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Show CHICAGO PACKERS 10 BUILD WATERWORKS Can Supply Consumers in Limited Lim-ited Area Ear Below the city's Prices. CHICAGO. Dec. 21 A plan for .i privately-owned system of waterwoiks Inside In-side of and independent of the municipal ownership water plant Is now i-ing worked out by the slock yards interest, it contemplates a plant supplying nearly one billion gallons of water a month. Water at Less Rates. The promise Is that If the franchise can be ohtalned the water will bo furnished fur-nished to the company's consumers for not more than PA cents a thousand gallons, gal-lons, and probably 2 cents. Th- city's rale to wholesale users Is now I cents and runs from thni to pi . . nta to those who buy less quantities. Th- city 19 lulling money on the 4-cent rate. The advantage the proposed company-would company-would have over the city would be In the fact that It WDUld rtupply bul a limited territory, with the water close at hand, and this territory would contain .-..me of the largest water users in Chicago. Packers Get Reduction. As far as the figures have been made out they show Unit water tan he furnished fur-nished at from I cents t" 9k cents a thousand BHllons. This would mean a loss In supplying the small consumers, but that would he a small pari of the l.iisln. ss. 'llu i luii Is that the large packers shll OS th Stockholders and the would get their pioiits ..ut of the i-- ductlou of tlm price the have to pa for v. at. r. |