Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-10
SPECIAL PETITION
COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION COM
MITTEE AND lNTERuR5AN
PROMOTERS AGREE
Free Hold Property Owners VIII Be
Asked to Give Their Consent to a
Special Election in Aid of New Rail-
raid.

The committee of the Ottumwa
Commercial association and promoters
of the Ottumwa & Southeastern Iowa
Interurban Railway Co. have agreed
upon form of petition, which will be
presented to the free hold property
owners for their consent to hold spe-
cial election to decide the construction
of the interurban. The following is
the petition:
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City ofN Ottumwa,
Iowa:
I'VE, the undersigned, resident free
hold taxpayers of the city of Ottumwa,
Wapello county, Iowa, do hereby petit
ton your honorable body, and ask that
you submit to the electors of the city
of Ottumwa, Iowa, the question of vot-
ing in aid of the 'Ottnnwa & South
eastern Iowa Interurban Railway Co..
"a corporation organized under the
laws of the state of Iowa) tax of 4
per cent on the dollar. upon the as
sessed value of all taxable property
within the corporate limits of said city
of Ottumwa.
"Said tax to be levied and collected
as follows: One-half, the first year
that it can lawfully be levied and col
lected, after having been adopted at
the special election to be called for
that purpose and the other one-half,
the year following Said tax to be paid
to said 'Ottumwa & Southeastern Iowa
Railway company at the following
named times, and upon the following
conditions:
"One-helf of said 4 per cent tax is
to be paid when the said 'Ottumwa &
Southeastern Iowa Interurban Railway
company shall have fully completed
its main line of standard guage street
and interurban railway, with not less
than seventy pound rails, and cars
running thereon, from such starting
point in Ottumwa, as 1t may select for
its Ottumwa terminal to such point in
side of the tract of land owned by the
coal company in the northwest quar-
ter of section 4, township IA, range ID,
in Bluff Creek.townsh1p, Monroe coun-
ty, known as Buxton or to a point
within three-quarters of mile of said
tract Of land. The other one-half of
said 4 per cent tax within one year aft
er the completion of said interurban
railway, to the aforesaid point. Actual
work on the construction of said road
to be begun within eight months from
the adoption of said tax.
"It shall construct track or switch
at grade to the right-of-way of the Iowa
Central railway at or near such place
as it may cross the same
Said interurban railway may be ex.
tended to such other points as it's Off
GERS and board Of directors may deem
expedient.
"Said proposition to be submitted to
the electors of the city of Ottumwa for
adoption or rejection, ut a special cleo
ton to be called by your honorable
body for that purpose, at such time.
and in such manner as may be fixed
by the city council and as provided by
law
eff said interurban railway shall not
be completed between the aforesaid
terminal points and cars running
thereon, within two years from the
time said election is held and said tax
voted and adopted then the said inter-
urban railway company shall not be
entitled to the same or any part there
Of"