Show why not organize mutual insurance co for eureka this paper believes that the time is ripe tor for the organization of a mu insurance company making it a purely local concern the object of which will be to give business men and other residents of our camp fire insurance at a price that is 1 some where near fair this matter is now being agitated by some of the best known business men and it appears that there is a chance of it being carried through successfully eureka property owners are being gouged by the insurance companies ot of the state there is no question about this everyone who has to spend money tor for fire insurance knows it only recently the board companies who have always insist ed upon high rates for this city sue ceedee in bringing the non board companies into their combine and now we are paying tor for this bit of foxy foy y finan ciering it appears that there Is but one way to get even with the insurance people who have inflicted these high rates upon us and that Is 1 for the bartness basl bast ness men to get together and form an organization in which they can handle their own insurance this will doubtless be done in the near future the insurance companies either have a wrong impression regarding local conditions or else they are try ing to pull oft off a daylight day light robbery with the property owners of our camp a aai the victims we are in dined to think that it Is the latter because representatives of the corn com bantes have repeatedly checked up on affairs here and the records in their offices will show that thit during the past twenty years it has not been necessary to pay a single large claim there isn t another city of like size in the whole state where fire losses have been so small as in I 1 eureka and just why we should be singled out tor for the high insurance rates Is not quite clear our excel excels lent water system well organized f fre re department and the fact that a large number of our business houses are built of brick and stone should entitle us to much lower insurance rates than those now being paid but Is appears that the organization of a home company Is the only way to bring about such reductions |