Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-13
COUNCIL CALLS SPECIAL ELEc.
TON FOR OCTOBER is ON
PROPOSAL TO SELL.
PUBLIC UTILITIES OFFERS
$4,000 FOR CITY SYSTEM
Question at Election Will Be Whether
City Shall Sell Its Street Lighting
System to the Iowa Railway & Light
ComPany-lf Sold, City Will Buy
Light.

Whether the city will sell it's NUM-
cipal street lighting plant to the Iowa
Railway & Light Co. and buy electric
ity for street lights from the public
utilities company is to be determined
as a result of special election to be
held Oct. Is. At a meeting of the
council, held this forenoon the council
called special election for that date
at which the question of selling the
municipal lighting plant will be sub
| mitted to the voters. The date of the
election IS the same day as has been
| fixed for the state election on the con-
stitutional prohibitory amendment.
The question is to be submitted TO
the voters is whether or not the city
| shall sell its municipal electric arc
| lighting system (Which does not in
| clude the electroliers) to the Iowa Rail-
| way & Light Company for $4,000. The
question of sale only is to be determin
ed by the voters. Contingent upon
the voters authorizing the sale, the
council has agreed on terms for the
purchase of light from the public uti-
lities company.
Terms Of the Sale.
The lighting system included in the
sale consists Of the generator, engine
and switchboard at the pumping sta
ton. and the poles, wires and arc
lights Of the street lighting system. 1t
does not include the electroliers al
ready in the streets, or the wires serv-
ing them, which are retained by the
city. The terms OF payment for the
property are $1,000 a year for three
years.
General Terms Of Contract.
The general terms OF the contract
agreed 10 by the city and Iowa Rail-
way & Light Company which Is de-
pendent upon the authorization for the
sale OF the plant. are in general that
the Iowa Railway & Light Company
will at once take over the lighting
system and rehabilitate It, supplying
electricity from its central plant in the
depot district. It will discard the old
arc lighcs and substitute at street in
tersections either $50 or 100 candle
power in candescent lamps. In fact, the
whole system is to be a modern in
candescent system.
The rates agreed upon for the cleo
tricity are:
For each $50 candle power lamp, s32
per year
For each 100 candle power lamp. s22
per year.
For each 60 candle power lamp post
s14.O0 per year.
For each electrolier Of five 60 can
die power $3.50 per year.
For single 60 candle power lamps
s12 per year.
Contract for Ten Years.
The term of the contract is to be
for ten years with this condition that
at the end OF two years there is to be
an adjustment Of the rates based only
on the cost OF coal and labor, as COM
pared with the cost Of these items at
the time the contract is entered into.
At the end OF nine years the terms for
the renewal of the contract are to be
stipulated with city having the pri-
viege OF purchasing the lighting sys-
TEN at price to be agreed upon.
A comparison Of the prices now paid
for the same lights and those in the
proposed contract are as follows. as
far as It Is possible to give COMPARE
sons:
The city is now paying the Iowa Rail
way & Light Company s27 a year for
five light 60 candle power lamp electro
Tiers. such as are in Main street and
Third avenue. The proposed rate is
$3.50. These lights are the largest
single item for electricity now purchas-
ed.
The present rate paid for single pole
so candle power lamps such as are at
Denmead Bros addition and West
Main street between Second and Third
streets, is IS year but the city main
! :.::.:1 80 C4u ipmIeui. Inc proposed
rate is s14 a year per lamp for these
fourteen lamps.
For the single so candle power lamps
such as are in alley intersections in
the business district, the city Is now