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Show t nii!;i:ii nuuiu, m.. idh.iMi liU'idiHHI Hjlrr H..rL. B.ni.1, at li .-r roil. Kio- lalilr. 'I :e Idighaii, L'ily uat.-r work-I. work-I. .d- an- -old. 'fin .-.ii-- ll;i- e I . ; nil II latt-d la.-t .- uui.d.y. 'I'll- pnreha-ers, and in fact all who lli.d.-r-tand the facts ill the e.i e. ih el.u-e this one uf the best, il not The b, -t bond ileal ever mad-- iii the Territory uf Utah. Nu eiioruinii bonuses were paid. No large agents' commissions Tin- doled sold -Hal:" that is, at oar at the actual face value. No .lir(llitS oil f:iee Value. 'I'i.i- U' s.-melliin' exLrairili-' exLrairili-' nary in the hi.-tui-y of city l.onil -ah'H. A neater sale eouhl imt p.ssilily have Keen made under the ln'tst. faVirahle e'l reUinstanCeS. ; Who are we to thank, hut our euterpri.-iiitf Mavor auil energetic Cnuneil for litis exeelh-nt finaneial ! -al? Ituasoulv hy a shrewd dnd .iiiii! ipH.rtiine turning of a hair, we niiht say, whieh saved the itv li-oiu two to throe thousand I. , liars agents' commissions in the ih'al. Hut keen business tuet and skillful skill-ful engineering won the day. A little circumstance, which it is best not to relate here, broke the earners back and the bonds were snatched up with unusual avidity. Saturday, the $27,1 KX) water works bonds were sold to Blair & Co., Hankers, Wall Street, New York (itv, through their agent, t.leo. F. I'cnhalc. Mayor Joseph IL Jensen and Clerk (ieo. L. Clraebl, Jr., sim-tl for the city. There were twenty-seven $1,000 bonds, sold at ( per cent., interest to be paid semi-annually. Illair it Co, will now pay the .City of llrihain $9,000 cash on March 81st; $0,000 April 30th and $i,!K0 May .'ijsl. Some of our habitually incredulous incredu-lous people may say: ''Oh, pshaw, Lbnl sale is not so good ; Salt Lake's bonds sold at 5 per cent.; Oden's for so and so; Provo's for ! this or that; Logan's for six." Hut, good unbelievers, if you j would but probe down beneath the l surface and figure on the enor- i i nious agents' commissions paid by these respective cities to make their -ah s, or the astounding bonuses paid on the side in the dark, that the good word might go forth to the world that the city's bonds sold for 5 per cent, to give that eitv a front rank in conTmereial eireles, then you would turn round land unite with the rest of us in , I'onral ulat ing the Council a nd i commending their financiering ! abilities. That our representatives have made an exceptionally good stile, none ean siainsay. They worked j nobly and ileserve great credit for j the unqualified success of their labors. That Hrigham City's credit is rated anvmg those of the foremost cities in the Territory, Ter-ritory, w as fully n 1 1 est ed by j the eagerness with whieh the big J New York banker.:, who have pur-j pur-j ehased most of the bonds recently s dd in the Territory, caught them up at so libera a bargain. |