Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-16

nOuT, uul always III eACeSD OF, anu
separate from the amount due on ac-
count of the use of electricity from
the circuit or Iced hereinbefore de-
scribed for lighting, power and cook
ing, and it is understood and agreed
that the City shall have the right to
demand and purchase one-third
(1-9) or less of the electricity sold
by the Company in the Rogue River
Valley for heating purposes, and the
Company shall supply the same. And
If the present rate of the Company is
raised by the Railroad Commission
of Oregon elsewhere in the Rogue
River Valley, it shall likewise be
raised to the City of Ashland, and if
said heating service is discontinued
or abandoned by the Company in the
Rogue River Valley, by order of the
Railroad Commission of Oregon, it
shall also be discontinued and aban-
doned to the City of Ashland, and
the Company shall not be required
after thirty 800 days notice thereof
to the City to sell or deliver electric
current therefor to said City.
All electricity shall be measured
by suitable meters installed for such
purpose, one by the Company and
one by the City, on each circuit pro-
vided for herein, to the end that cor
rect readings as to the amount OF
current delivered to said City may be
had.
The officer, agent or employe OF
the City, and the agent or employe
of the Company appointed for the
purpose of reading said meters, shall
meet at the sub-station of the Com
pany at 1900 o'clock noon on the
first day of each and every month,
and then and there read the respect
i've meters herein provided for. If
there shall be a material difference
between the meter register of the
City and the meter register of the
Company, on either of said leads or
circuits, the said meters shall imme-
diately be tested, and upon such test,
the reading of that meter found to
correctly register, shall be accepted
as correct. If both meters shall, upon
test, be found to incorrectly register,
then the amount thereof shall be
mutually agreed upon or determined
by three electrical experts, one to be
selected by the City, one by the Com
pany, and the two to select third.
All electricity to be delivered by
the Company to the City at the
Company's sub-station as aforesaid
shall be delivered by what is known
as 23O0 volts, Starred or "Y" con-
nected, Three Phase, Alternating
current. The variation of the afore-
said voltage shall conform strictly to
Rule %, File No. U-F 81, of the
Railroad Commission of the State of
Oregon, or as the same may be here
after modified by said Commission.
The Company shall not be respons-
ible for failure to deliver electric
current to the City by reason of any
unavoidable accident to its lines or
power plants; the order or injunction
of any court; the inevitable act OF
God, or any other cause beyond its
reasonable control, and the Company
shall use all due and reasonable dill
gence and effort at all times to re-
pair its lines and plants and to de-
liver electric current as herein pro-
vided.
Upon determining the amount of
electricity delivered to the City dur
ing any and every month as afore-
said, the City hereby agrees to pay
to the Company in cash at the re-
corder's office of the City of Ash
land, Oregon, on or before the fif-
teenth day of each and every month,
the amount which may be found due
for the previous month, out OF the
Special Electric Fund of the City.
During the life of this agreement,
the Company hereby agrees not to
sell electricity to any consumer with
in the limits of said City, other than
to the City, nor otherwise enter into
competition with it, and the City on
its part agrees for such period not
to purchase electricity from any per-
son, company or corporation, other
than the Company, the party of the
second part, and the City further
agrees not to extend its lines for the
service of electricity beyond its lin
its where such service may in any
interfere, or be in competi-
ton with the service of the Company
in such outside territory, but this
provision shall not be construed as
the City from generating
electricity at the plant now owned by
said City on Ashland Creek.
If at any time during the life here
Of the City shall extend its boundary
lines and thereby include additional
within said City, and prior
to such acquisition the Company
shall have erected and maintained
poles, wires and distributing system
therein for the service of its patrons,
the City shall upon acquiring such
additional territory Immediately pur-
chase from the Company and pay for
he distributing lines used in the dis
-ribution and sale of electricity |
therein, including poles and other ap-
Daratus used in connection there
with, the price therefor to be deter
mined by three CD arbitrators, one
10 be selected by the City, one by
he Company, and the two so select
ID to choose the third; but the Com
pany shall not be deprived of the
light to maintain and operate
through such acquired territory nee
,ssary service leads, high tension and
telephone lines for the purpose OF
conducting electricity necessary to
he operation and conduct Of its bus
ness to territory beyond, and upon
such purchase of such lines by the