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8KAUWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1901!.
No. ii. ELEVENTH YEAR
Council Votes to Buy the Plant
Legal Advice to be Secured and Question :
Submitted to the People if it is Not
Contrary to Law. Mr. Peter Kern
has a Plan for an Aerial Tramway
to the Top of Mount Dewey.
Tntf couocil at Its meeting lest n.^ht
voted to ?cc pt the proposition of the
Homo Power company as printed here,
provided it should be found th><t the
city might legally takw over the plaut
after the taxpayers had voted favorably
?n the same. In other words an opin
ion of tome authority to be secured
and if ivshall appear thjt the city can
enter Into the obligation entailed in
the purchase of the plant, then the
matter is to be submitted to a vote ol
all taxpayers and if that is favorable
then the city will buy the water works
and light plant on the terms stated.
Mr. P. E. Kern also a-kea the couo
cil for the right to the use of so much
of th- e?st end of Dhlrd avenue as may
be tecessary to the installation of and
aerial tramway up the side of Mount
Dewey. This matter was refrred to
the committee on public works and
property. Mr. Kern explained that it
U :.<'s p-.'pose to .u.vall aou operate a
tramway through a system of wire
ropes from which cars are to be sus
pended. for the tmnsportat.ou of pas
senger* acd freight to and from the
upper lake. Much interest was mani
fested in Mr' Kern's pUns submitted
with his application. He explained
that what he wanttd on Third avenue
was anchorage for the cables and
station for the cars.
The meeting of 'he council was a
long ana meaty ?ne. A lot of tech
nical procedure was gone through
with touching the withdrawal of the
old proposition of the Home Power
com pan j by Mr. Harrison at the last
meeting. This was disposed of under
the bead of unfinished business, and at
once upon the call for new business Mr.
Snyder presented the new ptoi-ositlow'
Clark at once expressed a desire for
light on the question of legality.
Snyder said that was also the thing be
wanted to know.
Shaw said be had the law of tbe
matter and there was no sens* In tbe
running Are attending this Important
business in tbe face of this letter of tbe
law. He explained how Alaskan towns
are permitted to incur certain but lim
ited indebtedness? the limit being tbe
gum of the current revenue. This pro
vision made it impossible undur the
law, for the city of Skagway to take
upon Itself this heavy load. The cur
rent revenue of the town was terae
thing over (22,000 and tbe expense
$21, 5C0. If we assume this burden, he
said, It means that we must at once
assume another of $15,000 or from 125,
000 to #30,000 in all. He pointed out
that this proposition was more danger
ous than the other Inasmuch as, in tbe
case of failure, temporary or otber
wue, under a management controlUd
bv the selling company itself, the city
must lose the forks and the monies
paid. Then should the next council
repudiate the action of this 'council?
He thought it did not look well for
buyer and seller to be shaking baud*
wiiU each other over this council table,
however tbese gentlemen might be
actuated by tbe best motives. He said
be co sldered tbe transaction illegal
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no J any one could go into court and
stop it with an injunction. He said bo
would oppose It to tho bitter end.
Mayer Shea ca.' led upon Judge Tan
ner to explain the proposition from the
randpolat of ? stockholder and citizen.
In response Mr. Tanner said be oelieved
this proposition to be a good one for the
city. H4* said the revenue from lbs
light plant last month was $73s. The
revenues were equal to J10.000 a year
and might reach $12,000. He thought
the plant cou:<l pay for itself in possibly
one yeat and certainly thtee years. He
had talked to many and all save a very
few bolieved ft to be a good thing, All
the largest tax payeis were for It.
Mr. Shaw askod why, if the revenue
was so large, 'he old comntny could not
pay aoy of its running expenses ? labor,
wood or unythlog, '
Mr. Tanner said it was because the
money received was all sent away. The '
. policy of the old company, as everybody
kn^w, was to milk the people and pay
nothing.
Mr. Shaw said it looked, by descrip
tion, too (rood to sell
Mr. Snyder said the plant was offerod
to the city because It was pledged to do
so at toe time of the l*st election. He
t?s ready to go through with tho affair
as a private corporation if the city did
not want it.
Mr Shaw s?id the first thing to do
was to get an opinion as to the legality
?but the evident attempt here was to
railroad this through.
Mr. Snyder and Mayor Shea agreed to
this.
Mr. Harri.-on be'ng called on ex
pressed belief in the feasibility of the
enterprise. He said the gross incon e
of the plant at present was f9,300; the
running expenses 30,870.
This brought Mr. Shaw into the dls
cusnioa again, "Tbe running expenses
$9,870 ?nd the gross incomo $9,300. How
are you to pay for the plant out of :i
margin like that? what kind of financ
iering is this?" he exclaimed, "thought
you had a net revenue of $lo,00o?"
Mr. Harrison said the prices wou'd
not remain the same and the revenue
would be increased.
"But that is figuring like Col. Sel
lers" Slid Shaw.
Snyder called a halt on tbo discussion
by declaring that it was to no purpose,
until it was known if the deal could b;
legally entered in o.
Nye moved advice be secured and if
legal then to submit the matter to th
tux payers and abide by the result.
Ashiev said no report of any commit
1 been received as t-j whether
rtbeve was a plaut there at all or not.
f /he vote vras taken on Nye's motion
an-1 Clark, Nye, Snyder and Shea voted
for. and Ashley, Shaw and Taylor
against.
The matter of securing a legal opin
ion ?o k'uide the council wua left to the
committee on judiciary and election
Messrs Ashley, Shaw and Snyder.
They will report next meeting..
THIS SOUNDS Li BUSINESS
(Unltji Pr??s Telegraph-Cabls Service.)
Seattle, April 29 ? The announcement is made that the
Guggenheim* will operate boats on the Copper river in
bringing out the ore from the Bonauza mines. The steamers
will be built here and taken north in knock down ahape.
According to S. VV. Eccles, now in Seattle in attendance
upon the meeting of the Guggenheim^ allied lines, the Cor
dova branch will be completed uext year, Hawkins has re
turned and is sending men to the north by hundreds.
The Interest, shown in the bowling
ca. testttt the E>gles' box raoo alley
hat bten verv keen. Some high icorci
have been made bv those who hart
completed the series of games. Inas
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A PROPOSIIIOHiE IB IDE CITY
The proposition as made to the city, signed by P. E.
Kern, L. A. Harrison, and H. id. Draper, committee, pro
perly addressed, is .as follows:
1st. We will sell to the Town of Skagway, all of the
properties of the Home Power Co.', consisting of the Elect
ric Lighting plant and water plant, for the sum of $15,676.
85., on the following terms and under certain conditions
payable to wit:
$5000.00 payable on the 1st day of September, 1908.
$5000.00 payable on the 1st day of September, 1909,
$5676.85 payable on the 1st day of September, 1910,
with interest at eight per centum per annum from date of
transfer.
"2nd. Should default be made in the payment of the
principal or of the interest as agree upon, then the property
snail revert back to the Home Power Co., with all of the
payments as liquidated damages."
The third article stipulates that the plants shall be
operated by a committee of 5, of which 3 shall be appointed
by the company and 2 by the council until the plant is paid
for. ;
Accompanying this is an itemized statement of the cost
of the plant, $15,368.00 having been paid the Northwest
Light & Power company and for the water right at Lake
Dewey, attorney fees etc.. '$308,85 a total of $15,676.85.
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Seattle. April Bishop Rowe lectured iu the Epis
copal church here last night on Alaskan conditions in which
he charged the national government with shameful neglect
of Alaska and especially, the Indian wards of the govern
ment. lie pays the government is responsible for the moral
and physical decay of the natives, lie says the authorities
merit the severest censure.
Owing to the fact that the Elks' May
dat.ce will be given on Friday, May 1st,
the Kagles have postponed their bi
monthly dince to Tuesday, May ">th.
P. EI. Ganty returned from Seattle
oa the Princess May.
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o'clock last nisJit.
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