Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-14
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 by Chicago last week when the city council made complete publieity Of accounts the basis of it's renewal Of the franchise Of the Chicago Tele- phone company. This is directly in line with the latest work of the Inter state Commerce commission, which is now prescribing the forms in which the railroads shall keep their ac- counts Isnt as annlied hS city ta local utility 1t is a distinct new de- parture. The ordinance reserves to the city the right, also, to regulate rates at future intervals and was the result of what was probably the most thorough investigation Of the tele- phone question ever undertaken by d public body. Nearly two years was spen: in collecting information from all over the world Endless facts and figures were unearthed showing the superiority of the measured rate over the fiat rate method of charging tor the business telephones of great cities. Among other interesting facts 1t developed that nearly all the large 1 European governments are now apan- doning the flat rate, because they have found 1t unjust and impractica- ble.
 The defeat of Congressman Burton for the mayoralty of Cleveland. which will retain in congress this forceful champion of more adequate approprf- ations for rivers and harbors of the United States, has important bearing on river and harbor bills at the next 1 session. The National Rivers ana Harbors congress, which will hold it's next convention in Washington, December 4-5?6, has blazed the way for radical change in the attitude of congress toward rivers and har- bors bills. When he was chairman of the House committee on Rivers | and Harbors, Congressman Burton publicly declared that the inyestiga- tions and work of the Rivers and
 Harbors congress had brought about the new impetus given to the water way and harbor improvement prof l ects. That organization has been able to prove with figures it's deter 1 mined contention that appropriauurs of S5o.000,000 a year are needed to catch up with accumulated needs of the country, which government engin- eers say amount to S400, 900 900.
 The enormous shortage in the ap- pie crop promises to be larger than
 was at first supposed and reports to
 Chicago from the West and South.
 west indicate total failure in many l regions. This means that the farm
 CTS of Maine and Pennsylvania will
 reap handsome profit at the ax. pense of their less fortunate brothers in Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas and other states. The difference in con. ditions of fruit growing in the East
 and the West was never more strik ingly illustrated. The orchards of New England are so small and Sc | scrupulously cared for that it is nol
 uncommon for the trees in the tinier plots to be given individual names Once the State PomologicaI Society
 of Maine sent representative
 through the West to study conditions there. When he reported to the so- | efety about the size of the orchards he had seen-some of them contain
 ing as many as twenty-five hundred | acres-the eyes of the Yankee farm CTS bulged. But the climax came
 when he told of two countries he had | been to in the Southwest, each of
 which contained over 100000 trees.
 This was too much for the back
 yard'' orchardists and hillside apple
 growers and the meeting was ad- 1 journeyed in profound silence. q | know Jim don't mean to be ontruth- | ful," commented a graybread later, but it stands tew reason there aint
 tew million trees in the hull state O
 Maine"
 Two hundred seventeen gallons of
 water per day for every man, woman
 and child-that is the requirement.
 on which the total supply for Chi
 cago's present population of 2,370,0
 and future population of 5,00e, 900 has
 been based in the city engineer s 1 plans. The present investment in
 water system of $35,000, ,0OO is to be
 increased to S52.00G,000 by some large l extension contracts under way
 amounting to over s5,O00,000, and fol