The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-17

Adairsvile. KY. viii build an cleo
tric-light plant
Carlisle. KY, is-considering the cor
Htruction of w~aterworka.
Franklin, Tenn. is thinking OF
spending s25. 900 for w~aterworks.
Waynesville. NJ. c., will have a ciy
waterworks and electric-light plant
An ordinance has been introduced IN
the Kansas City council for the ex-
penditure OF S125,OO0 I'm the building
or purchase OF an electric light plant
In buying the water plant from a
private company the nrst thing ITALIA
dega, Ala. will do is to spend $4,000
in overhauling 81 and installing an
electric-light plant This through the
Incentive Of public ownership DO you
see Il. Mr.. Privateincentive?
France has municipal savings banks
in ass towns and cities. They have
100000 depositoTs and over $3.50. 000.-
900 on deposit. Besides offering the
~deDositors an absolutely safe bank they
effect a great saving to the cities,
which are thus better able to borrow
money for municipal improvements.
A London cablegram to the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch says: "A movement has
been started by the London munici-
palities to follow the example Of Glas-
gov and Nottingham to insure them
selves municipality Fifty-fve out Of
seventy-six localt ithorities in Lon
don pay $58, 600 annually to FIRE in
surance premiums on municipal prop
erty, while the total losses by FIRE IN
i've years have only been $4,000. The
scheme is to pay the amount Of the
last I'VE years premiums into a COM
mon fund, theT eater an indnitesimal
annual contribution being sufficient to
provids against loss.
The net income Of the Toledo, Ohio.
waterworks department during the last
fiscal year, recently closed, was ST.
6S0.S5 over any previous year. The
net total profit Of operation was S92.-
243.71, not counting S,145.7t turned
over to the sinking fund trustees for
interest. All this Is public money still
in the public hands, not in the private
pockets Of some capitalists. In ad-
dition-which you ran wager would
have mostly been in subtraction under
private ownership-over 154 miles Of
new pipe were laid and t~hirty-six new
hydrants were put in to each four
miles Of pipe laid~the previous year
as a Toledo pap9 says, every de-
partment Of expense shows that the
waterworks people have been very
busy in making necessary improve
ments for the city"
The bureau maintained by the hold
ers of public franchises for the pur-
pose of dis~couraging municipal owner
ship in this county has been talking
about the Anticipated" street railway
system owned by Nottingham, Eng
land. The bureau has been extremely
careful not to tell the whole truth. The
system is fearfully %antiquated because
it was lately owned by a private COM
pany. AS soon as the municipality as
sumed control a large number Of new
employees were given work and new
cars and horses were purchased. These
Improvements were pending a change
to a modern system Of electricity
which will give Nottingham heavenly
service compared the old private re-
gime. To quote tie words OF the U. s.
consul at NottlpaRm June Consular
Reports, page $50 10 expense will
eventually be spared in creating a
modern street railway system, with q
central depot and adequate suburban
service"
Nicaragua must be the richest coun-
try on earth. Dispatches tell how the
people down there have put a tariff on
American goods that will make them
all very wealthy. The duty on whisky
is SIS a gallon; on a SIC enameled
bedstead it is $3.50; on a 81 ice box II
is S4s; on butter. 40 cents. AS the
foreigners pay the tariff in this coun-
try, so the foreigners must pay the
Nicaraguan tarin, and such a tariff
will soon make All the people down
there rich If they are wise enough &c
import enough goOdsl That is what
the Republicans taught me when l was
one of that ~perty-that tariff was PAID
by the foreigners and protected the
American laborers. It certainly mus
work the same way in Nicaragua. o.
else the Republicans lied to me.