Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-11-03

deer, male or female, and one male
moose. Every hunter of big game
must have license.
ABOUT THREE7cENr LIGHTS
st. Paul Daily News: Some time
ago the Daily News printed an ar
ticle about the municipal electric
light and power plant at Winnipeg,
Man. It told of the high prices be-
fore the municipal plant was in oper-
alton, and of the three-cents-pe
wattJhour prices now charged.
Recently the editor has received a
few letters, obviously from experts
employed by private companies, pick
ing flaws in that report. One expert
said: 1T may be possible to find a
municipal light and power plant here
and there that reduces prices, but you
can't find many of them"
"They may do that in Winnipeg"
said another, where they have wat
er power near at hand, but how about
1T when the power must be generated
by steam?'' - -.
Both of these questions are now an
swered by no less an authority than
K. L. Aitken, chief engineer in the
construction of the distributing mu-
nicipaa light and power plant of Tor
onto, Ont. He was for several years
general manager Of that plant.
"Electricity in Ontario-that is, in
so cities in the province, including
Toronto virtually as free as water.
That's what will happen in any city
when the price of current is placed
where it belongs.
sEQof0no tho ncRo h1{nhnn ~ ho
municipal plant, Toronto, with a
population of 100000, used electric
current to the amount OF $4,000 horse
power a day. Now, although Toronto's
population is less than 500, 900 It uses
every day $4,000 horsepower.
AS soon as the municipal plant was
in operation at Scent rate, the pri-
vately owned plant reduced it's rate
from 8 to 3 cents.
"The idea of a private plant is to
make a large profit from a relatively
small business. The idea of a NUM-
cipally owned plant Is to make small
profit-if any-from a relatively large
business. That has been accomplish
ed in about so cities and towns insOn-
tario.
1.-The house fighting rate in Tor
onto is what we call 'diferentiar
rate. It averages 3 cents kilowatt
hQpr. Il is 80 computed that domestic
consumers, after certain nominal
amount OF current has been used, are
charged only oqe-haH cent kilowatt
hour. The result is that almost every
home In Toronto now constantly U.S.
es electric fatirons and cookers and
other domestic contrivances, at a
cost for current so low
las to be almost negligible.
The power rates are computed on the
same principle. Electric current is
now the most popular thing in Tor
onto.
ALTHOUGH the current is obtained
from a power plant at Niagara Falls,
80 miles from Toronto, the cost to the
municipal plant 3s virtually the same
as If it manufactured current with
steam, because of loss OF transmits
sion and drawbacks inseparable from
water power production at distance
Toronto and most of the other so
Ontario cities and towns are planning
the construction of auxiliary plants
for the production of electricity by
steam.
The municipal undertaking had a
hard time of it at the start. No sooner
had it begun operations than it was
subjected to every kind of attack
mostly by devious, underground, but
hara ssing methods instigated and d.
rected by the interests af6liated with
the privately owned plant. Suits were
brought against the municipal plant in
such numbers and in such manner
that finally the Dominion government
itself took q hand and enacted law
making it impossible for q suit to be
brought against municipality owned
utility without first obtaining the per-
mission OF the attorney general"
HIGH TO PRESENT "THE ARRIv-
AL OF KITTY
On Friday, December l, the high
school will present the play, "The
Arrival; Of Kitty, a comedy drama
which is said to be very good.
Following is the cast Of characters
for the play: