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1 THE ANSWER . ^ • 4 M > Committees sent by the mayor and board of commissioners to towns and cities which use Carolina Power and Light Company service found the service to be satisfactory in -*,> way and to have the additional advantage of being much more economical than 1 PVen by the town of Duiui. These committees were sent to gather information wtimi might be of value to citizens who will be called upon to ratify or reject a contract :5 made with the company through which it agrees to buy the municipal plant here and furnish service from its own plants. The company will pay $45,000 for the plant, this : \ su mto be used in retiring bonds voted for the plant's construction. Reports from the several committees, addressed to Mayor J. Loyd Wade, are as fol lows: u r U The question is answered I in the following reports I submitted by commit- I , tees to the -Mayor and I the Board of Commis- I sioners. I At the request of one of the commissioners of the town of Dunn, a committee com posed of the undersigned visited Henderson and Oxford on ^Vednesday, November 30, i £ w^a-ewof ascertaining, whether or not the services rendered by the Carolina Power i £ ■“O j-ight Company proves satisfactory to the citizens of those towns. ; £ ' we visited Henderson where we called on the owners of the Drug Stores, ! I guiles, Dry Goods Stores, Cotton Mills, the Police, Doctors and other citizens. We in quired particularly concerning the services rendered, the treatment accorded by the em- ; £ Pf^ee* of the Carolina Power and Light Company and whether or not the service and ' I rates charged them were satisfactory. t. Withmit exception, we were told that the service was excellent, that the treatment Recorded them was all they could ask and that the rates were lower than they had been able to obtain from any system used prior to the advent of the Carolina Power and Light ; Company. They also assured us that the current was much better and steadier than that from any service they had had in the past, and that when the power was interrupted £ IK any cause that the officials of the company did all they could to restore the power at earliest posable moment. As a result of this interest displayed by the officials, we ; £ ***Ured it was a very rare occurrence for the current to be off for more than a few minutes at a time. X". At"Oxford we were informed that the services rendered by the Carolina Power & yght Company there was equally as satisfactory as at Henderson. The citizens inter- S JfeTk ^ere not only highly satisfied but took occasion to speak of the cordial relations £ *5etwecn th* Carolina Power and Light Company and its patrons. 5 '■ Whuewe were obtaining this general information we, at the same time, made com <1*on* between the cost of current furnished by the company in Henderson and Ox- ! 5 LJ *nd that furnished by the Dunn Munici pal plant. I S&Y'® found that owing to the sliding seal e of rates that the lights in Henderson and Wjford cost the consumers approximately h alf as much as current is now costing the peo- ! 5 ‘ Dunn. As an illustration of this one drug store in Henderson which used, the ; , kilowatts as did Hood and Grantham in their store during the month ^5gf5£“ober, hadto pay $9.38 as compared "With $20.85paid by Hofafhftnd Grantham, *v ? Wr We understand that the schedule of rates charged for current By the Carolina Pow ? v#fc®ud Light Comoanv is retrulated hv NIorth Oarol!n» Cnmnmfmn P--—--J Pinnot charge the citizens of Dunn a higher rate than that charged in the other j which it operates. This being true and the fact that the towns now being served ! ompany are so well pleased with the service they are getting, it is our opinion :itizens of Dunn would make no mistake in voting to sell the local plant to the ; Power and Light Company and in so ding secure a cheaper, steadier, and ! i*factory service. Yours very truly, ; OOD, GEO, L. CANNADY. E. P.DAVIS, J. T. GUY, Committee.- j 1 visited die city of Goldsboro to investigate the service rendered the citizenship , Carolina Power and Light Company. We called on the mayor, commissioners, frommoit merchants and the manufacturing industries and superintendent of the water • department and we are glad to report that they spoke in the highest terms of tsj*® •erviee rendered and that their rate, upon investigation, was about one half of what <T® consumers in Dunn pay They have service all the time and spoke in the highest ms of the service rendered them by the Carolina Power and Light Company and that «was tar superior to when conducted under their municipal ownership. We do not hesi Vto say that you have made a good trade with the Carolina Power and Light Com $5? da d of*Dtecem^rV°ter* l° yOUr act*°n voting for salc of our pW on the Yours truly, iAS. A. TAYLOR, McD. HOLLIDAY. O. P. SHELL. G. K. GRANTHAM. Com " f - “rs- n ■—i i_D.uj. . ... . ' . '—:—::— ■ — w Dy one or your commissioner*, **“ •f,?Ce render«£. ^ «*“«• of Raleigh by the Carolina Power and ! {taght Company and also to get all informa-tion that we possibly could, either favorable or unfavorable, to this power company. After calling on the mayor, president of the Uiamber of Commerce, numbers of merchants and numbers of prominent citizens, we jre mde«5d ^.d toreport that there was not a dissenting voice against them. Every one vif** 5thc JTOtter7n* °* their service and by comparative figures we could see that ! & Z{ ,atT of were Betting their lights for, approximately speak “1*2® ^(^^tweare payinft. They assured us that they had and were liv «P to “mr contract and were giving the very best service regardless of expense. At toe tune when a number of towns were out of lights on account of water the Carolina Pbwer and Light Company were doing their duty and were furnishing lights by hauling ^ “d tu*m the “tJ^th lights. The citizens are never in- | y eonvenienced and always have lights and cot rent. F or the number of years the Carolina H Pbwer and Light Company have been in Raleigh they lyve done much to bring indus . £ere* cooperating with the otizenship and a ways being honorable in their dealing* irith the public and we do not hesitate m stating that we think the citizens will do the Ij^itthingby ratifying the sale of die plant on the 13th of December and tldnkit or! iH >any. lSST* m°VC* f0r *"•tOWn °f Dunn to 8* on die Carolina Power and Light Com Youra truly, J. W. WHrm-EAD. R. J PARKER, B. M. BREWER, E J. HUDSON. B. O. TOWN ’ . # . SEND, Committee. * i A. ‘Ill
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