of Streets Croly re-
ported expenditures as follows: Street
departments, S613 30; sewer depart
| ment, S3SS; total 81 .001 80
City Surveyor Mulleney reported 13,-
036 feet of sidewalk and 24S feet of
curbing surveyed The Twelfth street
macadam improvement is all finished
from to r and that on Nineteenth
street is progressing well. d street
| from Tenth to Eleventh is in the same
unfinished condition reported last
month, as is the alley between L and
NJ, Seventh and Eighth streets.
! Water Assessor Nash reported 80
new water takers at $40 a month.
Poundmaster Cooksley reported II
! horses, l COW and IS dogs impounded
OF these t9 dogs were killed 9 redeem
| ed and 10 cattle redeemed. Fees re-
ceived $14 90
Chlef Engineer Guthrie reported the
apparatus in service and reserve all in
good order except a few nominal re-
| pairs that are needed. One of the horses
on Engine No. 3 has died of kidney
trouble and he recommends the pur-
chase of new team the remaining
horse being placed in reserve and one
of the reserves to be disposed of. being
unfit for service
klng SllVa's petition for a saloon IL
cense at l30 L street was referred to
the Chief Of Police, and that of Hanlon
q Gunther, at SOC X street. was
granted.
The city Street Improvement Com
pany was granted sixty days addi-
uonal time on their Nineteenth-str
/ contract on account of water.
A communication from the CORPORA
tlon counsel in regard to the Cunning
nam claim for putting in a foundation
Tor the electric motor was read, saying
that II 1t was for putting in the motor
1t should be paid by the Electric Com
pany, and if for putting in the founda-
uon the city would have to pay it.
superintendent of Streets Croly ex-
planned why Mr. Cunningham had
placed the foundation under his orders
and that he should be paid. He thought
/ the Electric Company should paw for
the work by having it held out of its
pay.
McKay's motion to nav the bill was
! lost by tie vote and the Clerk was
directed to notify the Electric COMPANY
to pay the bill
The ordinance fixing water rates was
read and adopted unanimously.
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