New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-01
financial.
$3,750,000
Kansas City, Missouri,
Gas Company
Five Per Cent. First Mortgage
Sinking FUND.-
Twenty-Five Year Gold Bonds

Dated April l. 1eo' Due April 4. 1o2A.
Principal and Interest payable In United
States gold coin Of the present standard
OF weight and fineness.
Coupon bonds, with privilege Of registsa>
ton as to principal.
Coupons payable semi-annuaiIy on April lst
and October LIST.
TRUSTEES.
GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY of New-YorA
and JULIUS :. WALSH. of ~. Louis, Mo.
SINKING Fund OF S75.O0O PER ASNCM BO1
Ten YEARS FROM JANUARY LIST. 1898. AND
OF S25,0OO PER ANNtM THEREAFTER UNTIL
THE MATURITY OF THE BONDS on JULIE
LIST, 1907. SINKING FUND WILL AMOUNT TO,
IF INVESTED on I-2 PER CENT. BASIS
SO2I, 900, AND IN 1922. on THE SAME BASIS
or RETURN. TO S:.Is0.OOO.
Sinking Fund 70 be invested by the Trust Company
in these Bonds by purchase at not above 1O5 and
interest with the Gas Companys approval In thess
bonds higher price. invested, then in other
securities by the Trust Company and approved
by the Gas Company
Auth5rze1 .......... 50 900 90
Reserve in hands Of Guaranty Trust Company.
. be issued Jess han par for future
extensions betterments real estate &C
quired The extent 4 80 per cent. OF the
actual cash cost thereof Recommendation. i23oooe
This Company is the only Gas Company
supplying in Kansas City. Missouri, ana
the only Company authorized TO do So Kansas
city. Missouri. has population q about 1900 and rs.
next - ST LOUIS the largest cry in the State n
Missouri: hsse Bonds FIRST LbEN on all tho
property Of the Company. both real anu personal
The rate charge for gas Is one DOLLAR per tnou-
sand cubic feet which price regulated b. ordinance
and continues during the term q the franchise being
in the nature Of contract Company paying the city
a percentage u It's gr receipts.
The Kansas city. Missouri. Gas Company
reports for the year ending April 30. 1s0s'
Net earnings . follows. .......... s3o2.6oo u
Annual interest charges .,.......... ls1,oWO V
surn,u. .sIIb1s5 81
THE UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT CONF
PANY PfILADELpHIa. pa. owns majority ot
The s,ock = the KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. GAS
COMPANY Copies u a letter 4 Mr Thomas Dolan,
President OF the United Improvement Company CIV
ing further Information concerning the property VIII %
furnished by the undersgnd upon application.
Legal matters have passed upon by Messa Davies
stone q Auerbach New York. Mr. Randall Morgan Cen
eral Counsel Of United Gas improvement company
Philadelphia. Pa. and Messrs. Gage LAID & SNAIL hAo-
city. No
Copies Of the Mortgage ANA suppIenlehuAi a'F's"ss
may had a Office
These Bonds have already been listed on the New ior1i
Stock Exchange. application Will be made u O.
sired 70 have them listed the Exchanges OF Fhea
phla baltimore and Pttsburg
OF THIS ISSUE OF BONDs SI.o20.OOO HAvs.
ING BEEN SOLD AND WITHDRAWN, WE
NOM OFFER s2,225OOO BONDS FOR SUB,
sCKIPTION At IOl AND ACCRUE Ed INrcNESE
TO DATE OF DELIVERY. PAYABLE on
JULY q, 1895, WHEN Thu
BONDS WILL BE READY.
The subscriptions Will be open at 10
o'clock. on Thursday. June 3d. isee' ana VIII
cIo.s at 2 O'Clock on Friday, July 1, 1S9es
or earlier.
Auo,ments will be made possible, and ns
right is reserved reject any Applications anu " ~S'
smaller amounts than those applied FOR
J. & w. Seligman S Co.,
Mills Building, n. Y. CITY,
The First National Bank,
Philadelphia, Pa.
June -. 1898.