Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-11-10
COMMITTEE
FAV0RS C0LBURN
FRANCHISE
Report Prepared for Special
Meeting Of Council Tbs
Afternoon
New Document Provides for Dollar and
Hall Rate and Places Company
Under Bond


committee on franchises, of tho city
council Of Las Vegas, uf which Wm.
H. Bunker is chairman. The report
was prepared for submission to the
city council for action at the special
meeting held this afternoon, at 8
o'clock:
Las Vegas, N. NJ. Nov. 10, 1905.
To the Honorable Mayor and Mem.
bers Of City Council. City Of Las
Vegas, New Mexico.
Gentlemen
The two ordinances submitted to
the city council with reference to the
granting Of franchise for the man.
ufacture Of gas in said city having
been referred to committee on
ordinances, together with the mayor
and city attorney, we desire to re-
port, that same was taken up by said
committee on Thursday, November
8, 1905. We went into the various
rights requested under each OF said
ordinances, the rights applied for to
furnish gas to the citizens of.Las We
gas. and also considered the advant-
ages to be derived to the said city
relative to the granting Of the respec-
tive franchises and the committee was
unanimous that the franchise should
he granted Ia w. H. Goiburn. subject
to such corrections as the committee
has made in said franchise.
The committee did not deem it pos
sible for any person to erect gas
plant in said city and furnish gas at
less than one dollar and fifty cents
per thousand cubic feet during the
first five years Of the term Of the
franchise asked. The committee there
fore recommends and so inserted IN
the ordinance, that the price OF gas
for both fuel and lighting should De
one dollar and fifty cents per 1000
cubic feet during the first five years
Of the existence OF said franchise, and
At the expiration OF five vears the rate
I should be revised by committee COM
posed of five persons. two selected
by the city council two by w. II. Col
burn or his assigns. said four 70
choose fifth person and said rive 10
compose said committee, and IN no
event the price Of gas to be more
than one dollar and fifty cents per
1000 cubic feet.
The committee also decided that
there should be a revision OF the gas
rates at the expiration Of each and
every five years during the terms OF
This franchise and so embodied the
same in the franchise as asked Tor
The committee was divided as 10
the length of time the franchise
should be granted. The city attorney
and Alderman Helfricn being IN iaVor
Of twenty-five years and the mayor
and Alderman Bunker being IN lavor
of forty years with the right 10 the
c;tv of Las Vegas to purchase said gas
n,ant at the inventoried price to oe
f,xed bv five men. two OF whom snal'
no selected by said city council tWo
nv said w. n. Colburn and one per
sor to no selected by said four per
SONS named, granting the right 10 'he
CITY to purchase said plant AT the eA
n,ration OF twenty-five years or any
f,vo wears thereafter during the exis
,.rce of the franchise, and that tnf
franchise run for forty years. lhe
matter of the length OF the franch'se
being in dispute the committee aeree'
,o refer the matter to the city co"hc'
for its action and consideration hence
the franchise is referred back 70 ,a'
oourc,, for the council to determine
tho length the same shall run
The said committee went into .h'
,.,,o,s fully. connected with 'h'
rran,,ne of the respective franchises
Cleo took into consideration the pros
pective rights and BENEFITS 10 accfo'
and he received by the city OF i'a'
Vegas by the propositions supm'''e'
resnactively by w. II. Colburn am
Mr. uoke and took the same INTO co''
s;sera,ion in deciding upon "h'
sbou,d have the said franchise an'
unor,mouslv agreed that all things DC
inc aoua, the same should be grante'
TO w. II. Colburn.
The committee also decided .ner'
sbould he a cash deposit of one thous
and dollars. together with bond Q
s,ve thousand dollars, conditioned 10