The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-08-10

Ilon ugure Is NZO-O prODaDi! more lHan
the value of the lots.
There were two bids for 600 feet of
submarine cable and the lowest Did,
one from Detroit for 5000, was accept
ed.
Plans for a lake intake, to cost ap-
proXimateIy $500, Georgenssn said,
were adopted and bids will be asked
for. 1t is not long intake for domes-
tic water. That will cost $4,000 or
or $4,000 when they get to it, if they
ever do. Even this small one may be
unnecessary if the new well supplies
enough condensing water.
To be in position to Judge the rela-
tive merits of producing electricity at
the new city plant nearing completion
aud buying all city current from the
Wisconsin Public Service Co. (High
Falls water power) the utilities com
mitlee was lately instructed to bring
in such data ana estimates as are OBJ
tainable on costs of production at the
city plant.
They reported at the council meet
ing this week.
The current can be produced cheap
er per unit if the amount sold is in
creased II would be produced cheap
est, Of course, if the plant could sell
its continuous capacity. -Four tables
were submitted the gist of which is
the following: Figuring the load (or
sales of the year ending July |, 1916,
which was ala, ,6J6 kilowatts Switch
board figures, not meter iigures) the
cost purchased from the High Falls
people ould be SlS,ll710 and the es-
timated cost of production at the local
plant is l5,77l.72.
B. If these figures are anywhere near the
facts the gentlemen who proposed that
the city shut down it's generating plant
and buy current for distribution and
build grand new high school with
the savings would wait for that high
school until the boys now in the kin.
dergarten have whiskers as luXuriant
as those of Father Time.
The committee made no recommen-
dations in regard to accepting or re-
iecting the offer Of the Wisconsin Pu-
blic Service Company. The matter
did not come up but it is expected that
unless these estimates can be success
fully challenged the Service Company
will have to scale down its proposed
rates to get any serious consideration
from the city council.
Poor during the month of July cost
the city S775,
The city attorney had on file a writ
ten opinion to the effect that it would
not he wise to assume that the city
has power to require underground SER
vice pipes to be laid on streets to be
graveed but that the remedy is to ask
for appropriate legislation at Madison
next winter if it is wanted,
Schuetze said that the board of pub
lie works did not insist on concrete be.
low the ties of the railway track in
paving Franklin street but that he is
going to get it on 18th street if he has
TO enjoin to do it. He said the specili-
cations calling for it were being follow
ed on the street car tracks on north
Sth street. The mayor told Bigel TO
look into it.
Georgenson said that the asphalt
surface being laid on north 8th street
is not ! inches thick rs required and
Bigel was told To look into that also.
Ben Herman offered to plank 10th
street bridge with rock elm for S66j
and McMullen and PITT win do it for
$G95 The former will get the job il
he guarantees to take not more than q
days.
Thorison said: There's a gentle
man back there who wants to address
the council'. The mayor asked what
about2n Thorison didn't know. II
was 1890 and warm and sticky and nc
one would stay any longer. On the
sidewalk outside the citizen aired his
complaints against neighboring So
loon which he says makes the nigh
! hideous with reyelry.