Evening journal., 1911-12-08
Peoples Column
ELECTRIC RATES.
Winnipeg City Council Decides to
Charge Three Cents a KilOwatt.

Winnipeg City Council Decides TO
Charge Three Cents a KiIOwatt.
Editor of THE EVENING JOURNAL.
The following clipping speaks for
itself, and it talks directly to Will
mington people and # says a great
many important things:
WINNIPEG. Manitoba, Dec c.
The city has definitely fixed the
price Of light and power in the
municipal plant at 3 cents per
kilowatt, and the private com
pany declared It would meet the
cut This is a reduction of 60
per cent from the rate which pre-
vailed before the city plant was
started.
The council also decided further
to reduce rates. if later It develop
ed they proved more than sufii-
cient to pay interest on the sink
ing fund
Now what does II say? Remember
Mr.. Wilmingtonian that it is only a
few weeks since there was before the
Street and Sewer Department an ap-
plication for franchise for a light
and power company, and those who
rate OF seven cents a kilowatt was
a saving Of thirty per cent on what
you were then and what you are now
paying.
It is only just to say that It was
never shown conclusively that what
the Public Utility Light, Heat and
Power Company offered would accom-
plish such a saving, and there was
IL should also be remembered, a
rather eccentric and unsatisfying ef-
fort by those who now have the ex.
elusive right to sell electric light and
power in this city, to prove that there
would not be such saving as was
claimed to the people of Wilmington
1t appears in Winnipeg that they hav,
different way of doing things. Sever
cents a kilowatt and three cents 4
kilowatt represents a wide margin
but the striking thing about it is tha
it is so easy 10 understand. VIII,
should we have a rate I'm Wilmington
that man has to go to a fortun,
teller or hire an expert accountant C
know what he is paying?
The most important thing that the
Winnipeg story suggests to Whining
ton people, however, is that small
manufacturers that were seeking To-
cations IL they had to choose between
city that was selling at three cents
and one that was selling at seven u
ten cents, would without question
choose the three cent city.
II Wilmington could sell 0ower fol
three cents a kilowatt, does any on,
believe that 1t could not get small
manufacturers to settle here? And II
Wilmington is selling for ten cen
what can he made and sold in oth,
cities for three cents. can Wilmington
expect to secure small manufact-
urers? Think about this. Mr. VIII.
mingtonian. and after a while yoU
will probably come TO the conclusion
that the franchise holders in this city
ore not only Imposing an evtortion or
Won hut they are also prohibiting th'
growth Of vour city
no not ston thinking when YOU e
that far however. hut keen on. an,
then reflect on what thev ore doin'
/ IN Winrineg Nanoleon told his dis
coura cod marshal who said the Ain
could rot he pessed that where ~
Anime gont could 20 Frencl
advance. II arv ono viii saw tha
whore the neonie ~ Winnipeg can q
n Is imnOssihie for the neonle Of VIII
minrton, be sure they are the Maid NJ
tornevs or the dunes Of nrivileee. .
are petting or expecting to get som
Of the swag.
John s Hamilton
Wilmington. December Z.