The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-07-10

tive at $3,524,) it would also reap
large benefit by being able to make
better contract for it's street light
ing and city pumping. I am assum
ing, judging from the price, that your
city has never changed any part of
its street lighting system or price. If
such is the case and by having the
street lights changed and a new
modern street lighting system put in,
you can safely count on securing more
light than you now have for less than
$1,800.00, making a saving of say
100000 on your street lighting.
On the question of city pumping,
your bill run last year $3,700.00. A
large saving can be perfected in this
item and conservative estimate is
100000. If a standpipe is put in l
feel safe in saying that the saving
void be much more than this sum.
No money can be saved the patrons
of your city on lighting but the same
lighting rate could be continued.
liberal saving, however, can be made
to all users of power which should
result in large sum, particularly if
YOUR city would ever get new manu-
featuring plants.
Aside from saving practically 3d.
100000 year on pumping and light
ing, your city would receive from $500
to 100000 in taxes, year, from a
private corporation, which means a
difference in your treasury of $4,000
which is to be added to your operating
oss of $3,500.00, which will show that
| your city is actually running behind
$500 a year under its present
management. / know these figures
are approximately correct and time
will prove them to be more than
absolutely correct, and aside from the
| question of depreciation, you will
| find the maintenance on your engines
and other machinery much heavier in
the future than they have been in the
past. Your maintenance of these en-
gines for the past year is extremely
small, only S22626. You cannot hope
to get through, judging from my ex-
perience, at less than $4,000 year
| under the most favorable conditions.
1t is true oil will cost you less
money but even then your freight is
the same, your labor will cost you as
much or more, and the saving in the
oil will only prove small item.
Again, if we owned your property
Sank Centre would be well lighted and
| would compare favorably with other
| cities of its size throughout Mime
! sofa, while, up to the present time,
your city HAS NEVER BEEN PROP
ERLY LIGHTED to my personal
knowledge, so to speak.
In regard to the wholesale propo-
sition, as | have advised you and the
rest of your city officials, our figures
are much lower than that of the Lit
tie Falls Water Power Company, and
Il you want to consider the opening
of the switch, which is wholly Inn
practical from every standpoint, from
/ five o'clock until nine during the
short days, we will make you special
| figures for that consideration. This
proposition Of opening switch IS
absolutely unknown to electric COM
oanies for this period and originated
! in the fertile mind of Mr.. Bailey, as
1 yell as the supposed proposition OF
.,,tting out your electric cooking dur
ing that period. If your electric cook
ing circuits were cut out where would
your lights come from
i Again, there is no comparison E'e-
] tween their proposition and ours for
the reason we will agree to put your
! city onto a loop system, and aside
i from that, we have 1884 H. T. In re-
serve steam power and $50 II. 2. IN a
Diesel oil engine.
q If we bought your plant we would
absolutely overhaul your complete dis
tributing system and make it as good
as new. install new street lighting
system, if desired, put in white
WAY System" and with your white
!, Way System" in complete, unless you
put in too much, your street lights
: would not cost but a very little more
than what you are paying for tilen
! to-day and your city would be wei
! ard properly lighted,
r Referring further to the wholesale
E proposition. / cannot tell you wha
your current is costing at this tinls