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Show T , r:r;::r C-.lt L"':; U-wm i-f ia-Va- .".I: :':n Ti:.::t if Allowed To. , ,'; ; . Fifty-cent fuel and one-dollar illuminating illumi-nating Eas is- promised, to this city If the City Council will grant a franchise fran-chise to Georre A. Snow, a one-time resident of7 Salt Lake City, and William Wil-liam Darst of Chicago. A franchise for the use of the city's streets and alleys for the laying of mains and service pipes was Introduced In the City Council Coun-cil last night. Councilman A. F. Barnes of the Third ward was Its sponsor; it was read for the first time and referred to the Committees on Laws,' Btreets and Engineering. . . Bhould the franchise be granted the prices named above would not follow, at once; at the Inception 85 cents f"r fuel, with a 10-cent rebate for cash, an I Jl.Sa for the illuminating fluid, with a cash rebate of 10 cents, would rule. This will mean 75-cent and 11.23 gas as against $1.26 and'fl.75V4 gas, the prices now exacted by the Utah Light and Railway company. - Fifty Year tha Term. - . '. i The franchise asks for fifty years' use of the streets and alleys; names the prices above - mentioned, with the 10-cent 10-cent rebate on aft. bills paid before the 10th of the next succeeding months work to be commenced six months after trrantlng franchiser twenty miles of Pipe. to be laid within two years and ten miles during tlie two next ensuing years. The-franchise . stipulates that the city shall receive, no percentage of the company's receipts during the first two years of Its existence; during the next five years the city to receive 1 per cent of the gross receipts; the next five years 1 per cent; the next Ave. 14 per cent; the next five, l, and the remainder re-mainder of the life of the franchise 2 per. cent. . - The new company assumes all rei sponslblltty foK Injuries to persons received re-ceived while the construction work Is being done; a bond for $10,000 is offered to insure faithful performance of th work. .--'..... r.'.., . i Plant to Cost $3,000,000. The plans of, the promoters contem plate the expenditure .of $1,500,000 at once, with an ultimate expenditure - of $3,000,000. "When the business is firmly established." said the promoters last night, "and the people have seen the advantage and economy of gas. thus enabling us to do an extensive business, the prices will be reduced from. the maximum named in our application to the $1.00 and 60-cent basis." It is expected ex-pected to introduce the custom of cook ing with gas. as in Chicago. Denver, 8an Francisco and other cities; to introduce in-troduce Instantaneous water heaters and all the other up-to-date methods and labor-saving dust and soot-avold ing devices now in vogue In modern cities. It is confidently expected that very soon light and easily operated gas coking stoves will supplant , the heavy, hot. sooty coal ranges of the city, with their attendant - suffocating heat of summer. ( Mr. Snow has been working on tha proposition In the city with a corps of l engineers for some time . and understands under-stands the situation fully. William Darst, Mr. Snow's associate, is now at the Kenyon with his wife and son and should the franchise be granted they I will make Salt Lake' City their homa |