Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-19
BRIDGE FINANCES.

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The typo in setting up the matter on
the proposed new bridge made slight
error, owing no doubt to the hlerogly-
phics submitted to him in the place of
legible writing
1t will do no hurt, however, to re-
state the financial part of it as the
proposition can not be too much insist
ed upon, and that is as follows:
The Council at the last meeting
passed a resolution defining their po-
sition on tAe proposition about to be
submitted to a vote, which authorizes
the issue of $4,000 for the purpose of
building a new br.Gge across the Mus
lrngum river in place of the present
structure, which is claimed to be un-
safe. Inc council did ,Le right thing
to make known definitely their policy
which is to sell only enough bonds to
build a good and sufficient bridge. II
it is found that the right kind of a
bridge can be bull for $50,000then few
er bonds will be sold.-For instance, sup
pose that after consulting with num-
Der of bridge engineers and bridge
companies, 1t shall be found that $780,
900 will be sufficient. The City Clerks
annual report, just out, shows that
there is $1,000 now on hand in the
bridge fund Now that would leave but
$45, 900 to raise by the sale of bonds,
and by making temporary loan of
! $4,000 to be met by the next bridge levy
which now brings in $4,000 year, the
city would not need to sell but 100000
of bridge bonds. If this could be done
no trouble would be found in handling
the loan without additional taxation.
! If LIS can be done let us have the
/ bridge and give the West Side the ben
eft, do away wlth a doubtful structure
and add a splendid Improvement to our
, city.
WATER POWER AND CITY LIGHT
ING.
In yesterdays paper We called atten-
tion to Marfetta's splendid water priv
the proposed new city light plant. 1t
mi ght interest some of our readers to
know more about this matter, and we
are reasonably certain that all that is
necessary to demonstrate the feasibil
fty of the plan is to go into the figures.
Water power was used long before
stearl was thought of and so far as the
ways and means and figures are con-
cerncd, they are easily obtainable. For
instance al that would be necessary
to get flood of light upon the pract
cal methods of introducing WATERPROOF
er as a motor would be to drop a card
to the Dayton Globe Iron Works Co.,
Dayton, o.. which firm have corps of
hydraulis engineers at their command.
They no doubt would send a man up
here in short order if they supposed
we wcro thinking of installing a wat
empower plant. There are other firms
that would do the same if requested,
no doubt.
In 1895 the following cities were us
ing water power for operating electric
light plants: Buchanan, Mich; Brain
erd, Mimi; Richmond, Ind; Billings,
..ontana; eau Claire, Wis; Ithaca, N.
Y; Seymour, Conn. Pocatello, Idaho;
Livingston, Montana; BiXon, Ills;
DePere, Wis; Joliet, Ills; Winsted,
Conn; Phoenix, Wis; Augusta, Ga;
Hoosick Falls, N. Y; Watertown, N.
Y; Logansport, Ind; Marquette, Mich.
So that when we call attention to the
feasibility of inauguratfng this cheap
power for Marietta, We know perfect
ly wha- we are talking about and are
not urging any visionary schemes, on
ly plain common sense, and no doubt
since 1895 the list of cities using this
power has greatly increased.