Show FOR LIGHT PLANT L J S Manley and L if H Curtis Say They Will Build One in Salt Lake HAVE A AGRANT GRANT FOR HE HEAT T OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE I CITY COUNCIL J J S Manley and L H Curtis who secured a steam heating franchise from the city council councH some months ago ap applied applied plied to the council last night for an electric light franchise The franchise applied for If granted wIll run for fifty ft years After three years the applicants pro propose propose pose to pay to the city a revenue of 1 per cent a year on the gross revenues for the first ten years 1 per cent a year for the next nen t ten n years and 2 per percent percent cent a year for the remainder of the life of the franchise Proposed Rates On the subject of rates the franchise contains the following provisions For s service not to exceed 10 per lamp per month for midnIght servIce not to exceed per lamp per month and for 10 p m service by meter a rate of 11 cents per kilowatt hour for the electric energy used and anda a charge of 1 per arc lamp per month In addition thereto for the care and maintenance of the lamp b Incandescent lighting For standard efficiency of from 3 3 to 36 6 watt per candle power for Incandescent lamps a meter rate of 10 cents per kilo kilowatt kilowatt watt hour for the electrIcal energy used provided that the mInimum charge shall be 75 cents per month for tor each consumer of electric energy for Incandescent lighting Uc c Meter Rates For electrical en energy energy ergy to be used for motive power pUr pUrposes purposes poses a maxImum meter rate of S 8 Scents cents per thousand watts provided that the maximum charge for electrical en energy energy ergy used for motive power shall shaH be 3 per month for each consumer of electrIcal energy for motive power A discount Is to be provided for cus customers customers who pay before the of the month The company offers to put up upa a bond for carrying out Its contract in inthe Inthe the event the franchise Is granted L H Curtis one of the promoters of the scheme In a statement made last night declared that the capital Is ready to build the plant It is financed he says by W H Schott a Chicago en engineer engineer The name of the company will willbe willbe be the Salt Lake Public Service Cor Corporation The council referred the ap application application to the committee on municipal laws Rio Grande Grand Accepts The Rio Grande Western Railroad company notified the council last even evenIng evening Ing that It had accepted the franchise recently granted It In connection with Its new terminals A petition of A Cartright and others that the company be required to construct a vIaduct across its tracks on Second South from Fifth to Sixth West streets was referred to the committee on municipal laws The board of public works submitted to the council an ordinance requiring the use of wide tires In the city The time when the ordinance shall go into effect was left blank The street corn com committee will wrestle with the problem The board recommended the accept acceptance acceptance ance of the bid of the Utah Foundry Machine company of 85 cents p linear foot for replacing gutter plates on First Second and Third South streets and the recommendation was concurred In Baer Bros wholesale liquor dealers petitioned that the annual wholesale Ii H cense fee be reduced from 1000 to Referred to the license committee Street Commissioner was au authorized to buy a new grader to cost 25 I Contractors Must Be Good CommIssioner Raleigh complained to the councIl that P P Ford sewer con contractor contractor tractor persistently fails and refuses to fill fiU up trenches after he completes work The board works was instructed to compel him by any legal means to do so Councilman Black Introduced a reso resolution lution requiring the board of public works to refuse hereafter to award any contract to a contractor who has de defaulted defaulted faulted or been negligent In his work The resolution which is regarded as a scheme to give Contractor p J Moran an absolute monopoly of city work was referred to the engineering corn com commIttee of which Mr Black Is chairman Fire Chief C T Vail was authorized to spend for tires for the engine and to buy a carload of oats at per hundredweight Assistant City Attorney H J Dinin ny fly notified the council that the bonds bondsmen bondsmen men of the gas franchIse holders had agreed to be bound by the terms of the amended franchise recent recently ly passed |