Show OLD CITY administration CHARGES d S misrepresentation richfield utah march 26 1914 editor reaper wre notice considerable discussion relative to the merits and demerits of the new city water ordinance and while it is 13 not our purpose to discuss this question we are forced to be interested its some ot of the things used in connection with the matter members of the tha present administration tra tion and their employees are using as aa an argument in justification of the new ordinance the statement that the old council had bad to BO badly involved the city in debt that some acme extreme measure was waa nece necessary iary esary in order to got the city out of this ema cm harassment in the issue of your paper of january 1914 you published the sworn report of mrs lira matilda dalton city howing chowing the condition of the city treasury at the close of 0 her administration which said report showed the entire in the city to be 25 of this amount is the old city bonds bonda that have been running for ten years and with which tho the old city council had nothing to do so EO that the addition il incurred in the improvements made by the former citi catl council amounts timo only to 2851 25 when wo we ta talo a into consideration the buil building dinc of the now new water tent installation of the pun pur ping riling plant and the laying of oe new water mama mains at a cost coat of over SIU and purchasing of a large tract of land west of the city which could now he be sold for double the price we paid for it together with the general improvements improver made and the running of the affairs of the city this small email amount is very insignificant and the parties who are circulating the story of he be awful indebtedness indebted neos of our city are either woefully ignorant of actual conditions or are willfully falsifying the present council finds no trouble in borro borrowing money on the warrants of the city but we very ery distinctively recall that ten years ago when ex mayor heber C christensen Christen aen ex mayor jas jaa M peterson councilman arthur henrie henna and others first came into the city council the condition of the city was such that they could not borrow a dollar on its warrants but thu the members of the council had bad to sign personally on the paper of the city in order to get necessary funds fund mr editor this article is not written in any spirit of ill feeling or contention but merely that the people may know the true conditions and that at last fame come of the slander alander on oui things which have been said of the tild old council may be refuted tho the members of the present administration d received the majority of the votes of the people at the last city citi election and so sn far as we are concerned they shall have our support but we feel that L ich city add ada should be satisfied toi to stand on its own record with out attempting to bi bo little the acts of other JAS 1 I AS M na PETERSON KOBERT HOBERT D YOUNG 11 J HANSEN VIRGINIUS BEAN JOSEPH A ENCE |