The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-06-27
Power Company
Will Cut Rates
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+ WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL
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= Received rate proposition +
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= company. No reduction In +
r schedule to private consumers. :
= Reductions to manufacturing t
= plants. =
r No more street paving this +
+ season on account of financial +
z condition of city.
= Assessor Zimmerman dis +
= covers kicking" against high +
= taxes. =
. Number of matters engage I
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From Mondays Daily.
No more paving will be done in
Mankato this year. Mayor Meyer
made a motion at the council meet
ing this morning to this effect, and
1t carried, all members but Council
man Lamm voting for the motion,
and Mr.. Lamm did not vote. Mayor
Meyer says that the financial condi-
ton of the city is not such that any
more improvements of this kind
would be warranted this year, and
that there are too many other inn
provements which are more import
ant. Peter j. Lloyd and James Baker
protested against the paving of War
rem street at the present time, and
did not want this done as long as
the street car line runs up this
street. They wished to have the car
tracks changed to run up the Silver
rayine road to Clark street, or if the
company could not be induced to
make this change, they thought that
the paving should be put off for two
years at which time the street car
company will have to pay for it's
share of the paving. 1t seems that
the company is not forced to pay for
paving during the first seven years
Of service, and the seven years will
not have expired until 1915.
= Prices For Street Lighting.
r. E. Brown, general manager of
the Consumers Power company hand
ed in a schedule of prices for street
lighting for the next five years, to
take effect as soon as the present
contract expires which will be in a
few months The company offers to
light the streets all night and every
night for sos per lamp per year. At
present the lights are not burning all
night, and the number of hours they
are lighted is from $500 to 5000 per
year. Under the "all night-every
night" schedule, the lights would be
burning approximately 1000 hours
per year, SO this is a reduction of
about .25 per cent. AS an induce
ment to get factories to locate in
Mankato the company agrees to give
a reduction OF power rates, and
where the gross bills per month
amount to 500 or over, the COM
pany offers reduction of 10 per-
cent; where the monthly bill is 5000
or. over, reduction of Is per cent
will be given; where the bill is $500
or over, the reduction will be 20 per
cent and where the bill is $500 or
over the reduction will be rs per
cent. This is additional to the GUS
tomary discount of 10 per cent for
cash payment of bills. Councilman
Lack asked Mr.. Brown if there
would be reduction in gas rates or
in lighting rates to private consum-
ers, and Mr.. Brown said that he had
taken this matter up with the home
office in Chicago, and that his super
Tors would not stand for any further
reduction on account of the high cost
of coal and high freight rates.
Bond Is Approved.
= The bond of E. D. Wilmot for the
use of the streets in Mankato dur
ing construction work was approved.
A petition signed by ten property
owners asked for several cross walks
on Lime street, and the matter was
laid on the table, and City Engineer
II. F. Blomquist will look into the
situation and report to the council.
A resolution was passed for the in
suanee of bonds to the amount of
$500 for the construction of water
mains in East Mankato.
The following liquor license bonds
were approved: Troske & Johnson,
Huettle & Wagenhals, Christ Pol
chow Son, F. j. Mettler, John c..
Hagen, Henry Veigel, Gus L. Thurn,
eATnsdorf & Klasius and Peter
'Kiages. Bids were opened for print
ing 500 copies of the city engineers
report, and the Daily Review handed
In bid of $125 and William w.
Meixner offered to do the work for
about $S5. The contract was award
ed. to Mr.. MeiXner. Bids were also
aopened for curbing and guttering ac-
@Cording to the advertisements for
sthis work, and the council adjourned
TO meet at two o'clock this after
noon to give the city engineer time
to audit the bids carefully to see
which was the lowest on each and
SalI streets. George E. Charland and
made an offer of so cents per lineal
foot; johnson Brothers, so cents, e.
u. Wilmot SO to S. cents, t. r.
s:oughlan SO to so cents, A. Bashaw
% to SIS cents, Fowler. and Pay 80 to
W cents
Kicking" on High Taxes.
A letter from Assessor Henry Him.
fnefman advised the council that in
his rounds as assessor, he had learn.