Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-09-05
From Sundays Dsily.)

D W. Beldon and C. w. Carter upon ,te expense of the necessary equip. uent for a municipal plant, and the ,e, cost of the current were submitted yesterday at q special session of the City Council.
 They confirm in a convincing man. per the estimate heretofore made by Superintendent Glass, there being only A slight variation in the figures.
 Engineer Belden estimates that the net cost per kilowatt hour Is 2.3ss cents; Engineer Carter figures it at e.7 cents. and includes taxes, which. of course. should not enter into the cal. cula,ions for n municipal plant, while Superintendent Glnss's estimate is 2 cents. As the electric light company charges n cents per kilowatt for light and l0 cents for power. it is evident ina, there is n healthy profit in furnish. ing electric light. MT. Glass figures that the city can sell the current at ( cents . kilowatt. and clear a profit of si.oO0 month after allowing for all possible contingencies. Mir. Bclden estimates the monthly profit at sl ,os3.. 40
 After the reading of the reports of n 1.l. P. Carter ON the matter of q muni. cipal electric lighting plant. at n spe. cinl meeting of the city council. yes. terday afternoon Rt 2 o'clock. F. l.. Wright. president and general manager of the Prescott Electric company. in. euired of the mayor if the city authori. ties intended to secure any more expert reports. suggesting at thc same time that inc reports submitted by engin. eers Belden anl Carter might in some way bc biased by undue inAhuencc. or tha, the engineers might not bc com. pe,en, to give reliable figures.
 "Mr Belden." Mir. Wright said. "is agent for the Westinghouse Manufac. turing company. and wants to sell more machinery" City Engineer Glass suggested that MT. Beidon had charge of the plant of the Phoenix Light and Power company. ana was considered a good engineer. to which Mir. Wright retortcd. "why isn't he working for them nowi Under his manaI)rmcn' the Phoenix Electric Light nud Pow er company built n transmission line which they had to abandon on account of being unable to operate it. Figures look good on paper. For six year' city engineer Glass worked for me and produced just such figures. which were never known .to tally with the office reports. Figures are one thing and practical work another. At the sug ges'ion of MT. Glass our company pur chased an engine which Le highly re commended, and which has failed i' do the work he represented. that il would do. Our old engines do better work, and VIC are now compelled t' use them. He could not run the on' be recommended 90 highly. and as [ consequence it almost pounded itself t' pierrs."
 When informed that Mir. Carter wa 'he chief electrical engineer of th' Arizona smelting company. at Hum holdt. Mir. Wright said, "I do not thinl Thai NIT. Carter has any axe to grind i' submitting his report. The onl, question in my mind is whether he il competent to give reliable figures oI such an undertaking. I believe tha The city should have reports of som' engineers that are not connected in an, way with manufacturing or electric light concerns"
 Hut, ," suggested the mayor, "it Il hard to find first class engineer wh' IS not in the employment of some sucl 'oncern," to which MT. Wright replied There are plenty of first class con sniting engineers all over the country Who are competent to pass upon m en 'erprise of this kind, and who are in oependent of everybody, and I thin' That the city should secure the service or some of them before any more of th' 'aspayers' money would be expcnde' 'n this proposition." s,
 With the consent of the council th mayor ordered the reports of engineer Glass, Belden and Carter printed Il 'nll' when the nsstipg was adiourn'' until Tuesday afternoon next at o'clock.