Show with fire insurance rates as high as they are in this city why it be a good idea to organize a local fire insurance company there is sufficient business written here to justify such a company mud and if the merchants and aud property owners could be paying their premiums to themselves the business would greatly increase the insurance houses already doing business here might cut their rates in order to get business but that need to make any difference to us we could carry our own insurance at any rate and beat them either present rates should be greatly reduced or else some action taken such as we have sug suggested ge sted |