Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-12
Full Text Of Proposed
Contract With Power Company


Company against any amount which
may be found due or payable by the
City to the Company.
The Company agrees upon the rat
ification of this contract, by the quail
flied voters of the City of Ashland,
to cause to be surrendered by proper
deed or acquittance, to be executed
by the Ashland Electric Power &
Light Company, the franchise here
tofore granted by the City to said
Ashland Electric Power & Light
Company, by ordinance of said City
numbered 62, and upon such sur
render or conveyance of said fran
chise, and the rights hereunder
granted, to cease and discontinue
within and throughout the City the
distribution and sale of electricity to
the inhabitants thereof, save and eX-
cept that the Company shall have the
right to maintain and operate during
the period of five 90 years, from
the ratification hereof, line of poles
ard wires on and along Nevada
Street, Mountain Avenue and the
Ashland Boulevard, from its substa-
tion to be hereafter established in
said City, a line of service leads for
the purpose of conducting electricity
thereon to the district outside the
City limits, known as Bellview, and
at the expiration Of the said period
of five 60 years, or within such
earlier period as may be agreed
upon, to remove said lines Of poles
and wires, and construct another line
upon such route as may be designat-
ed and provided by the City, provid-
ed, that the City shall designate and
provide a reasonably direct route
which shall cause the Company, in
the construction of new line, no
unnecessary expense either in its con-
struction or it's maintenance, and
when so constructed the Company
shall have the right and privilege to
maintain and operate said line for
and during the remainder of twenty
(20) years from the ratification here
of, but during said time the Com
pany shall not sell or distribute from
said line any electricity within the
limits of said City, it being under
stood that the said line shall be
maintained as a service lead and tel
ephone line only for the sale and
distribution of electricity by the
Company beyond the limits of the
said City of Ashland, and the Com
pany shall also have the right and
privilege to erect and maintain a
line of poles and wires which shall
be a high tension line, and distrib-
uting main and Company telephone
line on and along Nevada Street,
Oak Street and Mountain Avenue,
north of Nevada Street, in said
city, from the limits thereof to
the sub-station of the Company on
Nevada Street, from which sub-sta-
ton the electricity hereinafter pro-
vided for shall be delivered by the
Company to the City.
The City shall have the right and
privilege, subject to the rules and re-
ouirements of the Railroad Commis-
sion of Oregon, to maintain upon the
poles of said line or service lead, on
Mountain Avenue and Boulevard,
such of its wires as may be accommo-
dated thereon, but such wires shall
be maintained at the expense of the
City of Ashland, and it shall pay for
upkeep, repairs, reconstruction and
maintenance of said poles to the
Company, its proportion thereof.
In consideration of the premises,
and as a further consideration OF
this agreement, the City agrees to
purchase from the Company as 1t
may require, and the Company
agrees to sell and deliver to the City
continuously and for twenty-four
(24) hour service during the full
period of twenty GOD years from the
ratification of these presents by the
qualified electors of the City, such
quantity or amount of electricity
at its sub-station to be constructed
in said City, as may be necessary to
satisfy and fulfill the demands OF
the city for its use and sale at the
following rates and prices, to-wit:
When the meter reading during
the period of one month shows the
current consumed to amount to
100000 kilowatt hours or less, the
price therefor shall be One (1c) cent
per kilowatt hour.
Should the meter reading show
10000 kilowatt hours or less during
any one month, the fixed minimum
charge therefor shall be Seven Hun
dred ($7O0.O0) Dollars.
100000 kilowatt hours 100000
all over this and not over
100000 kilowatt hours .OOS per
kilowatt hour additional
100000 kilowatt hours $1S0O.OO
all over this and not over
100000 kilowatt hours .0O6 per
kilowatt hour additional
100000 kilowatt hours 100000
all over 100000 kilowatt hours
.OO75 per kilowatt hour.
1t is agreed that the minimum
monthly amount to be paid by the
City to the Company shall be
$4,000 during the entire life of this
contract.
The foregoing rates shall apply
only to such electricity as may be
used or sold in said City for lighting,
motor service or power use and
cooking, and other purposes except
heating, and shall be delivered to the
said City upon an Independent or
separate circuit or lead out of the
sub-station, and shall ap-
ply during the life of this agree
ment. unless during said period the
Company shall sell electricity for like
purpose, service and in like quantity
to any other City in Jackson, Jose
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