Show more figures pertaining to the city electric light plant enst week an article appeared in your colu columns without signature purporting purporting to rive give facts and figures on the earnings of tile tho city electric light plant which did not look to be correct to me and which were without douht doubt misleading to the taxpayers tax of beaver at large therefore I 1 checked up front from the annual financial report as published in your paper anti and find that the receipts for 1926 front from the plant was gross uncollected leaving abnot collection of from electric supplies sold 2350 2380 making total receipts disbursements for operation and maintenance paid tor for electrical supplies I 1 expended Expend ea for street lighting total disbursements I 1 showing total net earnings of 1 1 your anonymous correspondent corres shows allows in tits hia report a total not earn ing of 19 where it only shows show front from the annual report an earning of some differ differences encel yet ye in the face of even a small profit thi the city council levied and collected a i special tax of mills tor for 1926 for maintenance of electric plant and again this year 1927 a tax 0 ol 01 mills is levied for tho the same purpose seems to mo me that the levying of the tax shows allows of itself that there was a near deficiency since front from said tax for the tax made on the valuation of in looking back over the taxes I 1 find that in 1918 2 mills was levied tor for electric light plant in 1919 1920 1921 1922 and 1923 mills each year levied tor for the same purpose for 1924 25 no levy was made so since thero there is such a discrepancy in the figures tor for 1926 it seems to be worse than useless to discuss your correspondents figures tor for 1927 aa a 9 no doubt there are just as erron cons as those of 1926 and are entirely misleading to the taxpayers who always have to toot foot the bills lie ile also alao figures that a saving of each year Is made to the city front from the earnings of tho the plant let us its see we have street lamps of watts each and the whiteway which consumes about 7 kilowatt hours of power each hour of the time it runs this will figure up lip a total of about 39 KW per hour and the average time of lighting tor for tile the year Is 10 hours but lie he figures fugures for 24 hours houra and ot of course la Is again wrong since it it is going to be figured on a moneysaving money saving basis it must alsobr figured from a business basis as well no individual investor would burn lights for 24 hours each day while lie he only required 10 hours of lighting does anyone burn lights 24 hours ench each lay day in his own private house or business certainly not then on a 10 hour basis it figures about 39 KW hours tor for 10 hours at the power rate of ac KW w uld cut the cost per annum to 41 this would be logical since ithe the city has apparently more power than it requires and sells its surplus at 3 c to others both inside and out i side of the city and not at ac per KW as your correspondent states wo we to do not seem to have any material den demand ilind for house lighting these dan since in scanning over the city I 1 can only think of one new residence in 1927 anti and this with the legion pavilion nd a few auto camp houses constitute the only new customers for 1927 1 will n not ot dispute tits his statement that the use ise i of electricity will continue to grow in tile tho city but it looks that it will from a power standpoint chiefly and not front from a lighting point of view my aly object in this writing la is to show allow up the real facts and figures ao to the people of beaver so that they may bo be fully advised in the matter yours for more LIGHT WILLIAM HURST |