The daily Alaskan., 1921-02-12
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 other tax payers are interested. It did not seek to have the water ques- | ton brought in but in as much as the Home Power company seems to be under the imprdssion that the town is making money out of its 'water rentals and irsisted that the pa-agrarh relative to the water be n-inted in it's reply the following cxplan'ation is made to show that the Home Power company is mtstak- en in its contention.
 Last fall; when the Home Power company made its new contract with the town; the Co. thought 1t Saw a chance to get the revenue paid to, the town by the Alaskan for watrr; which was $10. % Per month to. - small Pelton motors eitr e directly by increasing the year | 1. rat, to the. city or by forcing the Alaskan to use power from the company.
 A.Jer many conferences with
 fIou.e Power Company the town council agreed to pay $25.OO Per month additional for the five win ter mcnths or q total of S125. % year. The council then increased tie rate to the Alaskan $500 ?" month or $6O.OO a year. ri puts the Alaskan's water service at s1SO.OO Der var; of which the Hcme Power company gets $125 % Ilsavug $55.OO per year for the town !n payment for water power. Thir agreement was arrived at Rt- ter the council had conferred with ihn Alaskan and learned that the 1 Alaskan was willing to pay an addi- tionql $G0. co Per yeGr. The council decided that the receipt of $55.OO net per year from the Alaskan was better investment than compelling it to taEc electric service from the Home Power Co. from which no revenue would acrue to tho town. The Alaskan pays in addition to thty ,Gm $&6.O0 Per Year for wa ter in the Alaskan building for other rurposrs.
 Thc company in making it's claim | fer the iucrd8srd water rate made the srocious ploa of fear of wat CT shortage when 1t Is a positive fact tla. with the two small Pel- ! ton morors running on an aggregate average cG houp Per day six days in the week will consume. les
 water than will the large Pelton wheel at the power plant in one twenty-four hour working day.
 Notv lhstandinz the ilca that thera might ba a shortage of wat CT; 1t is also well known fact that when the town had much larger population than 1t now has or for four or five years past there has been no necassity for go- ing on steam as there has been at all times an ample water supply for all purposes.
 The Home Power company wish infer to the taxpayers that the town Is making Q revenue from It's wat CT system, and therefore inherent ially that the Home Power company should get more for turning the water into the cityb mains. By selecting its figures and leaving out many assentals the company tries to make out a good cese; but does it? Why did the H. P Co. not use the figures of the past year?? Look at them and this question Is, answered.
 Extract from Town C'erE's h okS for pariod from Jauu.ry l, 1920 to Decam- Der 3I, l92H:
 Labor, mains and extensions Sl,5SL25 oil, gasoline and supplies 23S.35 New material, pipe, etc. 4l5.9O Salary of " inc Iestimated} l,2OO.0O Collection water rentals 70 pc. 3oO.0O Interest on &30,0OO at SD. c, 2,4O9.0O Home Powar Company l,5I5.00 Total Expense 7,749.SO
 Receip 2,99I93 COST OFFIItE uYDRANTS S4,75l.S7
 This is certainly some showing apajrst the alceertion mado by the