El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24
THE PRICE OF
ELECTRICITY
Denver's City Electrician Pre-
sents a Report.
THE FIGURES OBTAINED
BY Him As Compared With Those
Now Charged BY the Present
Monopoly In Denver Show the
ExtOrtion Beinq prdCtiCed.

At the meeting of the council com
mittees on light with the mayor and
the city electrician, in the Office of the
mayor of Denver, the report of the city
electrician on the maximum charges
for electricity for power and light that
should be charged in Denver was su b.
mitted. The following are extracts
from the letter of the city electrician:
81 have not based my calculations
on the present prices charged in this
city, but followed rather the results as
obtained by the latest and more modern
designed plants now in operation inthis
country, making due allowances for
lowing are the maximum rates that
should be charged for municipal and
comm ercisl electric lighting:
Street arcs. to burn all night, per
year.. $40 w
Commercial arcs, to burn until
10 p. No., per month. .-...... 600
Commercial arcs, to burn until
IL p. m, per month. 7.5O
Commercial arce, to burn all
night, per month .......... O.CO
"Incandescent sixteen candle power
lamps, z mills per lamp per hour,
lamps to be of 81 watts candle power
efficiency, aud renewal Of lamps made
by the company.
Electric energy for power purposes
consumption. These should be the
maximum prices. Any rate of discount
or sliding scale calculated to induce q
more liberal use of current should be
left entirely with the company TO fix rs
its business dictates.
81 believe all current should be sold
by meter. That a charge of not over
IS cents should be made for furnishing
and reading of meters, and this only to
take effect when the amount of energy
used should fell below IS cents.
1.-THE arclight circuits should be con-
nected with recording wattmeters that
will record accurately the amount of
energy given to circuits. These me-
tiers should be placed under care of
the city electric light Inspector l ap-
piled to the manager of the Consolidat-
ed Gas and Electric Light company for
a list of the rates they are now
charging in this city. He refused alb
solutely to give this inform alton, but l
had previously obtained the following
data from two of their employees, which
l believe is accurate:
Street arcs, to burn all night, per
year. ---..---.-. -SlOO
Com mercisl arcs, to burn until 10
p. M, per month. 10 /
Commercial arcs, to burn until II
p. M, per month. ............ IL |
Commercial arcs, to burn all night,
DER month. .......... .....-. II
son the commercial arcs q discount
is allowed of 10 per cent if bills are
paid on or before tha 10th of each |
month.
''For incandescent lighting of down
town districts $40 of q cent for six
teen-candle power lamp hour; residence |
lighting, ! cent per sixteen-candle |
power lamp hour, with discount in |
each case OF 10 per cent If bills are |
paid on or before the 10Th of each |
For incandescent lighting in High
lands. $40 of a cent per sixteen-candle |
power lamp. with no discount. They |
charge for meter rent 81. 80 per month.
sPRESENT CHARGES FOR POWER
Fer power they have sliding scale,
as follows:
For a meter that reads: