Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-09-12
LIGHTING PLANT IS NOW AS
 SURED.
(From Wednesday s Daily)


 the city council held yesterday after. noon in the city hall new depart nent of the city government was ere. sted by resolution 10 be known as the musicipal electric lighting department and the city attorney instructed to draw an ordinancee establishing such with the office of general manager. This action followed the adoption of tho following resolution:
 Whereas, Under and by virtue of the limitations and privileges of its charter the city of Prescott now owns snd operates a municipal water sys. tenn; and,
 Whereas, The said water system has now installed sufficient generating equipment ,o supply commercial and municipal electric lighting without in. terfering with the pumping of water; and,
 Whereas, The municipal water sys. tenn, owing to the adverse natural com ditiops of supply. is forced 'o meet a deficiency each year; and,
 Whereas, It is not believed to be practical to make the water rates suf. scient to meet this deficiency; and,
 Whereas, A number of taxpayers have petitioned this city council to in. stall municipal electric lighting de. psrtment in order to utilize the by. products of the water system and have advanced funds sufficient to construct the necessary distributing system; and,
 Whereas. IL has been demonstrated by three independent reports from electrical engineers employed by the city to the entire satisfaction of thi, council that such a department would be profitable to the city of Prescott, it's taxpayers and light consumers, if operated in connection with Prescott municipal water system.
 Be lt Resolved, That .h, city of Prescott create and estab,.h d mubi. cipsl electric lighting plsn. and that . committee he appointed by the mayor consisting of three members of the city council, which shall hc known ss the lighting committee and said lighting committee sh.,'i have full charge of the municipal electric lign' isg department of the city of Pres eott under the general direction of th' mayor and common council.
 IL was apparent as soon as the re ports of Engineers Carter and Belden came before the council for discussion that all members of the council presen, had familiarixed themselves with every detail covered In tho reports and had also given the subject of in stalling an electric lighting plant in connection with the water works much consideration.
 In discussing the question Mayor Goidwater took n very conservative view of the engineers reports which confirmed the statements submitted by City Engineer Glass on the economy of installing such . plant some time ago. According to the reports the cost of producing the light per kilowat hour is less than ! cents. while the price charged by th. electric light company is l5 cents.
 "Incrensing the cost of production, said inc mayor, "by 70 per cent and reducing the present price charged by the company co per cent the city will still be able to furnish light at a profit of 100 per cent"
 F. l.. Wright. general manager of the Prescott Electric company. was pres ent, but did not offer any suggestion that might throw further light on the subject.
 Judge Hawkins wss present and pre- sented petitions of property owners on Mount Vernon street to have the street graded and eurbcd from the north line of Aubrey strecet to the railroad tracks of the x. F. F. and F.. and the city attorney was instructed to take the necessary legal steps to have Mount Vernon street graded on the blocks represented in the petitions.
 !. II. Robinson presented an obj'c ton ,o one of the petitions on the ground that Attorney T. C. Job had signed the petition when in reality the property Mir. Job represented wn' ewnd by his mother who. he elsimed escaped the payment of taxes on it through the law granting tax ex- smptiou to widows. MT, Job then signed his mothers name on the pe,i ton after removing his own.
 Mr. Robinson made further ob lection 10 the petitions for the reason