Excerpt from The Water Question: Address Immediately on taking office negotiations were Opened with the Bay Cities Water Company, keeping in mind that it would be better for Oakland if there should bea strong rival, to the Contra Costa Water Company. The City thereby would reap the advantage of competition in the sale to it of a water plant and could make terms with the corporation that would do the most for the City for the least money. Negotiations were also opened with other corporations and individuals claiming to own ...
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Excerpt from The Water Question: Address Immediately on taking office negotiations were Opened with the Bay Cities Water Company, keeping in mind that it would be better for Oakland if there should bea strong rival, to the Contra Costa Water Company. The City thereby would reap the advantage of competition in the sale to it of a water plant and could make terms with the corporation that would do the most for the City for the least money. Negotiations were also opened with other corporations and individuals claiming to own a water supply. The advisability of buying out the Contra Costa Water Company if the pur chase could be made at anything like a fair value was kept in mind all the time. Personally I have at all times been willing, and I think the members of the Council had the same views, that it would be advisable to buy out the Contra Costa Water Company even if we had to pay a full million of dollars more than the property was really worth. What the actual value of that property is will appear further on. But, what ever its value, I am, and always have been, willing to pay a large bonus to rid ourselves of that corporation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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