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Show City Lighting, the Waterworks and Other Utilities I ..slr mud." n odcitc. "I f0, your city upturn system an.i i Itv it Will bC A success. While I am on a hi iutyec I direct your attention to letter reeelvcd this norning from !he ritv engineer of San Francisco. Il h ws the possibilities of city control of Tbc um vo,i krjon san Fran-p Fran-p h4S been poorly governM and III thapeat there Iih been graft, but read Ik Here Is the inter "Octobor 31 1019. City and County of San Francisco. .Department of Public Works. Bu- rcau of engineering your letter to Mayor Rolph of October 17H has been received. making Inquiry as to municipal railway rail-way conditions. "A brief history to date Is as follows. fol-lows. 1 5 500,000 bonds Issued, from which have been constructed 45 miles of Jrack. two concrete steel car barns. 168 large street cars built and 30 small cars purchased "From earnings In the past five years IS more miles of trackage have been added, there is about IJt-500.000 IJt-500.000 in our reserve and depreciation deprecia-tion fund we are depositing 18 per cent of our earnings in depreciation deprecia-tion fund for replacements. Some Of this money has been used for extensions' "I am en losing one of our typical annual r ports. Trusting this will give you the data you desire, I am. very truly yours, "II at. BHAUGHNB8SY, "City Engineer." Now. as to the llchtlnc system In I u-.in. Mr. Francis says BOm method must be found to place the management on a high plane, frc from petty Interference, Inter-ference, se that (he system will noc only bring to the city n revenue equal to thai derived from the waterworks, but many limes greater. |