The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-07-12
THE FAIR The to Money COLFAX

underground IN pipes or cOndults or otherwise
protected and all such apparatus may be
used and as may be necessary or proper to
operate and maintain the same provided, how
ever, nothing herein contained shall be con-
strEed to waive or nulllty any provisions here
matter contained reserving powers to the said
city of Colfax, or imposing duties on the said
company or its successors or assigns.
Section 2 1t shall be lawful for the said
7 he Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
Company, a corporation, its successors and
assigns to make all needful excavations in any
Of the streets, alleys, avenues, thoroughfares
and public highways in said city of COlfaX for
the purposes of placing, erecting, laying and
maintaining poles or other supports or con-
ductors for said wires or repairing, renewing
or replacing the same, or for the purpose of
laying pipes or cOnduits or other appliances
under ground for conducting currents of cleo
tricitY as herein provided. SAID work shall
be done in compliance with such necessary
rules and regulations ordinances, resolutions,
directions and orders as shall from time to
time be prescribed and adopted by the city
council of the said city of Colfax. The owner
and holder of this franchise shall place its
| poles or other means of conducting electric
current or devices of every kind in such
places as shall least interfere with the of
the streets, alleys, highways and thorough
fares by the public and inhabitants of the said
| city of COfax.
this franchise its successors or assigns or any Of
! its or their agents, servants employees shall
disturb any of the streets, alleys or thorough
| fares aforesaid, it or they shall restore the
| same to good order and condition soon
| practicable and without necessary delay, and
the said city council shall have the right to fix
such time shall to it seem reasonable and
proper within which such repairs and restora-
| ton of streets and alleys shall be completed,
| and upon the failure of such repairs being com
pleted within said time, said city council Of
the city of Colfax may cause said repairs to be
| made at the expense of said Pacific States
| Telephone and Telegraph Company, it's sue
| cessors or assigns
Section 4. Nothing in this ordinance shall
| be so construed as to in any manner prevent
or interfere with any public work or improve
| ment of any kind by or on behalf OF the said
| city of COlfax, upon any alley, street, high
| way, thoroughfare or other public property
whatever.
Section s. The said city council reserves
| unto itself the right to direct, whenever one
| thousand local telephones shall be In use with
in said city, that said Pacific States Telephone
| and Telegraph Company shall not maintain
any overhead wire or wires upon Main street
for FIVE consecutive blocks in the principal
business section of the said city but shall lay
all of it's wires required to be laid in said part
of said city in underground pipes, conduits
other proper devices under ground
Section 8. The said city council reserves
unto itself the right to regulate the tolls and
rates to be charged by the said grantee of this
franchise so that said tolls or rates shall be
just, uniform and equitable, one with another
and shall not exceed the rates charged in any
city of similar class within the state Of Wash
ington.
Section z. The said Pacific States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, a corporation,
its successors and assigns shall pay into the
treasury of said city annual fee or charge of
two hundred fifty dollars (S25000) for the
rights hereby granted, said sum to be paid
annually in advance on or before the first day
of August of each year during the life of this
franchise and further agrees to furnish one
business telephone free for the use of said city
during the life of this franchise and to keep
the same IN good repair.
Section 5 The rights and privileges here
by granted shall be and continue in full force
for the period of fifteen (15) years from and
after the date of the passage of this ordinance
Section 8. This ordinance before going in
to effect shall be accepted by the said com
pany, and its acceptance of same and all of
its provisions shall be Endorsed hereon.