Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-12
FRANCHISE GRANTED.
City Fathers Pass the Measure
Almost Unanimously.

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rig L to erect and maintain =
sy>ts IN of electric power and
lights in the city of Corvallis,
Benton county, Oregon, and
authorizing the erection and con-
strncrion of all eq"ipm~ Mt tor the
ops ration and maintenance there
of.
THE CITY OF CORVALLIS DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. That authority be
and 'he same is hereby give1,
granted and vested by the Com
mon Council of the City of Cor
wallis, in Benton county, Oregon,
in A Welch, his heirs, executors,
- administrators and assigns the
right, privilege and franchise to
erect, lay, equip, maintain, con-
struct and operate in the city OF
Corvallis, in Benton county,
Oregon, including all streets,
alleys, avenues, boulevards and
thoroughfares thereof, posts,
poles. towers, wires and other
conductors for the transmission
of electricity for electric power,
electric lights and all other pur-
poses for which electricity may
be or is used, and to sell or
otherwise dispose of electric
power, electric lights and cleo
tricity to all persons or corpor
ations whatsoever within the
limits of said City of Corvallis.
Section 2. For the purposes
aforesaid and tor the practical en-
joyment of the said rights and
franchise the said A. Welch, his
heirs, executors, administrators,
and assigns are hereby authorized
to string such wires or other con-
ductors upon poles or other fix
lures above ground, or lay the
same under ground in pipes OF
conduits, or otherwise protected,
and to use such other apparatus
as may be necessary or proper to
maintain and operate the same. 1
Section 3. Such posts, poles,
towers, or other supports shall be
placedat such points in the streets.
alleys, avenues, boulevards and
thoroughfares of said city, and
the wires or other conductors
thereon strung to such a height
as least to interfere with the trav-
ell and use thereof, and the
placing of snch posts, poles,
towers, or other supports and the
laying of such pipes and con-
duits shall be subject to the rea-
sonable control of the Common
Council of said City as the public
interests may require. No poles
or other supports above the
ground shall hereafter be placed
ON Second street in said City be-
tween Adams street and Van
Buren street, and from and after
the 2S day of November 1913 all
wires maintained under the
authority of this franchise as we'll
as the posts, poles, towers or
other supports thereof shall be re-
moved from such portion of Sec
ond Street.
The City reserves the right to
require that all posts or other
supports above the ground main
tanned under the authority OF
this franchise to be painted from
time to time as may be necessary
to keep the same in reasonably
slightly condition.
Section 4. 1t shall be lawful
for the said A. WEIGH, his heirs,
executors, administrators or as
signs, to make all needful or
convenient excavations in any of
the streets, alleys, avenues, boul-
evards and thoroughfares of said
City of Corvallis for the purpose
of erecting and maintaining the
posts, poles, towers, or other sup
ports for the said wires or for the
purpose of laying, maintaining
and operating wires and other
conductors under ground tor the
purposes aforesaid or to repair and
improve such electric power or
light system and to extend the
same as the growth of said City
or the needs of the inhabitants
thereof may require, provided
that when the said A. Welch,
his heirs, executors, administra-