The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-04-28
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Light and Hater Proposition

z proposition made ~ --s Sow
Creek Water Company 70 The Town @.
Lezyenvo-ta, rezd Z. = regular meeting
q ne town council Tsss1zg eTe1lag.
printed IN fsu II connection Win aa@
council proceedings OIL aas Frs. Page q
this gs1e q Tae Ecoo, raises : esez-
ton Of f-s.--ste importance. 10. g1lg 70
the town as Z whole. 1u. 70 every 51sl-
ness mzn and hoaseao.1e, within The
limits q the corporation Is II i1cl..c-
1aL The question IS nothing less t1a1
me cost Of lgat and water. tTo i1cis-
pens.ble requisites.
The contract existing between -ae
town and tae Tam1ster Ign. and Va
ter Company, tanng ye. some eighteen
months 70 I'm. fixes The cost Of me fr@#
hydrants at S35 each per yes5; the fsty
3z-csndle-power street lamps u 81
each per month; me cluster lamps on
Front street a. 81 Z cluster per month.
The light and water furnished tor the
city hall is based O. Inc rate made 70
the general public, which IS tor water
service At residence tor : single zap.
$50 per month, with an additional
charge Of d cents ior each additional
TAP. IN business houses the ra.s is
higher.
To the general public the cos Of the
light service Is 3 cents per ki.oTa. icI
the first 90 kilows.s; over 90 and under
100, 9 cents per kiloTa.; over 100
8 cents per kilowat, With = minimum
charge Of not less than s. per month
70 each person The present cost Of
the light and water served 70 the town
By the Tumwater Light and Water Com
pany is between $1,000 and $500
The additional lights contemplated in
the new contract before the council for
adoption will increase the total cost Of
light and water foI the corporation 70
approximately $1,000 per year
The proposition submitted 10 the
council By the Snoa Creek Water Com
pany at the meeting Tuesday night
fixes the cost Of fire hydTan.s al SO .
year, OF a reduction Of So On each ny
drant; the cost Of the 32-candle street
lamps is fixed Al 81 a lamp per month,
reduction Of just one-haH rom the
present cost. In addition to this the
Snow Creek Water Company proposes
10 furnish light and water for all public
buildings and water for street sprnking
and make no charge al all for the same.
II the Snow Creek Water Company
can and will furnish water and light to
the town at one-haH the price paid for
the same service TO the T1mgater
Light and Water Company, it can and
will make about the same reduction in
the service to the general public. The
saving which IS possible 10 be made
under the proposition submitted BY the
Snow Creek Water Company to the town
and the public viii run into thousands
Of dollars.
In this connection it may not be out
Of place to remind the taxpayers that
they pay not only their individual light
and water bills, but in an indirect way
they also pay the light and water bills
Of the corporation. All the money ez-
pended by the town council comes out
Of the pockets Of the taxpayers in one
way or another. A thousand dollars
saved by the corporation on its light
and water bills every year means that
much less money out Of the pockets OF
the taxpayers. The very least that the
council can do is to give the PROPOSE
ton Of the Snow Greek Water Company
careful and prayerful consideration.
They may very properly be reminded
that they are not acting in their capac-
ity as councilmen for themselves as in
diyiduas, but for the community as
whole.
In conversation with one Of the
councilmen he said to the writer that
the Tumwater Light & Water Company
was not a paying institution at its pres
ent rate Of charges for service. We
were also told that the LID. Store Co.,