The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-08

confessed she shot Kessler, then service, but what it would cost the city to duplicate and maintain it.
 Company May Retract
 Should the Council propose to ask the company to surrender it's rights under the contract, they in turn must offer to surrender the city's rights under the same con- tract. This the Council could not afford to do, for it would involve the abandonment of what is now generally referred to as the city's salt water system, to say nothing about the other rights under the contract. The installation of this system was immediately followed by a reduction in insurance rates; its abandonment would immediate ly be followed by an advance in insurance rates The amount which the taxpayers save on insurance premiums, is many times as great as the amount which the city could possibly collect from the AL aska Juneau in taxes. Would it not be folly to relieve the tax payers of portion of their tax burden; and by the same act, to place upon them an insurance bur den of far greater proportions? And what City Council would assume the responsibility of deliberately subjecting the City to this in creased and unnecessary fire haz- ard?
 At the time the agreement was made it was becoming evident that something more substantial than the piling and plank streets, then in use, would be necessary to carry fire engines and take care of auto mobile traffic which was rapidly developing. It was apparent to the City Council that the filling of the streets was imperative. Where to obtain cheaply, the necessary material for filling was soon to be a matter of importance to the city.
 Neel Fill Material
 Without this agreement, and had the mill been built outside the city limits, but still within rea- sonable hauling distance of the city, the city might have been able to make some arrangement with the company to furnish tailings for filing the streets. With the mill outside the city limits, and no obligations on the part of the company in the way of an agree ment, it is hardly probable that company, as hard pressed for money as was the Alaska Juneau for many years, would have sup piled these tailings for filling with out charge.
 If the tailings had been sold to the city even at figure one fourth the cost of quarrying, crush ing, and loading, very substantial cash income would have been de- rived by the company.
 Tn addition to furnishing tail lngs, including the upkeep of bunk CTS. free of charge to the city, this service has been extended to any and all property owners who de- sired to fill their lots. Many own CTS have availed themselves of the use of tailings for filling and many lots have been filled, materially lessening the fire risk in the town as a whole.
 Breakwater Given
 Ine dumping of tailings into Iastlneau Channel has created a nreakwater that furnishes protec- ton to the whole waterfront and creates a small boat harbor in front of the property of the con- pany. If the mill were farther out and the breakwater farther from Juneau, it would not afford the protection it now does.
 The city has been given a lease With nominal rental f$10.0O per annum) on sufficient ground for the construction of a road, to make floats in this harbor accessible to the public. This road and the floats are a matter of considerable inconvenience to the company but these concessions have been grant ed in spirit of cooperation.
 These services alone, instead of being 'meagre considerations were services which were at the time of the agreement, and would have been ever since, SO costly as to have been unobtainable by the city.
 Indirect Tax Shown
 The implication, that the amount paid by the company as city taxes is the only tax money paid by the company from which the city de- riVeS benefit is ant Tn lad to o