The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-21


meeting of the city council late We'd
nesday afternoon, vetoed the ordl-
nonce providing for a 100000 mu-
nicipal light and power plant and
submitting the matter to the vote Oh
the people on July first The cleo
ton will still be held on that date,
but the people will only vote on the
$4,000 so-called west side drain
proposition. 1t was the sentiment OF
most of those present at the meeting
that the efforts of the city admins
tration could now be centered in pro-
curing better sanitary conditions for
North Yakima.
The mayors action was taken as
the result of the proposal made We'd
nesday by the Pacific Power and
Light company to cut out the charge
of s125 and 81 so per year for wa
ter meters in the city.
When asked his reason for not
voting at the informal meeting of the
council Wednesday afternoon, Fred
r. Shaw said that he was not yet
ready to give up his fight to secure
better light service and rates for the
people of North Yakima. 81 rcscrv-
ed my vote for next Monday night p"
said Councilman Shaw. who con-
tinuel THE city is now paying SILL
600 year for lighting the streets and
hast recently contracted With the Pa
cidc Power and Light company to
give Naches avenue additional light
at a cost of about $4,000, making Il
total of $4,000 paid out for that pur-
pose yearly by the city. This amount
would pay 4 Y per cent interest on
the 100000 asked for to build a mu-
nicipal lighting plant. which. if we
had, would give the city for the same
amount fine cluster lights on all the
principal streets. The difference the
people would pay for electrical cur
rent. as the new plant would prob
ably cut the price down to five cents.
would enable them to save every
year in hard cash more than they are
paving for taxes. This is the only
chance the city will ever have at the
company: and the only site that the
city could have secured without great
expense is lost to the people Of North
Yakima because they were not given
an opportunity to vote on the ques-
ton The health conditions are bad,
but | attribute them to the water we
are getting. | see only one thing in
the vetoing of the ordinances that is
satisfa ctory to me and that is that
Mr. Armbruster now has nothing to
holler about. | want to say one
thing, and that is that Mr.. Kingman,
the local representative of the Pa
cifc Power and Light company, has
always treated us the best he could.
He is one of the best men the COM
pany ever sent here"
Councilman John II. Lynch, who
was not present at the afternoon
gathering of the councilmen. stated
to the Herald that he had received
no notification of the meeting lie
was in court at the time it was held.
Speaking of the action taken, toun-
Gilman Lynch said: 81 am opposed
to it and think it was weakened !
think the people have been deprived
of the privilege of deciding the ques-
ton themselves--the people who are
paying the bulk of the light bills.
The matter should have been sub
mitted al this time for the reason
that the city now has an opportunity
To acquire the only available power
site in this vicinity without going to
enormous expense. This power site
will now be grabbed up by some pri-
yate interest and If the city should
ever went il. it will have to condemn
and pay a high price in addition. /
regard the action Of the council and
hi,
that has ever been struck against this
community. for il effectuallN prevents
the city from ever engaging in the
| light and power business itself We
could have produced our own cleo
| trio energy at cost Of two cents per
| k. W. h. and sold il a. a profit to the
consumer at an average price Of not
more than five cents per K ". a.; and
| sold the daylight current as low as
| one cent per k. W. n. for power pur-
poses thus encoura ging the develop
ment of manufacturing in the COM
munity We have no manufa ctures
| now for the simple reason that power
| is too expensive, and our local plants
| could not compete with such places
as Tacoma Seattle. etc. where the
| bower is sold as low as s-10 To $40
of "A cent during the daylight hours
Up to noon todaysr FUZZY expected