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Show GARBAGE COmCT ,' Commission May Act Fol- 1 lowing Alleged Scheme to Mulct the Citv. GREEN UPSETS PLAN Engineer Approves Commissioner's Commis-sioner's Figures Showing Excess Charges. i 'I'll? story of how the city .tonunissiou refuse dto pnter a ft-arbagfi disposal con-tract con-tract with Ihe .Mountain States Feeding Feed-ing company that unuld have sent many thousands of the city's dollars the way) of the garbage, according to tho rigures j of City Commissioner Herman H. Green, j ttss entirely uncovered yesterday as a result of The Tribune's publication of the fact of Commissioner Green's (lis-: closing the "joker" in the contract during a meeting of the commission in committee of the whole. So far from accepting the proposed contract, it is nov intimated that the commission may consider measures to break the present contract with M. L. Kill and Arthur Itctan, under which the garbage is going to the Mountain states Feeding company. This contract provides that the city shall deliver the garbage to certain loading stations, from, which the contractors take it away free of cost. Hill and Retail are a.mong the incorporators f the Mountain Moun-tain States Feeding company, which sought the newer contract which would provides that the company should gather ihe garbage at an initial yearly cost to the city of $."0,U00 and an increasing cost based on increase in production. The essential feature of Commissioner Creen 's computations was their showing that tho provision of the contract would result in an ever-increasiug per capita cost for garbage disposal with the increase in-crease of tiie city's population. With a 40 per cent increase in population, the total cost of disposal would amount to t, 107,000, or more than double. With a. ,'100'per cent increase, of population, or a total population of 4S0.000 people, the total cost would reach $482,000, which would represent more than double the initial per capita cost of less than 50 cents at which tho company proposed .to start. Dissect by Green. This feature of danger to the city lay, the commissioner showed, in the provision that for each increase of 2 per cent in population, an increased I I'bargo should be allowed the contract- iu'j company of 2 per cent for the first garbage district, 4 per cent for the ' wond, ( per cent for the third and S ,." f"1""" the i'-'urth, the garbage !i-l Yeing designated in accordance to I fiiith of haul to the proposed sILcl reduction plant northwest of the I Ml I Kerry admitted yesterday that 1'. 'l S'se, manager of the Mountain Ht.'it'l i'oding company, is his nephew, lie ;:l hat ho had announced this fact reben If company's proposed contract was uor consideration at a conference of the company's attorney with the city health co'innissioner, the city attorney and himself, and had said that he would lie e.'i lulled from voting on it should it ever' come..' lief ore the commission. He said t list... lb-. ('. .1. Albaugh, oity "health i-nmmissiuner. had objected to the price M-lu'.liiie of the contract, but had approved ap-proved it from the standpoint of sani-tarv sani-tarv measures. Discussion of the price M'hedolo was the purpose of bringing Ihe contract nn for discussion in the committee of the whole meeting of the commission, the mayor explained. The figurrs of ( oniiniss'ioner (irenn proved so"st;:rtline that the demand for revision of the contract before it could be con-Mileri"M con-Mileri"M at al! was unanimous, the mayor said.. Mayor-Makes Admission. The ivitial yearly cost of $.",11,(1110, provided in- in, contract, was based, the mayor explained, upon the estimate of the health depart nient of the cost to the city next year should it continue hauling the garbage. Tho advantage to Ihe ,-ity in having the. hauling cou- tractod, he said, would be in improved sanitary results ami the taking care of earba;e from the business districts, not now handled by the city, but by private, pri-vate, persons, to the cost of the business houses in some instances. Mayor Ferry admitted that Ihe "Mountain "Moun-tain States .Feeding company has office nmi in his office suite, nOS Utah Saving Sav-ing & Trust building, .but qualified the admission with the statement that thoy pn y rent- for it. Since the garhn contract ured by the Mountain Slates Feeding com pa in had been impendine over the commission commis-sion for consideration fur some week- past , the ot hrr com m issi oners appeared rather relieved at the quick disposition of - it ri'suUinir from Commissioner C rcen s computations. ' haven't anything to sav about it, only that I know how would vote if the contract tdiouhl come up for a vote' in anything like its present form,"' syjd Commissioner flehcr ' M. Wells. "I had intended to vote against the rnn t met: from t he first, as Wing; t he only action cousi.-t cnt with the programme pro-gramme of economy that the oity must I practice during these war times'' said Commissioner Karl A. .Sdieid, ''but the) convincing quality of "onnnNsiouer j C rcen 's argument i n figures mad'1 fur- i ther reason ing a waste of time.' ; May Submit New Contract. j The Mountain States Feeding com-,1 p.-mv. it. is understood, will submit a revised contract calculated to meet the obiertions raised to the one offered. But it is doubtful if serious consideration considera-tion can be gained for a i-nntraet that, will take out of the eit v 's hands t h'1 ! chance of economizing in its cost of ! uarl-ag'1 handling as well as in other; taints next year. - 1 At the time ef the presentation of j the disastrous figures by Commissioner-.Creeu, Commissioner-.Creeu, incredulity as to their accuracy ; Vvas expressed by the representatives f the company. Another set of fig-i Ves furnished Mayor Ferry by the! Arinariy 's represents fives wet e urged he correct ones. They did not show startling increase uf cost to the y i h the progress of population, oubts at rest. City Kugineer j Cannon vvas called in to; gures 'submitted by ( 'om- ! 'In a few minutes ho |
