The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-20
CHEAPER LIGHT
FOR SALT LAKE
Merchants Company Now
Asks for Franchise,
READY TO ERECT
A $4,000 PLANT
Promises Reduction in the Cost
OF Light.

Inc Merchants Lighting company of
salt Lake City viii apply to the conn
Gil tonight for franchise and furn-
ISL evidence that it is in earnest. If
the franchise is granted. the promoters
say, the company viii organize under
the laws OF Utah with a capftal stock
Of $4,000, a plant VIII be erected and
the work Of putting in a new electric
1ght system in the business district of
the city VIII begin at once.
Attorney H. c. Edwards. the local
representative of the capitalists who
are back Of this enterprise and who has
done all the preliminary work for the
company, stated yesterday that if the
franchise were granted the companv
would be furnishing the people of SaIt
Lake light before cold weather comes
ne would not say who the men are
VINO are back OF the movement. f1Ir-
Iner than to say that they are .ss+a-,,
capitalists, mostly from Ohio. with
abundant means and long experience
IL lgnung cities. The power plant
MI towards says will be erected on
the Rio Grande Western tracks to
enable the company to get cheap coal
anu the power VIII be produced bv
steam. de said also that the business
men or salt Lake had given -satiSfa.c
tory evidence in the way of prov-isio1s1
contracts that they desire another cleo
lrlc hght company and that they win
support one Loyalty. It is known thar
Mr.. Edwards has been soliciting con
tracts among the merchants for some
time past and the intimation is that
he has been quite successful.
Cheaper Light Promised.
The new company agrees to furnish
llSht much cheaper than it is now be-
ING furnished by the Utah Light &
rover company 1t agrees to supply
hight at the rate of not more than II {
cents per k1lowaUt as compared with 1
10 cents, the present price and to /.
furnish the city with arc lights al the 4
rate OF s. per month. compared with I
So the present price. Mr.. Edwards I
nguTes that this viii mean an annual 4
saving 10 the city of $1,000 The new
also agrees in the franchise
asked for TO bury all wires in the busi-
ness district and 10 put up a bond for
$4,000 TO indemnify the city against
all damages while the system is baing
put in, and that is to be forfeited tn (
he city in case the company fails in
any respect 10 carry out its agree
nent
Petition for Franchise.
The draft of the franchise will be
presented TO the city council at the
Meeting this evening No one knows
What its fate will be- but Mr. Ed
Yards states that his people are pre-
,aring TO make a fight for a franchise
nd viii make any reasonable conces-
ions.
The franchise is TO be accepted or re-
scted within sixty days, and if ac
epted the work of construction and
shall begin within three
lonths, and that the plant shall be
ompleted and equipped 10 a capacity
{ TO- 900 inCandescent lights within if
zen months from the acceptance of
he agreement.
A section Of the franchise provides
lat the grantee shall not transfer the
-anchise to any other person. per-
ms. corporation or company nor /
lall there be any consolidation of any
laracter during the life of the fran 7
liSe which is 10 run for fifty years. Z {