The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
no PAY $500 PER MONTH
POWER CO. TO PUMP.
Monthly Saving Of About $3.50 20 City
Over Present System OF LIT
ing Water.

At the regular adjourned session OF
the city council at the water works
building Tuesday night, the PROPOSE
ton OF William Frazier, manager OF
the GOOdland Light and Power COM
panys to pump water for the city was
accepted The proposition win be en-
bodied in 8 contract at an early date,
and the large expense Of maintaining
standpipe under the present arrange
ments viii be materially reduced. Here
IS the oner which met with favor at
the Tuesday night meeting:
We, the Goodland Light and Pow
er company, viii pump the water used
by the city on a fiat rate OF S40O per
month until the next census, which
shall be taken in March or April,
when 20 cents additional shall be paid
TO US for each addition to the popula-
ton, the city to equip their wells with
motors and TO sign q contract for one
year, with the privilege OF two or i've
years, providing both parties to this
contract are willing. city to strictly
enforce ordinances for the protection
Of water. Failure on the part Of the
city to enforce ordinances after writ
ten notice from power company, will
be just cause for annuling contract
''GOodland Light and Power Co.
By W. h FRAZIER, Manager"
The other offers from the Light and
Power company were placed before
the council, one Offering TO sink q well
at the power plant and to operate IL
twenty-fOur hours each day IL re-
for two wells at the city's pumping
station on a twelve hours service, for
10 y cents per thousand gallons. The
other simply furnish current at the
water works plant for operating two
motors twelve hours per day for ~
cents per kilowat hour.
The fat rate OF $500 per month
means that the expense Of pumping
water to supply GOodland will be re-
dUced between $500 and $500 per
month. Calling the reduction $3.50 on
an average, the saving would be
$4,000 per year. Maintenance and
water supply at the city water works
has been a serious problem ever since
the gasoline power was put in. Dur
ing the summer months the demand for
water for lawn and other purposes
has been enormous, so that the two
wells driven by gasoline engines have
been kept going night and day, and
frequently another outside well using
steam power, has had TO be brought
into requisitiOn. The gasoline bill has
run up some months to as high as
$3.50, and to that has to be added
day and night bumpers salaries which
amounts to $3.50 per month. The ez-
pense therefore has ranged right
around 500 per month. The contrast
with the power company viii Be enc
tered into for the term Of one year,
III TIC DLlhAAESE u EGuEhAslE II &c
cOrding to the proposition. In all pro-
liability the power cOmpanW will sink
a well at their plant and help lift wa
ter at that point in the system, and
the two motors will do service at the
water works. The city has to pur-
chase them, and it is estimated the
two will cost $500.
Not long ago the council raised the
water rate 10 per cent on all kinds
Of consumption, and the increase, &
isflgured, viii yield annually 81. 900 more
20 the old income from water service.
The council have been doing all in
their power to put GoodIand on a sub
stantial water basis, but the heavy de-
mand and the extension Of the mains
in different parts of the city has
brought about a rather heavy floating
Indebtedness, something like $1,000
now, but with the increased rate, and
the reduction on expense Of pumping
will swing back the tide in the fnan-
cial affairs in favor Of the city.
The council also passed a new fire
limit ordinance, repeating the old ones
and extending the fire limit territory
from Ninth to Thirteenth street, and
CONTINUED on page four.)