The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-01-09
Mayor Crite Casts Vote
For the Gas Franchise

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right to require said Company. at
any time, for good and reasonable
causes. to change, remove and relo-
cate any of its poles. masts or towers,
which are now or may hereafter be
erected. And said The Clarksburg
Gas & Electric Company, shall. with
in six months, file with the City Clerk
a complete map of the City, showing
the location of Its poles. masts and
towers In said City; and within thirty
days after any new extension is made
by said Company of its poles, masts
and towers, it shall make such ex-
tension on said maps fled with the
City Clerk.
III. The clarksburg Gas & Elec-
trio Company shall replace and repair
and put in as good condition, all
streets. alleys. sidewalks, payements,
curbing, cutters and all other City
property, as they were Immediately
before the excavations for such work
were made, within period of ten
days after the same were SO disturb
ed by said Company; and in case said
Company fails and neglects to fully
repair such streets, alleys, sidewalks,
pavements, cnrbing, cutters and 9th
er City property within the said per-
iod of ten days, the Street Commis-
sioner or other City officer then exer-
cising the powers now conferred up
on the Street Commissioner, shall
proceed to repair all such damages
done to said streets, alleys, side
walks, pavements. cutters, curbing
and all other city property, and rem
der bill for the same to said Com
pany of the exact cost of sucn re-
pairs, plus penalty of fifteen per
centum of such cost, payable on de-
mand; and said Company shall there
upon be liable to said City for said
amount.
w. The clarksburg Gas & Electric
Company shall not erect nor main
tain on the streets. alleys or pubic
grounds of the City, any guy-line /.
guy-wires or guy-cables running from
any of the poles, masts or towers to
or near the surface of the ground,
and shall not anchor on the streets,
alleys or public grounds OF the City,
any such lines or wires within less
than ten feet of the surface OF the
ground at the point OF anchorage.
And The Clarksburg Gas & Elec-
tric> Company shall. within ninety
days from the acceptince Of this or
dinance on its part, remove and abol-
ish any and all. such guy-lines, guy
wires and guy-cables not in conform
ity with the foregoing provisions.
v. The City of Clarksburg reserv-
es to itself the right at any future
time, to require said Company to re-
move all towers, poles, masts, lines
and wires and other electrical ap-
piiances from above the surface OF
the ground, in, upon and along any
or all OF the streets and alleys of
said City, and to bury the same to
proper depth beneath the surface. of
such OF the streets and alleys as may
then be designated for such purpose,
and maintain the same under
ground: Provided, however, that
the City shall not require The Clarks-
burg Gas & Electric Company to bury
its wires, lines and cables under the
surface of any street or alley in said
City until all other persons, firms or
corporations having franchises from
said city, using wires and cables,
shall also be required to bury and
maintain their wires and cables be-
meath the surface of such streets or
alleys as required by the City.
vi. The Clarksburg Gas & Elec-
tric Company shall, within ninety
days after having been ordered so to
do by the City, abate, so far as prac-
ticable, any and all nuisance now. or
which may hereafter be caused by
exhaust steam from its electric light
plant. And The Clarksburg Gas &
Electric Company agrees that, in the
event it resumes the use OF soft coal
or any other fuel that produces
smoke, at its electric light plant, it
will install, maintain and use the lat
est and most approved machinery or
appliances then known in order to
abate the nuisance caused by the
smoke
VII. The Clarksburg Gas & Elec-
trio Company shall erect and main
tain its poles. masts and towers so as
not to interfere with the water lines,
public or private sewers or other
property of the City. And The
Clarksburg Gas & Electric Company
shall, at all times, save the City