Show Wi il I 1 I f 0 If l j r r v lY 4 t fo t t l' l J J- J L fr 7 f y I iJ 1 J Jh f fJ 1 h 1 ly 41 tf r r A 4 Municipally Owned Public U Utility tl 1 Ity i i W years or a a little more have itI L lW IL I elapsed since the question of j to be agitated agit 5 municipal ownership began ort ate d. d in L Logan I il ogan the of city An investigation n on part ll Iii 1 J council resulted in In the call of an elect election election elec elec- t I the city tion as to whether or not i l' l should undertake to build and operate i i an electric lighting plant j This outlay required the issue of W t bonds The Th city was was already heavily bonded but it was believed that an additional ad l t tx r effort in that direction might for the city a paying proposition proposition r procure tion that in the future would relieve i the people of so much taxa taxation ion About bout two-thirds two of the vote cast favored the bonding bonding- After the election nothing was left for the council to do but ri procure the money The thus roved inadequate to build as ashe j provided proved should be done council thought the he I because it was plain that the whole of ofa hi a Logan River must be applied in order to make good the right to the water determined to Accordingly it was J j b build the entire plant doubled ca capacity every very every feature being large enough nough to torun yet only one onet t run two generators generator was then installed The cost coat of the plant as it now stands compared with the amount of power generated by the one unite is j i therefore high but a few thousand dollars more will win install the second r unit double the capacity of the plant and nd mak the investment gilt edged The light has been running about eight months and during that time l lights have been out only about forty minutes minutes-a a phenomenal record The quality of the service has been excelled The plant has paid over overrunning overrunning r running nning expenses from the beginning ing and is now recording nearly a thousand month to the good l 1 dollars a About four thousand lights besides motors are now being carried and the business is growing daily The streets J were never so well lighted there being about the city This now strewn t soo j is more than were in use before I L erected the t e plant was If all aU the citizens would patronize 1 i. i M j i t their h. h own p plant 1 an t t there h ere is IS no reason w why h. h y P it would not pay per year above bove running expenses Logan city's portion of the whole taxation born by people amounts to only about twelve thousand each year so this investment will do much to meet that amount of taxation This venture is no no experiment in which Logan is foremost The operation of m municipal electric lighting plants by cities in England has become the fixed and settled policy of the nation Out of a list of cities there re reported reported reported re- re ported in the Municipal Journal only one has failed to make money money over overrunning overrunning overrunning running expenses and of them show good earnings In America the number of municipally municipally pally owned plants approaches a th thousand thousand thou thou- usand u- u sand and these report almost the same phenomenal proportion of success Eight Fight or nine cities of Utah are operating operating op Ope their own plants at the prese present t time with great satisfaction In every city where municipal ownership ownership owner owner- ship has been undertaken there have been people not at first converted to the principle but in most cases they have supported their own plants when they were in operation It is possible that th there re is influence enough at work to day to injure our own undertaking but is it wise on the part of a few to do so |