Show MUNICIPAL OR U K PRIVATE OR CORPORA CORPORATE OWNERSHIP WHICH next month february to be exact the taxpayers of price will say by their votes whether hether or not the town shall be bonded in the sum of nine thousand dollars for nn an electric lighting 11 plant at price as almost everywhere else when such plants are first thought of and plans arc are being acm wolken out the question comes up as to which is best for all the tile people municipal or private or corporate ownership below v is an editorial from the sacramento gala cala bee will not prove uninteresting to local readers of the advocate at this time there I 1 much dissatisfaction among all classes of people iu this city the electric lighting service somo some of this relates to the rates charged as to which there is more or less dispute but the universal complaint for which there is only loo much evident cause is that consumers are not getting as much light as they pay for no matter what the rate the ordinary incandescent lamp arn p is is supposed to give as much light as sixteen candles candle but frequently its feeble radiance more resembles i that of one candle than sixteen this sort of sixteen to one service has long exasperated the tile community and the board of trustees should take vigorous action in the matter it is only late at night if at all that consumers get as much light as the nominal candlepower of the incandescent lamps call for the trustees should not only f fix ix the rates for electric lights for all purposes es but also provide for regular evening tests of the strength of the current in order that failure to furnish the proper service may be preci precisely gely determined made public and acted upon by the authorities originally this city was noted for the cheapness and excellence of its electric lighting the initial company had a laige excess of power for all local uses and maintained a steady brilliancy on all its lighting circuits since that time the cost of lighting has been greatly advanced although the service has become inferior seemingly the reason for this change for the worse is that the local company along with a former competitor in this field has become part of an electric trust which diverts to other localities more or less of the current generated at folsom whether or not this be the true explanation and despite the fact that the trust is in a position to provide sacramento with electricity from sources other than folsom when the supply from that quarter fails or is sufficient in the fact remains that the service is bad irregular and factory there is however but one true and radical remedy for this state of or things and that is a municipal lighting plant not only to light the st streets and public squares but also to furnish light for all purposes to every consumer in the city who may apply some gome time ago when the local corporation was exacting a very ery high rate for street lighting and a municipal plant was proposed the corporation greatly reduced its charges to the city so that the public undertaking was abandoned at least for the time being it should sooner or later be taken up and accomplished for the general welfare I 1 there here is as good reason for the city to own and operate an electric lighting system as to provide a water supply all public utilities in fact such as gas water electric lighting and street car service should be under municipal ownership ow and operation the sacramento waterworks have not only given consumers an abundant supply at low rates but have provided a large net income from which a former bonded deut beut was wiped out many such examples ot successful public ownership and operation could be mentioned one of the chief benefits of public ownership and a sufficient reason for forit it everywhere is that it takes out of politics and local government the sinister and corrupting influence of self seeking corporations that was as the chief cauce of the reign of graft in san francisco and the rame same is true to a greater or less extent in all cities I 1 the discovery disco ery of several deanis of coal a few inches to seven s ven feet in thickness in ill the strata of a mountain in ole antarctic Ant artic region and of fossil i evains of conifer trees by lieutenant Shackle tons recent expedition is a N very ery remarkable one and is analogous analae ous to similar aco erps of coal accompanied by bovil foeil imprints of semitropical semi tropical or temperate zone foliage within the northern artic artie circle and in such high altitudes as those of spither ken gen and ind northern NorL hern adlaska Al laska both the coal and tho the fowl foulage go to show duat a ver er different climate than now once pre prevailed ailed in those regions a 11 climate comparable to that of europe and the middle and smith southern states of north america ot 01 even warmer to account for such warm conditions is as difficult as to account for the present great icecap at the poles and that of the glacial epoch whether we ae u a geological or an ain astronomical cause of these thebe strange phenomena such as local subsidence and elevation el cation of land at the poles or that the axes of the earth hm have e changed places with regard to the their nr position and unit distance from the sun un and its heat the facts to to be explained arc are at both poes poles an unde undertaker rt h about the on ony y business man who gives give 3 complete satisfaction to users of his goods it takes a bunch of money moncy to get a lying flying machine money aloney always als did have wings ings we notice that several utah papers have lowered their rate to one daar per year says the green river dispatch despite the fact that print paper and all other commodities used in the manufacture of newspapers has nearly doubled in price aich which shows plainly that the publishers have never installed an efficient cost system or they would know that they are losing money on such a proposition they will quickly learn their mistake oie of these days when the supply house collector gets busy it is noticeable that the papers who resort to price cutting as their principal bid lid for patronage are found in the opposition second paper or spite paper class usually one dollar a year is moie than they are worth A local paper that worth one dollar and a half per annum worth taking out of the postoffice post office government receipts for the month of december amounted to 18 while the expenditures amounted to so that there was an axce v receipts over disbars disbursements cements amounting to the receipts for the first six months of the fiscal year amounted to an increase of over 35 as compared with the corresponding sp portion of the preceding fiscal ear the expenditures amounted to 3 63 an increase of about over the like period of the fiscal year 1908 9 there was an excess of ordinary disbursements over receipts amounting to for the six months whereas the deficit for the corresponding sp pon ding period of the preceding fiscal year was 83 commercial failures in the united states during the year 1909 according to statistics compiled by duns review were in number with defaulted liabilities amounting to this is a much more satisfactory exhibit than was provided aided by either of the t 0 pieced te ng years comparing with failures in 1908 with an indebtedness of and while the insolvencies in 1907 were smaller in number the effect is more than offset by the in amount of liabilities the im improvement prove last year was greater in the last half than in the first six months liabilities in the last half of the year amounting to only 42 percent per cent of the yearly early total the advocate finds this in the price correspondence to the deseret evening news the to town n board at its last meeting decided to call an election of the theoders oters on february to determine whether hether they should bond the town for nine thousand dollars to install a an electrical electric light plant although some private enterprises have desired to install a plant the people gener generally illy feel that the to town n should own its own there will practically be no opposition to the bonds tex rickard prize fight promoter and J E langford manager of saltair Sal tair say the big johnson jef fries slugging match is to be pulled off at saltair Sal tair july ith next governor william spry who A ho also harvests some ice in this st state ate even in the good old summer time says it NN wont ont and there you are at ninetysix ninety six a kansas canhas man has taken unto himself a wife the great moral and religious refrains from wishing him hin a long life of wedded bliss when a man keep telling what hat he is going lo 10 0 o do e feel inclined to start him on the way ay with ith a little assistance in the rear |