The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-05-09
WILL BE BUILT.
Mankato Will Have a Street
Car Line.
Eastern Capitalists Agree to Finance
and Construct it, Without
More Talk.

The Mankato and ST. Peter electric
railway, the trolley line in this city,
and the electric lighting plant will
be constructed. The capital is forth
coming, with which to finance and
construct the line, and all that is
necessary to close the deal now is for
the subscribers to stock of the COM
pany in this city to deposit $50, 900
of the subscriptions in the local banks
as an evidence of good faith on their
part, but which money is not to be
paid over to the company until the
plant has been completed in a salts
factory manner.
Mankato is at the threshold Of the
most prosperous time which it has
ever seen. 1t is about to throw off
the garb of country town and be-
come a city in fact as we'll as in name.
The meeting of stockholders Of the
Mankato and st. Peter Railway and
Lighting Co, held at the city hall
Wednesday, was largely attended.
1t was presided over by Pesident Hix-
on. Besides the stockholders, there
were present J. H. Collins, of Chicago,
Samuel A. williams, of New Haven,
Conn, and E. J. Wehrly, of Toledo,
Ohio, representing the capital to be
invested in the enterprise, and F. B.
Perkins, of Toledo, Ohio, the'expert
engineer, who accompanied the CAPT
talists
Mr.. Dixon stated that the eastern
men had looked over the city and
were ready to make proposition.
The Arbuckle, Ryan Co, of Toledo,
which Mr.. Wehrly represented. and
which was to furnish the plant, had
prepared preliminary specifcaties and
a proposition to the Mankato and ST.
Peter Railway and Lighting Co. and
Weed 81 Williams, bankers of New
Haven, Conn, who are to furnish the
money, and who are represented by
Samuel A. Williams. The proposition
and preliminary SPECIFICATIONS were as
follows:
Mankato, Mimi, May 7th, 1909.
The Mankato and st. Peter Railway
and Lighting Co., and Messrs. Weed
& Williams, New Haven, Conn.
We herewith submit you proposition
for a complete steam and electrical
plant for your proposed electric rail
road and lighting plant in the city OF
Mankato, MINI. The steam plant to
consist of three engine units. three
boiler units with necessary pumps,
condensers and auxiliaries, smoke
stack. gravity oiling return system,
in fact complete electrical steam
plant Of the latest improved and most
economical type. The engine capacity
to be 900 horse power with ample
boiler capacity for same. Boilers to
be water tube type, high pressure, the
,condensers to be surface type with
necessary air circulating pump. all to
be, erected, including foundation, and
turned over in complete running or
der The engines as we'll as the boil
ers, in fact, the complete installation
guaranteed in economy, regulation
and efficiency to be equal to any COM
pound condensing plant, all of the live
steam lines to be made to carry the
safe working pressure of 100 pounds
to the square inch The engines to be
of the tandem compound condensing
type.
Electrical equipment-The,e electrical
equipment to consist of two units,
each of not less than 800 K W. fol
railway purposes, one 900 K. W. fol
lighting services, all to be of the re-
volving field type alternating current
generators and to be direct connected
with the above described engines.
There will be rotary converters of no