Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-03-21

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ed, in the City OF lronton, in Iron County,
state OF Missouri, and for that purpose per-
mission is hereby granted James 7. Porteus,
ms helrs, executors, administrators and as
signs 10 set poles and string wires upon and
along the streets, alleys, roads, parks and
public grounds and public places within the
corporate limits OF said city for
the purpose OF placing, taking up
when the same shall be necessary for
the manufacture and distribution OF cleo
trlctty Tor light and power purposes. The
right, privilege and franchise hereby grant
ed James 7. PorteuS, his heirs, executors, ad-
ministrators and assigns shall be for a
period OF twenty (20) years from and after
the legal passage OF this ordinance, provided
the right and franchise herein granted
shalt NOT pc construed to be an exclusive
right or franchise.
SECTION 2. All wires commonly known as
conductors shall be strung at least twenty
l20) 1eet above ground upon poles with cross
arms, and so as not to interfere with any
telephone wire now in use and existing in
said City the poles to be OF convenient size
and height, straight, symmetrical, uniform
IN size, and neatly planned or shaved, and
snail be set in the streets and public places
OF the city as near the lines as may be con-
venient; upon installation n OF said system the
poles shall be OF cedar or chestnut; said
poles shall be set at suitable distances read
lily to bear the weight OF the conductors that
may be strung upon them, and such poles
may at all corners be guyed or braced with
wire guys to iron anchors planted in the
parkWays and streets of said city. n such
poles and wires shall be so set and strung as
TO be safe and not TO unnecessarily obstruct
the free use OF the streets, alleys or other
public places or private drives wherein they
are placed.
SECTION 8. That in the stringing OF wires
or erection OF poles as contemplated by this
ordinance by James 2. Porteus, his heirs,
administrators, executors and assigns, the
said City OF lronton hereby grants the right
| tn GnjH Tap1ng ID DnptaI1G ne tpir ~, M Inn ~
tree or trees that may come within two feet
OF the conductors used for distributing said
electric current. The aforesaid work shall
not interfere with or iniure the drainage OF
the said City of Ironto1, or interfere with
or injure any tile or underground fixtures
for the conveyance OF water which the said
CITY may have or hereafter make in or Upon
the streets, avenues, alleys or public places
AFORESAID or any portion thereof and when
ever any OF said poles shall interfere with
the improvement or construction of any
street, alley or sewerin said city or the free
use OF any such street or alley by the public
as th~oroughfare, said James p. PorteuS,
his heirs, executors. administrators and as
signs shall on ten days notice in writing
from the Board OF Aldermen OF said city re-
move or relocate such poles on the same
streets or alleys, at the COmpany'S own eX-
perse, so as not to interfere with such pub
lie improvement or use.
SECTIoN4 a. That i'll consideration OF the
franchise hereby and herein conferred the
6uIu JdlllGS L. IOElGuS, HIS llClES, executors,
administrator and assigns hereby agrees to
install the proper machinery Tor the manu-
facture OF electricity Tor power and light
and whenever the said James P. Porteus,
his heirs, executors, administrators and as
signs shall commence the work as herein
contemplated it shall not during the pro-
gress OF the work unnecessarily obstruct
passage for the free use OF said streets, al
leys, avenues or public places; and the said
James p. Porteus, his heirs, executors, ad-
ministrators and assigns shall maintain at
night red lights or danger signals to be
properly placed while work is in progress
which shall from the nature OF the work be
liable to cause accident and he shall take all
other necessary precaution to prevent acct
lent during the progress OF such work.
SECTION 5. For the purpose OF lighting the
streets and other public places in said City
for a term OF ten 10l years, there shall be
placed in position and equipped for use
Twenty 10Y One Hundred 100)
Watt Tungsten lamps, or the equiva-
such places in said City as shall be desig-
mated by the Board OF Aldermen OF said City
when or before the said James P. Porteus
shall be ready to install same, said lights or
as to hang perpendicularly above the street,
avenue or alley and for the service OF which
the said city agrees to pay, for a term OF ten
years, the life OF the contract herein entered
into, the said James +. Porteus, his heirs, ex-
ecutors, administrators and assigns the sum
OF Thirty-Six Dollars tS36l per annum per
lamp fofl service every night and all night;
and the said James p. Porteus agrees to fur
nish said lamps and such others OF like size
and power as may be hereafter required by
said city at the price above mentioned and to
furnish said light to said own from the be-
ginning OF darkness on each and every
night until the beginning OF daylight the
next morning; and 1t is agreed tina lsaid
James P. Porteus, his heirs, executors, adj
ministrators and '~assignslat all times during
the life OF this ordinance shall furnish suffi-
cient electricity to properly operate said
lamps and such others as may be hereafter
required by said city, and said city hereby
| agrees to pay said James,P. Porteus month
ly. Additional street light installations
will be made on the order OF the Board OF
Aldermen, where not more than three hun
dred 1901 feet of additional pole line con-
struction will be required for the equivalent
OF each one hundred (100) Watt Tungsten
lamp, the price for the service to be the
same per lamp as in The original contract,
viz: Thirty-Six Dollars 1885, per annum. A
defini location for the not to exceed
Twenty (20l lamps in the original contract
to be definitely fixed by the Board OF Alder
men and agreed upon by grantee on or be-
fore the acceptance OF this ordinance.
SECTION 6. And the said James p. Porteus,
his heirs, executors, administrators and as
signs agrees to furnish to the citizens OF the
city OF Ironton n to the city for other
than street lighting purposes electricity for
light and power at the rate of sixteen cents
l.16crPer kilowatt hour for the first ten (lO)
hllOWdll consumed III any one month, and
eight cents t.0Sc) per kilowatt for
additional current consumption in the
same month. Said grantee, his heirs, ex-
ecutors, administrators and assigns shall
not increase the price at which he Is to
furnish electricity during the life OF the
franchise herein granted, provided however,
thai said James p. Porteus, his heirs, execu-
tors, administrators and assigns shall have
a right to charge one dollar (S1 .00) per month
as a minimum charge for the electricity per
meter consumed, whether the total mou
of current consumed amounts to that sum
or not, and the said James P. Porteus, his
shall furnish commercial lights in all dis
tricts where wires are strung and at any
time the same may be desired from the time
of darkness until daylight following.
SECTION l. That in consideration OF the
granting Of this franchise the said James, p.
| Porteus, his heirs, executors, administra tors
and assigns hereby agrees that during the
first fifteen 15) years OF this franchise he
Will install poles and wires and furnish cleo
tricfty on every street, avenue or alley OF
the said city OF Ironton whenever the resi-
gross revenue OF at least len Dollars ($t0l
per month from lighting or power purposes.
SRcTIoNS. That the privileges herein and
hereby granted are made on the express
| condition that the said James p. Porteus, his
| heirs, executors, administrators and assigns
shall within six months OF the passage of
this ordinance begin active operations for
Installing the poles and stringfng the wires
thereon, and said grantee, his heirs. execu-
tors, administrators n assigns h with
In twelve months from the passage Of this
GRAFTON the twenty 10y One Hundred t10O)
1 Watt IamDa eOntra NJ ad fOr NV said town and