Arizona republican., 1909-06-01

school line. north from Portland Place
 which badly needs it, and build for
 permancy. It is and has been his
 proposition and the desire of his com
 pany to erect the permanent line on a
 properly established curve so the same
 line can be used for series incandes-
 cent illumination by placing lamp on
 each pole or each alternate pole, thus
 Illuminating the boulevard for three
 miles north of the city. All this of
 course would be at the company's ex-
 pense, the district would only be asked
 to pay for Service whenever it desired
 illumination.
 Concerning the gas branch of the business MT. Ensign says there has been a rapid expansion and extension also. In the last two.years the com pany has laid eight and eight-tenths miles of new two-inch mains and re- placed two and Half miles of two inch mains with four-inch mains in order to take care of increased de- mand. Extensions have been made to all places where there was any possible show of returns on the investment In this connection, illustrating the growth of the city and the company's business, over 700 new consumers have been connected with the gas mains and over 800 new consumers have been connect ed with the electric lines, exclusive of very extensive growth in the power business. MT. Ensign in this connec- tion emphasized the point that electric power is used almost exclusively in Phoenix merely because of its being cheaper than any other power
 The manager says it is the intention of the company to continue making extensions following up new building sections and giving the people what they ask for as long as they are within reasonable range of the distributing systems.
 A recent publication criticizing the company stated that it demanded a bonus of $1O0 each from six individual customers within block of it's present gas mains, the bonuses not to be re- turned to the customers. In response to this MT. Ensign makes absolute and complete denial and points in reply to many transactions of the company with outlying precincts. one for exam pie being deal with Elliot Evans, pro- moter of Chester place, a deal con summated the very day this publica- tion was made. MT. Evans advanced S100 as a bonus or rather as a bond, the gas to be delivered to the tenant of house in Chester place. he to pay his monthly gas bills to the company. to be turned back to Mr. Evans until the total of the s100 bonus has been returned. And to make the installation of the gas and electric service in this new subdivision, the company was at an expense of $365. The so-called bonus was merely an advance purchase of so much service. It is a practice in many cities and is now one of the GUS toms of all the Los Angeles companies who only refund 66 per cent.
 Work is progressing very rapidly on the new station which is to receive the government power. One car load of machinery will arrive tomorrow and five other car loads are en route hay ing left the General Electric factory on May 26. All possible speed will be used to get this equipment into operation at the earliest possible date. The com pany is anticipating the making of additions to the plant this to get ready for the ever in creasing demand which comes in the fall of each year.
 MT. Ensign says the company is fully appreciative of the liberal patron age it has received from the Phoenix people and has striven always to make itself deserving of it. It has planned and extensions for bet ter service as fast as possible and tried in every way to keep up with reason able demands, and believes these ef- forts have been appreciated by the major part of it's patrons. It has had much to contend with and there are many things in the operation of plant that cannot be fully understood except with some technical knowledge of the business and of the local conditions, but the management has done the best it could under the circumstances and expects to continue along the same lines.