The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-18

accept the terms proposed by the
Mayor and your Committee.
DETROIT REpucTioN COMPANY.
Per ALr.N J. McLk,JD.
To the Honorable The Mssor IN.
Board 90 Aldermen and The Com
mlttee on Health aud city Hospi-
tails. OF the city OF Detroit.
Gentlemen ON December LIST. 1914.
We addressed a communication to the
Common Council I'm connection with
the disposal Of the household gar
bage collected by the city. for which
We now have contract that expires
June 30, 1878: In this communica.
tion we called attention to the well
known fRct that the City's duty as a
municipality was TO do what IL has
been doing FOR the past nine years.
namely To safeguard the public
health by making frequent and
waste. which IL very simple mat
ter. II In the hands OF capable public
OFFICIALS as II now Is We also called
attention 20 the fact that the prompt
removal and disposal every day OF a
mass OF approximately two hundred
and seventy i've tons OF decomposinx
animal and vegetable matter. was a
very serious problem-one which has
porpleNed, and, In many cases. baffied
the best sanitary engineers in the
country. Also TO the fact which Is
not so well known 10 the general
public. that this city has the most
reliable. and. therefore. the best sys-
TEN OF garbage disposal OF any city
in the United states, In the existing
arrangement with the Detroit Reduc
ton company, whereby all garbage
collected by the City. Is received by
that Company At the foot of Twenty
fourth street removed In care to a
plant twenty miles, away. and
disposed Of without one dollar OF ex.
attention. to the fac, that the CITY
government was then contemplating
at an expense OF approximately half
million dollars the construction OF
q plant for the disposal OF the gar
be referred TO your
Committee, which was done. and re-
quested a hearing before your Com
mittee in the hope OF convincing YOU
city, OF saving 10 the taxpayers. the
expenditure OF this large sum OF
money for the purpose mentioned.
At a hearing had recently before
the Committee on Health and city
Hospitals. We were requested to sub
nit short term proposition. and In
ciude an option 10 purchase TO your
Honorable Body with reference To the
disposition OF garbage at the expira-
tion OF our contract a. above noted
In compliance herewith We make
the following proposition:
I. We Will extend our contract at
its expiration June Soth. 1915. for a
term OF Ave years, the city to de-
Landing. Wayne County. Michigan.
:. We viii give 10 the CITY OF
Detroit an option for the purchase OF
our plant ar French Landing. Wayne
abstracts blue prints. and all neces-
sary papers therefor for the sum OF
one Hundred Seventy Ave Thousand
tsl75. O0Oool Dollars plus all improve
August LIST, 1915. This option TO be
exercised at any time after one year
from July 1915 and We TO deduct from
the above option price nve per cent
t5 per cent? for depreciation per
annum on the equipment from and
g. II the City OF Detroit enters in
10 a contract with US under the terms
and conditions OF this proposal. and
does not exercise the option contained
in part No. within the Ave year
period therein stated. then. and In
such case. contract with the Reduc-
tion Company issto be automatically
extended for i've year. longer, WIN
Company will receive all garbage Z.
o. b. Detroit during the last i've year
period
The City OF Detroit TO have the
right at any time 10 accept the prop
osition TO deliver garbage TO the Re-
duction Company T. o. b. Detroit for
a period OF ten years. and relinQuish
the purchase provision as set forth In
part No. 2.
We will furnish all contracts and
necessary papers TO carry out any
one OF the provisions herein con-
tanned. al the option of the Common
Council and the Mayor OF the city
OF Detroit.
Very respectfully submitted.
DETROIT REDUCTION COMPANY,
Per ALEX ]. Mcleod.
President