| Show MAKES PRICE A LIGHT proposition irrigated lands company proposes water power from their ditch john Y smith of the irrigated lands co of salt lake city was here during last week and has to offer to the city of price a scheme whereby the city will gain in expenses in furnishing light for the town he say says hh his cum pany has spent eighty 80 thousand dollars in erecting a high line ditch about two miles in length between price and helper and carries an immense amount of water and he pro poses that the city abandon the steam power and accept the water power which thia this dam darn t v ill III provide his proposition is to the effect that a water wheel can be erected along the dam and the power from it will not only furnish power for price but it will be adequate for electricity for all the towns in the neighborhood and that at a lower cost than can possibly be secured by th the ue of steam mr smith says he will join the members of a stock company orwill sell outright to the city or a corporation for the exceeding low figure of forty five hundred dollars he ile also says if the town could set get a contract from some coal company that they would furnish them coal free and the railroad company would haul it free to the plant then the town could not afford to put in a steam plant on account of the expense of operating auch such a plant on the other hand the expense of installing a plant to be operated by water power is very little if any more and then after being installed the expense is scarcely anything while a steam plant would c cost oat possibly three hundred dollars a month to operate it water power is taking the lead t I 1 ovel the country and if the town does not take up this proposition then they leave it open for acme one else to come in and install a water power system with very little expense and result in a dangerous competition to the other steam power plants in this section of the country |
