Show MUNICIPAL UTILITIES we 1 cannot annot retrain refrain from taking note not 0 ot of the action recently tiled filed with the public utilities commission of the state ot of utah by acost a host of the most prominent manufacturing industries in the state of utah prote protesting g against the bates rates charged by a big corporation which furnishes electrical energy we here in brigham city are not particularly interested in the case tor for we do not have to neither do we purchase electrical energy from the big corporation but the case is interesting to this community in view 0 ot f the experience brigham city has had with municipally ici PY pally owned utilities one ot of the most profitable be ot of which Is the electro electric light and power plant it la Is recalled that when the matter ot of re bonding the city for or the purpose ot of rebuilding the electric light plant was up tor for the action ot of the electorate tho the argument was frequently advanced by y those opposed to the move that it would be cheaper to purchase electrical energy from the big private corporation and spare posterity the burden P po or ration ot of refunding the bonds and the city tho expense of operating a municipal plant some mighty good argument so BO tar far as figures were concerned was presented to justify the stand taken by those who I 1 felt that it would be a mistake for the m municipality to bond and rebuild but the ra majority ot of the citizens were convinced that it isa Is a good thing tor for city to own and operate its public utilities and so they voted the bond that that action wa was s the wise abne one to take would seem to be more than continued confirmed by reading the list of 0 industries in salt lake and ogden which have attached their names to the protest against the rates charged by the corporation po ration which supplies them with energy rates which are tar far in excess of those which users of 0 brigham Brig hain city municipal electric energy have to pay when a public utility can call be constructed and operated so that it returns a profit to the municipality and at the same time gives service to the people at a reasonable rate then that utility is a real blessing to the community such a public utility is the brigham city E electric light and power plant which Is now undergoing reconstruction when the work is completed this colu community will possess a public i blessing that will be tar far and away more valuable than the mere cash cost of the concern and mighty few citizens will now feel sorry that the city decided to rebuild the plant in order to develop the maximum energy in box elder creek creeh |