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Show CITIZENS WILL VOTE ON WATER CONTRACT Special to The Tribune. PRICE, Feb. 12. A mass meeting of citizens is called for tomorrow night to i discuss the proposed water contract be- ! tween a corporation at present represented represent-ed by Attorney A. C. Ellis, Jr., of Salt Lake and this city. The new company proposes to divert the water owned by Price at a point above Colton and pipe it down to the city-reservoirs. city-reservoirs. Such a plan is said to be the only solution of the water problem of Castlegate, Helper, Price and the Rio Grande railway, all of which are now taking tak-ing their water direct from the Price river. This water has been condemned by state officials. The cost, exclusive of distribution, is to be 8 cents per thousand thou-sand gallons for 500,000 gallons and 7 cents after that point. Three hundred thousand gallons per day Is to be the minimum. Local parties contend that in the summer sum-mer Price uses a million gallons per day and that the price in the contract is excessive, ex-cessive, ' The promoters say that the line! will cost $150,000. The Utah Fuel company at Castlegate and the Rio Grande are said to have already signed tentative contracts. con-tracts. Many citizens of Price want to ask the legislature for a special act allowing the city to increase its bond issue so that' this city can construct its own pipe line, and a committee will probably be named tomorrow night to visit the legislature. An election to vote on the contract is called for March 10. |