Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-15
SCHEDULE OF WATER RATES
Hydraulic Expert and Council COMMITTEES
Will Begin formulating il To-day.
WILL Be PART OF NEW FRANCHISE
Charges TO he Based Upon Value
of s6OO,OOO, which is ComprO-
mise Between Company and
City EstImatesI

man Wallace is chairman in formulating
schedule of water rates to be incorpo-
rated In the new franchise for the water
works company, II is expected that some
agreement will be finally reached in the
near future between the company and the
city council. In accordance with the in
structions Of the city council to the special
committee the schedule OF rates is to be
based upon a valuation of 10000, this val
uation being a compromise between the
value placed on the plant by Mr.. Kiersted
and that placed by Mr.. Alvord, the expert
engineer employed by the water works
company.
MIR. Kiersted expects that Il will take
about a weeks work to prepare the sched-
ule Of rates. as a number Of matters. in
GLIDING the proposed extensions. reinforce
ments and other improvements will have to
be taken into consideration.
Question of Minimum Rate.
Mr.. Kiersted holds that the water works
company Is entitled to charge a mini
mum for water service. In his report he
had this to say relative to this question:
Neither a municipality nor private cor
poration can afford to sell water to private
| consumers without having some minimum
price per unit of volume of water as a
measure of the expense of producing water
service in order that the consumers who
use water literally enough to equal or
exceed the cost of production and main
tenance shall not be called upon to make
good the deficit of those consumers who,
when unrestricted, would use and pay for
the water service in an amount less than
the cost Of production"
Chairman Wallace has heretofore opposed
any minimum rate taking the position that
consumers should only be charged for what
water they actually used.
Many Extensions Proposed.
A long list Of proposed extensions Of
water mains and service pipes has been
filed by the councilmen from First, Second
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards. Council
man Wallace has not as yet filed any
list for the Third ward and It is under
stood but few extension will be asked for
that part Of the city. With the exception
Of the service pipe In the Sixth ward, all
of the extensions asked for are six inch
mains The extensions proposed are:
FIRST WARD.
Harrison street, from Fuller avenue to
Benton street, from Hyde avenue to Pos
ton avenue.
Harmony street, from Frank street to
Logan, street. from Mary street to Oak
street
East Washington avenue. from Frank
East Pierce street, from North avenue to
Canning street tal
Nicholas street, from Pierce street to Per-
Lincoln avenue, from end OF Main to
Park lane.
Yoorhis street, from Lincoln avenue to
Grace street from Pierce street to
Bloomcr street.
Boomer street, from Damon street to
Grace street.
Knepher street, from First street to Da-
Damon street, from Knepher street to Hill
street.
Madison avenue, from stahl avenue to
SECOND WARD.
North Second street. from Sherman ave-
Lafayette avenue, from Second street to
Oakland avenue
North sixth street, from Washington ave-
Avenue F, from Sixth street to Eighth
street
Eighth street. from Avenue E to Wick
Mill street. between Sixth and Seventh
streets.
Mil street. from Curtis street to Eighth
street.
Avenue B, between Eighth and Ninth
streets
Elder street from washington avenue
FOURTH AND FIFTH WARDS.
Seventh street. from Sixteenth avenue TO
Nineteenth avenue.
Eighth street. from Nineteenth avenue to
TWenty-fifth avenue.
Twenty-third avenue. from Eighth street
TO Sixth street.
Sixth street, from Twenty-third avenue
to Twenty-fourth avenue
Sixteenth avenue, from Ninth street TO
.Tenth street. from, sixteenth avenue 10
Twenty-third avenue.
Eleventh street, from Eighteenth avenue
to TWenty-fourth avenue.
Twelfth street, from Eighteenth avenue
TO TWCnty-first avenue
Eighteenth avenue, from Tenth street 70
Twelfth street
SIXTH WARD.
Thirty second street, from Broadway TO
Avenue G. from Thirty-seoond street to
/ Twenty-fourth street and east 10 Twenty
TIVE TWenty-ffth street, from Avenue to
Avenue F.
Avenue e, from Twenty-nnth street to
Avenue %, from Sixteenth street to TWEEN
Avenue q. from sixteenth street to -Four
North Fourteenth street, from Avenue G
North twelfth street. from Avenue B to
Avenue p
Two-inoh service pipe extensions asked
for in Sixth ward;
Avenue e, from Twenty-ninth to Thirty
! second street.
Avenue A. from Thirty-seeond street tC
Thirty-fourth street
Twenty-afth street. from Avenue q tc
| Avenue +.
Avenue F, from Twenty-nfth street &c
/ Twenty-hrst street
| Avenue A. from Twenty-fouTth street e
Avenue c, from Twenty-hfth street tC
| Twenty-siXth street and east from Twenty
Nth street to Twenty third street.
| Avenue ID, between Twenty-hfth anc
| TWenty-siNth streets
| Avenue B, from Nineteenth street e
| Twenty second street. and between Twenty
second street and Thirty-fourth street.
CENTRAL FLOUR, u.@ PER SACK
EVERY SACK WARRANTED. CENTRAL
GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET
PHONES a.
DEBATE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
Delta Tau and PhiiOmathiRn Societies
VIII Discuss Irrigation.
The annual debate between the Delta
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