Show OUR EXAMPLE GOOD we clip the following from a protest filed with the mayor at 0 ogden by real estate men against the granting of a franchise to a private water works corporation it shows that our light Is set on a hill why cannot ogden be as successful in m managing public utilities brbgham city this town of people owns it s own water works own irrigating system its own electric le light and power plant it h lately made a contract to electric light and power to the og pen den s sm melters elters it Is stated that in a few years the revenue derived from public utilities will enable brigham city to reduce its tax levy bwy to a minimum 1 the city of orden ogden with vastly better belter water wate raud and power facilities than brigham city has tamely submitted to have thera them pass into the hands of a corporation who administer them for private profit instead of the public good if the officers of ogden city had faced this quest question lon courageously seventeen years ago the rity would now own its water works the power plant at the mouth of the canyon and its own electric lighting plant we would not now be dickering with an oregon corporation for elou water to keep our business blocks blacks from burning we remain A A 1 J J BRUMMIT 1 I T ALVORD ommittee committee |