Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-11
WEIGHT INSPECTOR F0R B|SBEE FINDS
 MANY IN SUPPORT
Success of Ordinance in Tucson Wins Advo-
 cateS in BiSbee
USEFULNESS SHOWN

A weights and measures ordinance, similar to that Of the city of Tucson, is being aavOcated for Bisbee Coun cilman Qnick, Of the city council. is one of the adyOcators. He brought the matter up at the last meeting of the city council and urged that some action be taken on the ordinance that was prepared nearly a year ago and has been allowed TO rema.n in a pigeon hole since that time The councilman reported to the council that he has received many complaints regarding short weights and he said. We are here for the purpose of pro tecting the people and believe that We should take action in regard 10 this proposed ordinance"
 The mayors attention was called to the report of the Sealer Of weights and measures of the city of Tucson by prominent citizen yesterday and the mayor will obtain data from Tue. son on the workings of the ordinance there and submit it to the Bisbee council The following from the re. port of the Tucson officials, gives some idea of the operation Of the ordinance in that city
 Works in Tucson.
 Many other instances might be quoted. because. in the ease of inef. cient balances and scales. it follows naturally. since they have almost in. yariably been found to favor the deal. CT. that similar conditions control rel. atiye to all other commodities in daily use Dy the people, thus entailing a heavy aggregate joss, distributable. ot course. among the lnnumerable pur. chases. The correction of defciei.t scales has, therefore. resulted to the general financial betterment of the people at large. including. undoubted- ly. thousands of dollars annually.
 The inspection of coal-weighing ar. paratus. milk containers. yard sticks bread. liGuid measures. etc, have re. suited similarly to the benefit of Dur. chasers. because the great majority of merchants, ignorant of the fact that their scales read unre4iably. prompt. iy and cheerfullv welcome these in- spections and subsequent corrections and adjustments. While upon this subject. l will say that l have CT. countered scales that while apparent. ly balancing properly, so far as the naked eve can discern. under the test ing apparatus clearly indic1te consid erable variances. 10 the exten of as much as eight ounces to the avoirdu. pois pound. caused by the wearing O, knife edges or from other reasons. In such instances. the dealers are noi morally blamabie. but, nevertheless the corrections rendered through such inspections revert to the peoples benefit"
 In regard to the number of inspec. tons. approcals, condemnations ana the seizures. the report was in detail with a summary showing total inspec. tons O. 267, condemnations l49 ID rrovals l1S, seizures 30.
 The results so far as our citizen. ship IS concerned are highly gratifv. ing. because the institution of the in. sDection system has caused the sa,. ing to our people of several thousands Of dollars by compelling correc, weighing on the part Of vendors.
 typical instance. that Of buftcr may be cited in Illustration: Practi cally all of the butter received in Tucson is received through Wells Far go X Co.'S Express. That comDanv's records show average monthly re. ceipts of about 1c.0O0 bounds. Bnt. ter tests. four months ago. proved tho average roil 10 contain ABA ounces avoirdupois; at present sihe average weight per roll is 15 1-2 ounces. Since inc neople of Tucson are now obtain. ing three-0uarter ounces additional to the roll. over and above what thev then received. this gain, based upoD an average retail selling price of 4G cents per pound. with a total monthly consumption of 16000 pounds.@ would mean $500 per month. or, pronortion Gtely S3.SOO per annum upon this sir gle item