Arizona republican., 1915-09-01
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Statement by Trustees of Electrical District No. l, Replying to Arguments Which Have Been Made Against Bond Issue.

District No. l, by the trustees of the district, who will be called upon to vote tomorrow on a $100000 bond issue, for the construction of an cleo trical system. The statement is in
 reply to one printed in The Repub
 ican yesterday and to letter which has been issued to the voters:
 The Pacific Gas and Electric com
 pany is trying to get the same
 strangle hold" upon the farmers that
 it has upon the City of Phoenix.
 There will be mailed or delivered
 to each person living in the Elec
 trical District d lot of figures pur-
 porting to be estimates of the cost Of
 construction maintenance, etc, of the
 proposed farmers Electrical system
 every figure of which was compiled
 in the office of the Pacific Gas X
 Electric company. These figures will be signed by a committee of re- spectable men, whose names would carry weight six of whom are not on the tax roll for any property within the Electrical District. The ''competent electrical engineers" Ter ferred to are, or have been, all connected with the Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
 The Pacific Gas and Electric com pany admits privately that it had D miles too much transmission lines in it's estimates.
 The Pacific Gas and Electric com pany admits that it placed the depre- citation period at S years too short a time in it's estimates. The Pacific Gas and Electric com 1 pany admits that it counted the cost
 of meters at $7,50O too much in it's 1 estimates.
 Admits that all figures of income and expenditure is based on the op- ! eration of city plants, which cost much more to operate than farm 1 lines.
 l The Pacific Gas and Electric com- 1 pany admits that it used a minimum of income from every source and that it used a maximum of expendi-
 lures on every item of expense. 1 These admissions will enable you to place an accurate estimate upon 1 the remainder of the figures su0 | mitted to you by the committee of | respectable men, whose names would ] rarry weight"
 i It is the influence of the Pacific | Gas and Electric company and its ! money which has inspired this whole move against the putting in of this farmers Electric system. Will you | permit the Pacific Gas and Electric i Company to dictate to you what you shall do or will you, as free men, stand up and assert your rights i 10 conduct your affairs as you please without the dictation of this grasPing | corporation?
 The fact that this letter will be i signed by welI-known business men is a most clever attempt on the part of the Pacific Gas and Elec- tric company to conceal it's ''cloven 1 koof"
 The figures of the Pacific Gas and
 Electric company are based upon an 1 assumption of facts which do not exist
 You may be told that the Pacific 1 Gas and Electric company was re- 1 quested to supply these figures by | the committee" but the fact re-
 mains that the figures were all ready
 the moment that they were called | for"
 i The managers of the Pacific Gas | and Electric company, for weeks ! been trying to get the managers of | this farmers Electric System to | agree to some terms which would | betray the rights of the farmers. but | the trustees have refused every offer ! made by the Pacific Gas and Electric | company and that is why they are now sending you these figures and 1 raising this howl about nigh taxes,
 The figures furnished by the trus- ! tees of Electric District No. 1, have
 been worked out through months of
 careful study and can be relied upon;
 they were prepared in YOUR IN TEREST. The figures submitted to you by this committee, of respectable
 men, whose names would carry weight" are prepared by the Pacific Gas and Electric company for it's benefit.
 Which are you willing to rely upon?
 The manager of the Pacific Gas and Electric company was the first person known to suggest that the
 dear people should be told that there were errors in our estimates" and that the taxes of the people would be "very high" yet the manager does not live in the Electrical Dis trict and is not assessed with one
  It was not taxes, but the loss of an income at 10 cents per kWh.
 that is hitting the Pacific Gas and Electric company. They want to
 collect a double toll of the farmers, and make you build the lines, as
 they have done in all cases where
 lines are built in the country, will you let them do it? Isn't your bur den Of upkeep enough now?
 Ask yourselves when did the Pa cific Gas and Electric company ever do Good turn for any one but themselves?
 The statement "signed by respect able men, whose names will carry weight" will probably he accom- panied by letter or statement from an "Electrical Engineer of the Re clamation Service." who has always been opposed to the farmers having | the use of the electricity generated at the dam for any purpose. Watch | for it.
 The life of cedar poles agreed to | by the Pacific Gas and Electric com |