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Show To the Taxpayers of Mt. Pleasant Lost a lady's purse containing rnoney. Finder return to this office and receive reward. The city owes on Water Works Bonds $18,500.00 On Notes 11,000.00 The School District owes on Bonds 35,000.00 On Notes 12,000.00 Total $76,500.00 The City Council is now asking you to vote to bond the city for $38,000 more. If vou do so we will owe $114,500.00." The interest on this will be about $6,000.00 a year. The city hired Mr. Lyman to give them an estimate on the cost of a plant in Pleasant creek canyon he reported it would cost $32,000.00 to include all three forks and that it would produce three thousand 16-candle 16-candle power lights. Your experience experi-ence in the past teaches you that estimates are generally from 25 to 100 per cent too low so you can be sure it will cost $40,000.00. The city intends to pay the Light Company 15,000 for the old plant. Then it I Will have to put wire and poles all uver town which wiil cost $5,000 more which makes altogether $60,-000. $60,-000. But the plan now is to use only one fork of the stream hence it will produce pro-duce but 2,000 lights, to cost $23,000.-00, $23,000.-00, add to this 15,000 for the old plant and $5,000.00 to wire the town and it amounts to $43,000.00. Now 38,000.00 is all the city can bond for. How will they get the balance. If the estimate is 25 per cent too low where will the other eleven thousand dollars come from? As the old plant has about fifteen hundred lights: How much better off will we be? This makes the fourth bond election we have had in about a year. Isn't it time to call a halt? If you think so come out and vote against the bonds on Juiy 13th between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m., at the City Hall. We propose the fallowing plan--; 1st. Defeat the bond issue. 2nd, Appoint three men by the city, three by the company. They toselecta seventh and this committee to appraise and agree on the price to be paid the oid company on a 5-year installment plan at 6 per cent interest. inter-est. 3rd. The city to contract with the Teluride Company for power at 3 cents ur less per Kilowat and sell it to the citizens at the present price viz: 7c per Kilowat, or give the old company a long tinyj contract at present rates and let them put in a new plant, or buy their current Irom another company. J. D. Simpson, S. E. Jensen, A. C. Madsen, J. B. Staker, S. D. Longs-dorf, Longs-dorf, W. D. Candland, Andrew Mad-sen, Mad-sen, L. C. Rasmussen, Wm. Olson, C. W. Anderson, Committee. |