The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-29
LARGER USERS
OF WATER BALk
Council Decides to Again Alter
Scale in Pending 0rdl-
nance.
cITY'S INCOME THREATENED
CLAUSE TO ENCOURAGE USE OF
METERS IN THE HOMES.

After hearing representatives of the
railways and large manufacturing con-
Germs of the city yesterday afternoon,
the city council committee of the whole
decided to make some concessions TO
those interests and will again alter the
pending water ordinance. Water Tor
commercial purposes will be sold at d
fat rate, by meter, of : cents for do
nestle purposes and 6 cents for COM
mercial use To further encourage pri-
vate individuals to put meters in their
houses a minimum Fmeter rate was
fixed at 60 cents a month, or $40 per
year.
Besides the mem bers of the city coun-
ell there were present: E. Stenger, su-
perintendent of the Denver & Rio
Grande, and Z. NJ. Allison. jr., counsel
for that company; Farley L. Williams.
attorney for the Oregon Short Line, and
Attorney Stephens of that road; Jacob
Moritz, brewer: a. Fisher, brewer; L.
l.. Terry of the Troy laundry and James
Dole of the Standard laundry and Will
liam Prackwinkel of the Utah Ice &
Cold Storage company. These repre-
sent the largest users of water in the
city.
All these, with the exception of Mr..
Dole. were firm in their protest against
the rate of cents per 1000 gallons for
commercial use, which the ordinance
purposed to fix.
Mr.. Stenger and Mr.. Williams both
stated that their companies would not
stand a rate of more than cents per
/ 1000 gallons. which was an increase of
~ cents over what they are paying
now.
, Mr. Stenger of the Rio Grande said
u
actness what they could pay for city
water, and it could not go over cents,
or water would be obtained elsewhere.
Where an income of $4,000 now comes
to the city from the Denver & Rio
Grande and oregon Short Line, if the
city persisted in overcharging them, he
said, the income would not be more
than $4,000 q year.
Mr.. Terry also stated that if the pro-
posed increase were insisted on the
/ Troy laundry would be forced to find
/ water elsewhere
Users Fix q Price.
/ Mr.. Prackwinkel of the Utah lee &
I Cold Storage company said his COM
pany was willing to pay cents per
/ 1000 gallons, and could not go higher.
This rate was accepted by the others
present. who all fixed il as the limit.
Jacob Moritz followed with an argu-
ment that such methods were likely to
drive manufacturing concerns out OF
the city instead of encouraging them
to come in and employ labor
t One laundryman. James Dole, then
/ presented another side of the question
I He said he was one of the smaller men
ana made a plea for a fat rate by
which he would pay precisely the same
IL, r,rnz,orfspr, DC he - 1.
line. He said he was willing to pay
any rate the city fixed, provided it was
the same rate for all Under the slid
ing scale now in use. he said. he paid
almost as much for his water as con-
\ Germs using many times as much. Which
he closed Councilman J. ID. Murdoch
remarked that he was glad to he1r OF
one business man who did not have q
pumping plant in his pocket
Thomas HOLIDAY, superintendent OF
waterworks, also urged fat rate. He
told of his own business as a florist
Then he paid 10 cents per 1000 gallon,
when his neighbor, Jacob Moritz. gof
his for 81 cents per 1000 gallons.
Table Of Users.
a table showing the amount of wate1
used by some of the large concerns atC
the price PAID for it under the seal,
now in force. which ranges from 81 t,
10 cents thousand gallons, accordin:
to the amount used, follows:
Gals Amt
Oregon Short Line ... .I75.0f2.OoO S. IA. 0
Troy Laundry -..---.-- 43. T04.00 1.529. 5
Utah I. q c. S. CO.. -, 038. 900 2 626. l
Fisher Brewing CO.. 17.500.000 612 3
Rio Grande Western. Ii ,644.G00 400 q
salt Lake Brewery. 50. 104, 900 1S55. c
After the protestants had withdraw
the council did not delay long 1t wa
moved by Councilman Murdoch that tn